{"id":428,"date":"2002-11-13T23:32:51","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/11\/13\/male_contraceptive_pill.html"},"modified":"2002-11-13T23:32:51","modified_gmt":"2002-11-13T23:32:51","slug":"male_contraceptive_pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/11\/13\/male_contraceptive_pill.html","title":{"rendered":"male contraceptive pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askmen.com\/love\/dzimmer_60\/72_love_answers.html\">researchers have developed a pill for men<\/a>.  Interestingly, it operates on the same principle as the female pill: induce pregnancy hormones.  In order to counteract the problems that this would cause on a male system (impotence, decreased sex drive, etc.), they also pump the body with testosterone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fascinated that we&#8217;re willing to allow this level of hormone messing for folks to keep from getting pregnant, but we still won&#8217;t allow hormone futzing for trans folks.  How much do you want to bet that this will be covered by insurance the moment that it is released on the market?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as though researchers have developed a pill for men. Interestingly, it operates on the same principle as the female pill: induce pregnancy hormones. In order to counteract the problems that this would cause on a male system (impotence, decreased sex drive, etc.), they also pump the body with testosterone. I&#8217;m fascinated that we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}