I am getting “low T energy” from this guy
So this is the step before he starts mandatory steroid use for the ‘weaklings’?
Along with meth, of course.
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?
Let’s check your testosterone, girly man
should begin mental evaluations for the leadership
believing in pseudoscience = banned for life
Let me guess, Pistol Pete is going to do the assessments personally, by cupping the balls of only the most manly of soldiers, because he can judge the amount of testosterone by the weight.
RFK, Jr showed them how to do it, he’s been doing it all his life, and they all had a hilarious night in the Oval Office, practicing on each other. Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller had the tiniest balls, and cried about it. It was hilarious.
Good times, good times…
I can’t prove you wrong, so I have decided that this is what really happened.
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.
he does have a glamour room all to himself.
You can’t just use the same explanation for everything.
When it stops working as an explanation for his behavior then we can switch to his drinking problem
This is so fucking gay
That dude ain’t right
This is becoming so absurd. I’m starting to suspect that they are all hard core undercover communists, trying to make the revolution happen by doing the dumbest possible thing while pretending to be republicans.
I call that the ole Faux Nicholas & Wilhelm Gambit .
I’ve learned recently that I’m low-T and have had indicative symptoms all my life, and it may even have factored into my major depression.
And though my endocrinologist recommends replacement therapy, I’m genuinely afraid I’ll turn into Pete Hegseth.
Before you get your next tattoo, just double check that it’s not more than “just a cool looking skull”.
it can cause low libido too, if they reccommended its a valid reason to take it.
Another grift. Of course they’re gonna partner with a specific pharma company.
Why are they so enormously homoerotic? If you want to suck a dick, go for it. Grindr is a thing.
So either get railed or fuck your bottoms until they are in heaven.
But god fucking damn it, stop screwing with the world.
Oh, they know very intimately how to use Grindr… they’re just awful people
The military, at least the Marine Corps, was the gayest place I’ve ever been. Homoeroticism runs rampant.
That being said, testing for low T is a big what we to me. I’d say that falls under medical care, and they’re providing it, so good.
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 bullshit 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.”
Isn’t this Gender affirming care? /s
The defense department plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) to any service members who show low levels of the hormone.
Is the /s necessary?
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.
Screening? No not really; but they’re giving TRT to soldiers who aren’t at their peak.
So it’s gender-affirming care.
No, no. Just announcing the policy makes Pete feel more like a man’s manly man.
the military already covered care for testosterone deficiency as part of its free healthcare
That’s socialism!?!
The US military is the most socialist organization in that country.
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.
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.
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.
I had some issues, so I got it tested, and it turns out I’m 0.1 above the threshold for men to get HRT. The absolute lowest “normal” range for men, so they can’t legally help me 😂
For some reason my beard is epic though. Shame I hate having a beard, was planning to get it lasered off. The cosmetic surgeon looked like I suggested killing a puppy and tried to talk me out of it. It’s my face, I don’t care if everyone else likes it prickly and uncomfortable
My mate once waxed his beard. It was painful, hilarious and patchy in equal measures.
I am almost entirely hairless below my neck
Me t…
have a full head of hair in my mid 40s.
… Never mind.
Don’t assume testosterone levels actually map easily to stereotypical traits like that.
I am almost entirely hairless from my neck down and have a full head of hair and the last time my testosterone was tested it was at 1332 when the scale typically tops out at 1100.
I’m in my mid 30s.
You might have androgen insensitivity syndrome, I do not think that I do, as I have recently started growing facial hair. It’s just been a very long and slow process for me.
Happiness is the goal
Everything else is nonsense
very neurotic and insecure
$100 on neurotic and insecure!
Here come the testosterone patches and injections … a tear or two later testicular measurements are made mandatory…
At what point will they realize they’re obsessing over something?
Completely unsarcastically, yes. So are the “Full Mast Men’s Mega Growth XXL Hormone Treatment” ads you see everywhere
