{"id":1008,"date":"2026-07-17T10:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2026-07-17T10:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T10:54:25","slug":"pete-hegseth-wants-to-measure-your-manhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth wants to measure your manhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pete Hegseth has once again decided to humiliate the American military, this time by claiming the troops need more testosterone. But the defense secretary,\u00a0armed with his perfectly coiffed hair and alleged makeup studio, is ready to restore their manhood. In a video released Wednesday, Hegseth discovered spoke of how \u201cthe modern battlefield is brutal and unrelenting\u201d and \u201cdemands maximum psychological and mental readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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His solution? \u201cHigh-T,\u201d as he put it. Despite his loathing of \u201cbeardos,\u201d Hegseth is excited about \u201cfixing\u201d those he deems falling short in the manhood-measurement department. Since he can\u2019t actually pull out a ruler and demand his \u201cwarfighters\u201d drop trou, the former Fox News host is doing the next best thing: making testosterone level testing mandatory for all service members over 30.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The move is just the latest example of a paradox that plagues MAGA men, from Donald Trump down to the everyday Joe Rogan fan posting workout videos in his Oakley sunglasses. Efforts to prove their masculinity are so over-the-top that they inevitably read more as anxious than tough, revealing the deep well of insecurity fueling the movement.<\/p>\n

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Hegseth is an especially cringeworthy example, with an attitude toward the troops that is less of a leader and closer to a third-grade boy dressing up his G.I. Joes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hegseth is an especially cringeworthy example, with an attitude toward the troops that is less of a leader and closer to a third-grade boy dressing up his G.I. Joes. He\u2019s fixated entirely on superficial indicators of \u201cmanliness,\u201d which gets in the way of the concerns that any normal adult would have in the job, such as how to avoid causing and proceeding to losing them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no magic formula that can tell us what level of testosterone best prepares someone to serve in the United States military,\u201d Dr. Emile Redwood, a urologist\u00a0with Physicians for Reproductive Health, told me. While \u201cthere are broad physiologic parameters of estrogen and testosterone that support our overall endocrine system function,\u201d he said, they don\u2019t correlate to \u201cour mental readiness to be a clear and cogent member of a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTestosterone levels have no place as a proxy for a myriad of physical and mental readiness tests, where capacity and readiness is directly measured,\u201d Redwood concluded.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s unlikely Hegseth understands or even cares about what the actual medical science says. This is the same man who declared in 2019 that he doesn\u2019t wash his hands because \u201cgerms are not a real thing.\u201d He later tried to write his germ denialism off as a joke, but at the Pentagon he has ended flu vaccine mandates for service members, calling them \u201cabsurd.\u201d This decision is likely rooted in nothing more than a childish understanding of biology, which equates testosterone with being \u201cmanly\u201d and therefore assumes the more \u201cT\u201d, the manlier the man. In reality, artificially boosting testosterone, especially if not medically indicated, can shrink testicles, lower sperm counts and even make it harder to urinate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n