Women

2024

2024-11-15 During a podcast promoting his book, Pete Hegseth stated “I’m straight up just saying we shouldn’t have women in combat roles”.

https://19thnews.org/2024/11/women-veterans-react-trump-pete-hegseth-combat/

https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/pete-hegseth-wants-women-out-of-the-military-and-hes-not-hiding-it

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/us/military-women-pete-hegseth-defense-secretary

2025 January

2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14004 Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country in Uniform.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/

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.

https://apnews.com/article/dei-purge-images-pentagon-diversity-women-black-8efcfaec909954f4a24bad0d49c78074

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/war-heroes-gay-plane-images-flagged-removal-pentagons-dei-purge-rcna195344

2025-03-15 The Trump administration stripped away women’s history pages from the Arlington website.

https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Media/News/Post/14651/Website-Content-Update

FOR WOMEN VETERANS https://foundationforwomenwarriors.org/

2025 August

2025-08-01 The Trump administration banned veterans from accessing abortion care or counseling.

https://reproductiverights.org/5-things-trump-va-abortion-ban/

2025 September

2025-09-24 Pete Hegseth shut down the Women Advisory Council for the military.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/politics/hegseth-shuts-down-women-advisory-military

2026 March

2026-03-26 Hegseth removed female and Black Army officers from a promotion list. He did this again in June to the Navy.

2026-03-27 Pete Hegseth removed two Black and two female officers from a promotion list, leaving some senior military officials to question if women and minorities were being singled out. In the same article presenting this information, the article wrote that Chief of Staff Ricky Buria told the Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll about assigning Major General Antoinette R. Gant command of the Military District of Washington President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/hegseth-promotion-list.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/27/pete-hegseth-cuts-black-men-women-military-promotion-list

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/army-secretary-trump-black-female-officer-1235538305/

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5804541-pete-hegseth-pentagon-promotion-list/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trump-did-not-want-to-stand-next-to-black-female-officers-at-military-events-claims-defence-staff-report/articleshow/129850686.cms

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-official-told-military-officer-132409515.html

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/03/27/hegseth-reportedly-removes-2-black-2-female-army-officers-from-1-star-promotion-list/

2026 June

2026-06-02 Hegseth again struck several female and Black Navy officers from a promotion list. This list was released by the Pentagon May 22. He did this in March to the Army

https://abcnews.com/Politics/hegseth-blocks-promotion-navy-officers-1-star-rank/story?id=133498412

PAY WALL https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-blocks-eight-navy-senior-officer-promotions-aa536aa2

PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html

MARCH, ARMY: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/03/27/hegseth-reportedly-removes-2-black-2-female-army-officers-from-1-star-promotion-list/