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Hi everyone! I am 22 years old, and a student at BYU. I came out just a few days ago, and it was better than I ever could have imagined. Here’s my story:

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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.

Deep down, the latest move by Pete Hegseth is another example of a conversation had never really been about the medicine or the care. It was always about deciding who deserves it. ... See MoreSee Less

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If you grew up Mormon and realized you were gay in the early 2000’s, there’s a good chance someone told you to watch Latter Days.

The movie was released in 2003, at a time when there were very few films about LGBTQ people of faith—and even fewer that centered on Mormonism.

The story follows Aaron, a young LDS missionary serving in Los Angeles, and Christian, the openly gay man who lived in the apartment across the courtyard. What starts as an unlikely friendship slowly becomes something neither of them expected. As Aaron begins confronting feelings he has spent his entire life trying to ignore, the consequences reach every part of his world.

For many LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, that storyline was way too familiar.

It wasn’t just about falling in love. It was about wondering whether there was a place for you in your family, your church, or your future if you were honest about who and what you are.

The movie also introduced a lot of people outside Mormonism to experiences they had never considered. Many viewers walked away with a better understanding of the pressure LGBTQ Mormons often face, the emotional cost of rejection, and why acceptance from even one person can change someone’s life.

Is it a perfect movie? Ha, no. It’s absolutely a film from the early 2000’s, and some parts haven’t aged well. But more than twenty years later, people are still recommending it because there still aren’t many movies that tell this story from a Mormon perspective.

If you’ve never seen it, Latter Days is currently streaming free on YouTube, Tubi and Pluto TV. It’s also available through Kanopy at participating libraries, and you can rent or purchase it on Apple TV and Prime Video.

I’m curious how many people here have seen it.

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