LGBTQ
2017
2017-08-25 Trump signed a memo to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.
2021
2021-01-22 SCOTUS allowed the Trump administration’s ban on transgender in the military to take effect.
2021-01-25 Biden revoked Trump’s transgender military ban.
2025 January
2025-01-27 Trump signed another executive order banning transgender from serving in the US military. A federal judge blocked the order, but SCOTUS inevitably allowed it 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 March
2025-03-07 The Trump administration purged 26,000 military photos of anything referencing women or minorities. That included photos of the Enola Gay Boeing B-29 because it had the word ‘gay’ in it.
2025 June
2025-06-27 During Pride Month Pete Hegseth renamed USNS Harvey Milk to USNS Oscar V Peterson, claiming the original name was political and didn’t align with a warrior ethos.
https://x.com/SecWar/status/1938568563838886269
2025 November
2025-11-12 During the 4th Annual Northeast Indiana Defense Summit Pete Hegseth criticized DEI initiatives, political correctness, and what he called “climate change worship”.
2026 June
2026-06-01 Federal courts blocked the Pentagon from discharging transgender service members but allowed the Pentagon to continue banning transgender people from entering.
https://www.military.com/trump-admin-illegally-banned-transgender-troops-from-military-court-ruling