It's not flamebait. This perspective is widespread and discussed with nuance in the fitness community, and also in the medical community, eg https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37285414/

It's in no way a controversial or baity observation.

In that case it needed more information to disambiguate from flamebait. Especially since the account has a history thereof.

Have you considered the possibility that many people posting in this thread are sufficiently interested in physical culture to already know about this point of view? Anyone who reads weightlifting forums where steroids are likely to be discussed already encounters this idea on a daily basis.

I get that it's a new concept for you, but your assumption was misplaced.

I didn't intend the comment to be taken that way. Also not sure what other comment I made that was considered flamebait. Maybe I missed that being called out or just forgot. Anyway, steroid use is gender affirming care. They're taken by men who perceive themselves as what society has generally considered a man and they want to emphasize those characteristics. I think it's interesting all the discussion lately of gender affirming care but barely see any discussion on cis/heterosexual people taking hormones and undergoing cosmetic procedures to emphasize those gendered physical characteristics.

I think there are 4 groups of people who take hormones.

1. Those who take them for competitive advantage in sports

2. Those who take them because a doctor has told them that their body is producing less than it should be

3. Those who take them because they want the physical attributes that goes along with it because of how they identify

4. Biohackers

All of those reasons are valid

If you had posted this above, it would of course have been fine. The trouble is that a one-line comment that simply names a divisive theme and contains no further information is liable to be misinterpreted.

Re prior flamebait comments, I was thinking of (at least) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36546191 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36541462.

Oh. Yeah. I'm on my phone and really dislike typing on touchscreens. I should say things of more substance or nothing at all. I have periodically taken ivermectin. My friend had bedbugs and I was worried that he brought them over to my place. I had read about how ivermectin will kill bedbugs. Also when my roommates dog had worms I took some just in case I got them somehow. It's a safe and useful drug, just not for covid.