🔶More Testosterone, More Masculinity? Science Responds to the Recent Controversy in the U.S. Army

In July 2026, Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, ordered the U.S. Army to begin annual screening of testosterone levels for all military personnel aged 30 and older as part of routine health examinations.

By raising the plan to measure the testosterone of Army forces, he exposed a larger cultural challenge: an unhealthy obsession with the concept of masculinity and deep misunderstandings about it.

After the announcement of this plan, Jesse Watters, a host on Fox News, joked that soldiers take hormones even when they don’t need them in order to triple their sexual power.

These remarks triggered many reactions; but experts say that such claims reflect deep misunderstandings about the real role of hormones.