Military
2025 January
2025-01-27 In 2017 Trump initiated efforts to ban transgender people from serving the Armed forces and the policy took place 2019. President Joe Biden reversed the order in 2021, but Trump once again signed a new executive order in 2025 to reinstate and expand the ban. A federal judge blocked Trump’s effort to ban transgender troops from military service in March, but the Supreme Court inevitably allowed the ban to proceed.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5332409/transgender-troops-ban-preliminary-injunction
https://transequality.org/resources/understanding-trumps-trans-military-ban
2025 June
2025-06-27 Pete Hegseth announced a Naval ship name change during Pride Month, citing that being named after a gay military member was “political” and did not align with his warrior ethos. Hegseth wrote on social media, “I am pleased to announce that the United States Navy is renaming the USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson. We are taking the politics out of ship naming”.
https://x.com/SecWar/status/1938568563838886269
2025 November
2025-11-12 Pete Hegseth gave a speech at the 4th Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit. In that speech, he compared the current moment in history as a “1939 type moment or hopefully a 1981 moment” (context: 1939 is the year Adolf Hitler began his reign of terror). He talked about readiness, stating that means, “no more social justice, no more political correctness, no more toxic ideological garbage that infected the department”. He further stated, “No more identity months, no more DEI offices, no more dudes in dresses”. He went on to say “no more climate change worship, no more division, no more delusions, gender delusions or quotas, no more distraction. As the chairman of the joint chiefs puts it: Pete you’re clearing out the debris.