Sen. Duckworth on Hegseth’s Testosterone Deficiency Screening of the Military: ‘Sounds Like Gender-Affirming Care to Me’

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DUCKWORTH: “Well, it sounds like gender-affirming care to me. So, I’m glad he has come around to supporting gender-affirming care. Look, I’m all for expanding access to health care for our troops, but why would we want to stop at testosterone? Let’s extend hormone screenings for all of our brave service members to help us identify fertility issues, for example, since studies show that both women and men in our military disproportionately face higher rates of infertility than the general population. And frankly, if the testing reveals hormones are low for men or women, let’s allow all of our heroes to be able to voluntarily sign up for IVF treatment to help them grow their families, because, frankly, we are more likely to lose our investments in our heroes if they can’t have access to IVF treatment to start their families.”