There is a quite extraordinary story in the New York Post in which a trader at $10 billion hedge fund SAC Capital claims that he was forced to take female hormone pills to improve his trading performance.
He allges that one of the firm's top bosses:
chided traders for being too aggressive - and that they must use a soft feminine touch to score in their trading pitches.One junior trader claimed that the boss, Ping Jiang, a key producer at the big hedge fund, demanded that the young trader take female hormone pills to help erase his aggressive male ways so he could be more effeminate in his trading style.
Eventually, the hormones caused the junior trader to start wearing dresses, avoid his wife's touches altogether and allegedly begin a sexual relationship with his boss, the trader claims.