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“What if I told you everything you know is a lie?” – Morpheus, The Matrix
What if I told you that everything that you have been told about transgender issues was a lie? That none of the “just asking questions,” “protecting women’s sports,” and “we can’t afford to pay for their care” arguments were made in good faith?
You were used. Duped. Played for patsies by fascists to get you to hand power to them to deal with a phantom menace that they invented in the first place.
Pete Hegseth’s Department of Defense has argued in federal court that transgender care is an excessive financial burden, citing approximately $5.2 million in annual spending on treatments. Then last week Hegseth issued a directive that all cisgender men 30 and older in the military be tested for “low testosterone” and have access to “testosterone therapy.”
Hegseth’s announcement came in a video on X titled “High-T Department of War” where he promised to ensure “you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best.” The delivery and tone of the video would have been perfectly appropriate for a 2 a.m. informercial in between Fox News reruns, but it was completely out of place in an address to serious-minded troops.
Hegseth claimed we have “a sacred duty to maintain that [testosterone] advantage,” which raises some questions.
Can only people with high testosterone be lethal? It seems like that would entirely exclude women in the military, which is probably the point. But it also ignores that up to 90 percent of the thousand-plus Russians dying per day in Ukraine are taken out by drones. There are thousands of videos on the internet of Ukrainian first-person-view drones killing Russians, and nobody would ever think of asking about the testosterone levels of the people flying them. For all anyone knows, they could be transgender catgirls with cute little whiskers drawn on their noses sitting in air-conditioned trailers with a game controller a hundred miles from the front.
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Then there’s the fact that Hegseth’s new policy sounds suspiciously like gender affirming care — you know, giving hormones to people so their bodies match how they feel about their gender. But that’s something the DoD definitely couldn’t afford for trans people.
There’s also the pesky problem of the DoD testifying in court that transgender people have a serious medical condition that requires them to take hormones, which the military absolutely cannot support logistically or medically. But now, according to Hegseth, he wants guys to be jacked up on testosterone when they’re deployed.
Here’s a little secret: the testosterone Hegseth wants to give to cisgender troops is the same stuff they give to transgender men. And the estrogen tablets they give to transgender women are the exact same ones given to women who have had hysterectomies, menopause, perimenopause, or just want to stop their periods while they’re in the field. So, which is it: taking hormones renders you non-deployable and therefore unfit for military service, or it makes you the perfect killing machine?