Why do you think the public was entitled to know he was taking HRT?

It's messed up in the same way that workout influencers deny being on steroids when they are. It gives people messed up body image issues because they are being told that they can achieve something that is actually impossible. This is a reaction that a lot of people in the thread are actually having.

There are differences of course:

A. There's more social pressure to hide being on HRT than steroids.

B. Not mentioning something is different than denying it.

So, I think we can acknowledge that he had reason to hide it and that he's not required to disclose it, but we can also acknowledge the harm it causes in the discourse when it comes from such a prominent person.