There will be a lot on the plate for new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when he steps into his office on the Pentagon’s third floor E Ring.

One of Pete Hegseth’s first tasks as Defense Secretary will be to ban transgender servicemen and women and wipe out all mention of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs from the armed forces. He will also bar the use of “invented and identification-based pronouns” and stop biological males and females from using sleeping quarters and bathrooms “intended for the opposite sex,

When Pete Hegseth ’03 was a Princeton student, he was known as a strong conservative voice on campus, a proud member of the Cap and Gown Club, publisher of The Princeton Tory, and devoted Christian.