August 11, 2019

Coming Out | I started to fall more and more

Many really cool things happened to me this year. I think of the best friends I have made, the whole PRIDE month experience, spending holidays with family and trying to live my best life, I couldn’t be happier with the … Read the rest here

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If protecting families really is the goal, the conversation would look much more different than it does today.

It’s always easier to point at someone else’s life than examine your own.

And it’s always easier to tell someone else to do something you couldn’t do yourself (I’m looking at you conversion therapy advocates).

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“Men shouldn’t dress like women.”
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Hegseth announces “The High-T Department of War.”

Under a new policy announced by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, all active-duty service members age 30 and older—including women—will receive annual screenings for low testosterone. Hegseth said his new initiative is designed to help troops “optimize your performance” and maintain the military’s “leading edge of lethality.”

Pete Hegseth has made his opposition to gender-affirming care an integral part of his public rhetoric. And to his base, it’s been a reliable issue that rallies his base. They have been consistent in saying that hormones are dangerous. Gender-affirming care is reckless. The government shouldn’t be involved.

Hegseth says he now wants the military to begin testing service members for low testosterone. His plan is simple: identify who needs treatment, prescribe testosterone when appropriate, and make America’s fighting force stronger.

That’s hormone therapy. It’s also gender-affirming care.

This treatment is intended to help someone better align with the physical characteristics associated with their gender.

Testosterone is testosterone. The difference isn’t the medicine or the science behind it. The only thing that changed was who the patient is.

When a cisgender soldier receives testosterone to restore strength, energy, muscle mass, and the traits we associate with masculinity, Hegseth calls it readiness, but when a transgender person receives hormone therapy to better align their body with who they are, suddenly the same category of care becomes evidence that society is collapsing.

There’s no question, “gender-affirming care” has been turned into a political weapon. Most people hear it and picture one very specific patient. They don’t picture the middle-aged veteran whose doctor prescribes testosterone because his levels are clinically low. They don’t picture the man whose treatment is intended to affirm his male physiology.

Nobody calls his care controversial because it shouldn’t be—for any patient.

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