Affirmation

Affirmation 2026-07-17T21:56:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 US Senator Tammy Duckworth, a decorated veteran, jdescribed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s plan to test the testosterone levels of cis men serving in the military as gender-affirming care. I’m guessing she meant it as a joke but… I am sorry that I must once again write about trans things when I could be writing about things I enjoy. The cisgender men serving in the US military are men. No one is challenging that. Hegseth may think they aren’t “masculine” enough or that they are “weak” or “sissy.” But no one is demanding to inspect their genitals before they use the restroom, suggesting they are better suited to child rearing than piloting fighter planes, or incapable of holding a ‘warrior’ mindset. Hegseth’s proposal is coercive, and part of the freakish white masculine supremacist evangelical culture which he, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and others want to impose on the military and the US in…