“This is a great big fat ‘Oh, no,’” Anawalt said in reaction to Hegseth’s announcement. “We’re turning the clock back on rational healthcare. … I’m worried about the ethics. I’m worried about the health consequences. I’m worried about unnecessary evaluations, incorrect assessments, and incorrect diagnoses that lead to inappropriate prescriptions of testosterone.”
Is this science news? I’m not asking to be nice. News from USA is such a shitfest, and it sucks when it spreads.
What the hell does testosterone have to do with anything? It’s a hormone, just like any other in the human body. Both men and women produce it. It needs to stay within a healthy range for the body to function properly. Too much is harmful, just as too little is.
MORE MANLY MAN MEN
Man you Americans really are dumb as shit to vote for this in november.
We like our fads
He’s a complete moron that wants to run the military like he is in a cheap 80s B-Movie
It’s that… Gender affirming care?
It’s closer to gender and health wrecker do it’s probably in line with Trump policy, except that it reduces fertility
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I don’t give them a year before ranks are determined by balls size and weigh.
Exogenous testosterone usually leads to balls shrinking.
There are going to be excruciating decisions for military personel in the years to come…
Closeted tanuki furries are destined to obtain the highest of ranks.
Damn bro
An over-fixation on “manliness” and “heroism” in the military is also standard fascism playbook. Everyone’s made up to be a hero for their country, no matter if true or not. This sort of propaganda-fueled glorification of soldiers and war maybe helps recruitment of future soldiers for whatever future war the fascists are going to start. That’s probably the only upside.
It also lets you shout down any criticism with “that man is a HERO how DARE you accuse him of anything”
They have 2 reasons to do this:
- To drug the soldiers.
- To put the blame of failure on individuals.
The purpose is to have an army of cannon fodder when they take on NATO and to push through the inevitable failure when doing so.
Ah yes, I served in the bacne and rage unit.
They’re not expecting anybody to live long enough to be able to say that.
Just wait. In another 10 years (if we’re still around by then), the VA will be ignoring a ton of testicular cancer cases in veterans.
Funny how they’re suddenly fine with gender-affirming care …
Quoting myself so I don’t have to keep rewriting it:
This isn’t gender affirming care, it’s gender coercive care. Forcing people without symptoms to get a test for low testosterone is clearly pressuring people to “fix” their T levels, regardless of whether that makes sense for them. If it was about health they’d let their doctors address it on an as needed basis.
Are they gonna have a random piss test for it or can a soldier just pop a Total-T the day before their annual eval and pass with flying colors?
Yeah, it’s that thing that conservative media and politicians have been lying about. Saying that children go to school one gender and are forced to change their gender. So that’s a lie. It never happened. But now, conservatives are doing the exact thing that they were so concerned about before.
What is it that they say, every accusation is a confession?
conversion therapy but they’re converting people into himbos
Himbos are lovable. They’re converting them into blind rage machines like themselves
nothing will put fear in your enemies like declaring your army needs more testosterone…
It just means that Hegseth really likes hanging out with manlier men…For reasons.
mandatory penis inspections & taste tests are next
Wait, are you telling me the urinalysis guy wasn’t supposed to do that?
he was, but only if he took you out for a nice dinner first
It wasn’t exactly frowned upon
Clearly these men have convinced themselves that they aren’t manly enough, whatever the fuck that means to these losers. Conservatives love inventing things to be scared about just throw it on the pile…
Have you seen kegsbreath exercise? It’s legendary! It’s absolutely the reason he wants more military men to get loaded up on the T, so they can be just like him.
Nope. Can’t stand looking at him. I’m immediately hit with the smell of cheap whiskey and drakkar noir. Eugh
Nothing like giving your soldiers an insecurity that they’re not manly enough and that they have to take a prescription for it.
I’m sure that won’t have any psychological consequences on the battlefield.
yea.
the fucking stupidity and incompetence of everyone he appoints is mind boggling
there will be more suicides, and no one will do anything about it
And it’d be the most tantalizing target in the supply line, like the Jem Hadar’s “Ketracel White” (from ST:DS9). But why bother? I’ve had numerous Endocrinologists say no to me because they were of the opinion, it’d make my ball shrink.
But why bother? I’ve had numerous Endocrinologists say no to me because they were of the opinion, it’d make my ball shrink.
Obviously you should take large doses of estrogen to make them bigger!
Taking them out will be so easy. Just get darts for those massive balls, and play Bloons Tower Defense in real life.
Weren’t they also eunochs?
I am suddenly reminded of The Longest Yard movie where they gave the guards a bunch of estrogen.
What would estrogen do to a cis male I wonder.
Same thing it does to a trans woman.
What this is, is another ridiculous ploy by Beta-cuck Hegseth to have homo-erotic fantasies about his big burly, tough macho men in tight uniforms.
Just get drunk again, Pete, and come out already!
Seriously, how do we let them know we know and it’s okay? Holy shit.
You can’t, because of the level of cognitive dissonance coming out has with the maga agenda. He’s so deep in the closet you’d have to make a stop in Narnia for gas and a map to get there.
And thanks to his ogre of a boss, gas is pretty expensive right now, so…
Wait… Maybe that was the plan all along! To make it hard for Hegseth to come out!
Don’t forget the snacks.
In 4 months they’ll be indiscriminately issuing amphetamine stims to service members. I mean, it worked for the SS. Probably. At least for a little while. Actually, I have no idea, but it seems like something Keitel and Goering would be all about to claim they had a chemical edge over all the subhumans occupying their lebensraum.
The US military never stopped using amphetamines. Honestly, the list of militaries that don’t use the stuff is probably shorter then the list that does. The job isn’t exactly conducive to their health in the first place.
I remember an uproar about this topic in the 90’s, but it never stopped. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240314-the-drug-pilots-take-to-stay-awake
Those stims were amphetamines, and they were given to soldiers to be prepared for those Blitzes. It also stunted their humanity and made them literal monsters.
Pervitin was actually methamphetamine!
Ah, short for pervert vitamin. Makes more sense now.
It’s true tho - ex meth addict
You could have just posted a video of Hitler tweaking.
Or twerking
