{"id":3861,"date":"2026-09-18T06:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2026-09-18T06:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:36:36","slug":"pentagon-to-proceed-with-controversial-testosterone-testing-after-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=3861","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to proceed with controversial testosterone testing after pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By Gram Slattery<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The Pentagon is reinstituting a mandatory testing program \u200cfor testosterone deficiency among US service members \u200cage 30 and older, a spokesperson said on Thursday, \u200bbringing back a program that many medical experts have described as unnecessary and potentially harmful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has promoted the use \u200cof testosterone to \u2060improve military readiness, first announced the screening mandate in July.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Under the announced guidance, \u2060women were also set to be screened through a questionnaire and could then move to \u200btreatment for \u200bconditions related to hormonal \u200bimbalances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-4\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In early September, \u200chowever, the Pentagon temporarily rescinded the published medical guidance for the testosterone screening &#8220;to allow for updates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The latest move lifts that pause, allowing testing to go forward. It was not immediately clear what, \u200cif any, updates had \u200bbeen made to the original \u200bpolicy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Effective immediately, this \u200bguidance addresses male testosterone deficiency, establishing \u200cuniform screening and treatment \u200bpathways,&#8221; Pentagon spokesperson \u200bSean Parnell said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-accent\/2 pb-5 md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<div class=\"py-2 text-center text-xs uppercase\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medical professionals have warned that testosterone, if prescribed inappropriately, \u200bcould increase \u200cservice members&#8217; risk of infertility or lead \u200bto other health consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Gram Slattery; \u200bEditing by Jamie Freed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The Pentagon is reinstituting a mandatory testing program \u200cfor testosterone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-us"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}