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That's just a really messed up view, and very terribly exclusionary. Even if we did abolish the concept of gender about 50% (+/- .05%) of that population will have elevated testosterone, and you've already decided the whole lot is bad just due to their bodies natural proccess.
It's like saying estrogen better not turn me into a TERF like JK Rowling or a conservative like Margaret Thatcher. It's simply a nonsensical view.
I can't speak to how hormones affect people generally, but looking at how my father behaves (and is a MAGA disciple and Trump worshipper) I'm terrified of becoming more like him.
Every person is different, and based on my heritage, I have some scary ideas of who I might have been via small nudges of destiny or biology.
The facets about your father than you find bad are not about being "male", even as I wager he asserts it to be.
I've realized that IRL there are no character traits we want a man to have but not a woman, and vice versa. This is the train of thought that leads me to gender abolition, at least for myself.
Masculinity no longer means anything positive, and the popular folk who assert that it means something insist that it means things that I find objectionable, and who behave in ways that are objectionable, themselves.