"Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the Department of Defense will offer testosterone deficiency screening for soldiers 30 and older.The US defense secretary unveiled plans for a new screening program for testosterone deficiency among troops that will work to ensure service members have the “right testosterone levels” to perform at their optimal conditions in a video posted to X...“Warfighters” aged 30 and above will undergo annual tests as part of their health assessments, while those under 30 can choose to opt in, Hegseth said. Treatment, including testosterone replacement therapy, is voluntary and aimed at “restoring and optimizing” natural capabilities...Hegseth is not the first member of the Trump administration to address the so-called “crisis” of low testosterone, or “low T”. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the 72-year-old health secretary, has spoken about injecting testosterone as part of his personal “anti-ageing regimen”. In October, he warned, without evidence, that today’s American teenagers have “50% of the testosterone of a 65-year-old man”.Testosterone, and concerns about a shortage thereof, has become a political fixation on the right. Alternative media commentators such as Tucker Carlson have decried a crisis of masculinity in films such as The End of Men, while influencers promote “T-maxxing” and direct-to-consumer testosterone injections...According to research published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, young men are being aggressively targeted online by influencers and wellness companies promoting hormone tests and treatments as essential to being a “real man”, despite screening for low testosterone being medically unwarranted in most people in this age group.
I do hope there is one sane person in the armed forces administration who will understand that half the men in the world have testosterone levels below average.
I predict a wave of young age heart attacks Because of all the damn testosterone those guys will be taking.
ReplyDeleteAnd now the Trump admin supports gender-affirming care! Fascinating.
ReplyDeleteSo, government approved gender affirming care. Got it.
ReplyDeleteSuch comments by the U.S. defence secretary could get people quite cross, dressed as they are in the guise of an insult.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if I have the right testosterone levels to perform at an optimal condition in a video posted to X ... or any other internet platform.
But obviously I do, according to Robert F. Kennedy (who, at a couple of years older than me appears far more weathered) when he says that today's American teenagers have 50% the testosterone of me.
It comes across (no pun intended) as a bit of a compliment.
So, when are they going to test Pete Hegseth? Could this be the reason he hates men that can grow beards?
ReplyDeleteEvery day another bit of crazy comes out of Washington. At one time someone like Pete Hegseth would have been laughable, the satirical creation of a pessimistic screenwriter (anyone remember General Jack D. Ripper?). Today he's not only mainstream, he's running the United States military, for God's sake! I keep praying I'll wake up but the fever dream just keeps on going.
ReplyDeleteWatch as their necks sort of lump up and hair over, and their knuckles start to drag. "Clubbing" will revert to a dating term from 10,000 years ago....
ReplyDeleteHegseth has an unhealthy obsession of men. I'm sure Freud had a term for men like Hegseth...latent homosexual? Or was it Cro Magnan...?