Isn’t that sweet? Pete Hegseth is imposing mandatory testosterone testing, but is not requiring testosterone supplements, yet. As we all know, good soldiers are in a constant roid-rage, and can be recognized by their chronic bacne.
This policy is being enabled by the ongoing corruption of science by our government.
Hegseth’s announcement comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other Trump administration officials are moving to make it easier for doctors to prescribe testosterone. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration proposed easing prescribing limits on testosterone gels, pills, patches and injections.
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Last year, the FDA removed a boxed warning about possible risks of heart attack and stroke from the drugs.
Let’s ignore all our prior medical knowledge!
…current medical guidelines generally recommend against blanket testing of testosterone levels. Typically, doctors are advised to discuss testosterone therapy with men who have troubling symptoms and documented low levels of the hormone on two separate blood tests.
Testing for testosterone is challenging because levels of the hormone fluctuate throughout the day. Accurate testosterone readings are typically measured in the morning after fasting.
I have never been tested for my testosterone levels. I know that, for sure, they have almost certainly declined since my 20s, because that’s typical, but I have never experienced problems of the sort that might prompt testing. You can tolerate a wide range of variation without noticing any effects, so barring real symptoms, doping with T is just coping with diminished masculinity of a psychological sort.
But OK, let’s test everyone, new recruits and old generals, and let’s test men and women alike. Pete might be surprised when he discovers that trans men are already pumping themselves up with testosterone, maybe making them better soldiers than AMAB men.
Don’t bother testing Pete, though. He’s so insecure that he’s probably taking testosterone supplements already. Also, he’s a pig, scarcely human.
Hegseth has previously said he does not believe women should hold combat roles and that those positions should be based on the “highest male standard.” He has blocked some military promotions for women or fired female leaders since becoming Pentagon leader.
That alone warrants firing him.
There are so many interferences and variables with testosterone testing in cis men… heterophilic antibodies, fatty liver, high sex hormone binding globular, daily fluctuations, ejaculation frequency, T2DM… that it’s essentially useless to monitor unless there is some underlying pathophysiology. Supplements will also make the good ol’ gonads smaller too.
Someone should tell Hegseth that if he wants big balls, supplements are the complete opposite of what should be done. Although it does explain a lot with him…
So, then, the East German track and field teams of the 1980s should be on recruiting posters, right? Oh, wait, many of them were women so they’re not appropriate role models even for this distorted vision of what makes for “good soldierin’.” And long-term side effects? We’ll just exclude those from the future VA budget by denying service connection, since making up for one’s “organic inadequacies” is not related to military service, right?
One wonders if there’s going to be a sudden rise in “chemically-sophisticated fitness consultants” right outside base main gates.
pigsbreath is such a manly man. Someone should make him watch the video of Monty Python’s Lumberjack song!
Wait, on second thought, lets have all pigsbreath’s ‘war fighters’ load up on supplements and steroids. Maybe, then, we can test whether or not they really do cause heart attack and stroke! OOH, sciencey!
I suspect this is a further step in Hegseth’s program of removing women from the military, particularly from combat and command positions, and building a corps of male pigs who will dutifully do the bidding of the fascist leaders.
Perhaps they do, but I’m surprised they aren’t prominently citing the Israeli meta-analysis that was just released indicating that male testosterone levels have declined 54% in the last 50 years.