Isn’t this Gender affirming care? /s
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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It's a bunch of men about to find out that testosterone isn't that important, or about to become very neurotic and insecure about it.
Personally I think we should also test their blood flow responses when shown certain images, and do Kinsey scale testing as well.
Really shock them with some self-knowledge and hate for governments overstepping their boundaries.
I am almost entirely hairless below my neck and have a full head of hair in my mid 40s.
I am probably on the low end of the testosterone scale.
I'm also 5'6".
I never let it stop me from being an absolute horn dog and doing pretty darn well if I do say so myself.
Happiness is the goal
Everything else is nonsense
very neurotic and insecure
$100 on neurotic and insecure!
the military already covered care for testosterone deficiency as part of its free healthcare
That's socialism!?!
Standing in line to eat the same food, giving your all to protect/help your comrades when they are vulnerable and can't fight for themselves, uniforms, sacrificing your individuality for the greater good.
Every Army ever is communism.
The US military is the most socialist organization in that country.
Completely unsarcastically, yes. So are the "Full Mast Men's Mega Growth XXL Hormone Treatment" ads you see everywhere
The serious response I have is that the end-goal matters. It doesn’t seem like screening for a medical condition that involves hormones is automatically gender-affirming.
No, no. Just announcing the policy makes Pete feel more like a man's manly man.
Screening? No not really; but they’re giving TRT to soldiers who aren’t at their peak.
So it’s gender-affirming care.
There's a straightforward explanation for this.
Pete Hegseth is a fucking idiot.
I think this is an attempt to further justify eliminating senior military that oppose unlawful orders. You make less T as you age. Plenty of 30 year old, lead brained, country bumpkin dumbfuck MAGAts in entry level officer positions they can randomly make generals.
My opinion is it’s gayforward projection.
should begin mental evaluations for the leadership
believing in pseudoscience = banned for life
Now I want to join the military, so Hegseth can suck my dick every year.
My man raise your standards.
For women service members too?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a new Pentagon initiative mandating annual testosterone screenings for all military service members aged 30 and older to maintain a "tactical advantage." Troops who test low will be offered voluntary testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), a move the Pentagon chief framed as keeping the military on the "leading edge of lethality" while nicknaming the Pentagon "The High-T Department of War."
Troops who test low will be offered voluntary testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)
So... Hrt?
A 30 year old service member has over a decade of experience. This is orders of magnitude more valuable and important than whatever pseudo science bullshit this alcohol-brained dumbass is pushing there.
I'm guessing a 30 year old service member is far less likely to be in an active combat role (special forces aside) and more likely to be doing administration, leadership, teaching, logistics, etc.
You know, roles where keeping a cool head is especially important.
I thought TRT messes up your body's ability to produce testosterone naturally. Not good.
Testosterone production drops quite significantly over time. We generally accept hormonal therapy for women often for a majority of their life; it’s not necessarily something to condemn. However, it’s not really well developed (shots every few weeks makes the testosterone level ridiculously high for a while and then drop to pretty low levels as the date for the next dose approaches) and there’s a really good chance they’ll overprescribe on the “manly drugs”. There’s a good number of side effects, including being a dumb-dumb, as Pete demonstrated.
Exogenous testosterone does (often permanently) drop natural production. If they’re signing up for a lifetime of free TRT, it’s probably not really a concern. I somehow doubt that they will, and suspect that the low T is “not service related as there was a demonstrable low T level 10 years ago.”
I was chuckling until I saw the community. But then, you really couldn't make this up.
So does this include selective service eligibility?
The defense department plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) to any service members who show low levels of the hormone.
Lol, Us military is composed of the manliest of men, who are totally not insecure.
Have they discovered that low T-levels are the cause in their performance against Iran? Also will retiring military personnel get bras as a farewell gift, since after a long career of TRT-treatment, their bodies can't produce any testosterone naturally?
So this is the step before he starts mandatory steroid use for the 'weaklings'?
Who needs a functioning endocrine system anyways?
That shits overrated. Give our special little boys all the gear.
Huh, I figured he'd just mandate every male to receive additional testicle implants every 5 or 10 years.
"Hey sarn't, how many balls in are you now?"
"7 balls, Private. That's why I keep my trigger finger taped down all the time we're not weapons free."
US soldiers aren't violent enough, some more T will fix em right up.
US soldiers are cowards, not brave risk takers or supersoldiers, but they don't need to looking how US fights. The whole myth (inflated, but not totally ungrounded) that even allow US military to even operate is the idea that they are so technologically ahead to everybody that nobody is in any actual risk of dying or getting hurt and military is just some field trip for poor kids to get college. I guess it's kinda of a bravery when your wars are all air campaigns and your bravest and most machho soldier is some F35 pilot firing standoff munitions to some school 200km away.
When it comes to wars US has all the freedom to choose target countries, that it thinks are weak, softened by sanctions and intelligence undermining, and not ready to put up much of fight. It has always been this way, and US isolated geography gives them this freedom to pick their battles, US never needs to play defense or think about long term consequences, since "war" is always something happens to somebody else somewhere else. The same goes for political imperative of American wars, any amount of bodies that can been seen coming back in coffins is too much.
Yeah, even outside of the jokes about giving Testosterone. They will release the numbers and whether it is low or high it will reflect poorly about our military. This is not how kegsbreath thinks this will work out for him.