Over 380 DEI books removed from Naval Academy library

Over 380 different books were removed from the Naval Academy library on Friday evening after the Trump administration took steps to remove DEI as well as other left-wing policies in government. After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban DEI in K-12 grade education, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said that the same will apply at the Naval Academy.

Some of the books that have now been removed from the Naval Academy library include "How to be An Antiracist" by Ibram X Kendi, "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" by Emmanual Acho, "Gender Queer," by Maia Kobabe, and hundreds of others, according to Starrs.us.

The New York Times reported the Naval Academy started to remove the list of books from the library shelves earlier this week on Monday, and that the books cross the topics of sexuality, gender, race, and other DEI-related topics.

Other titles that were removed included “Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex” by Elizabeth Reis, "Between XX and XY: Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes" by Gerald N. Callahan, and many others.

The order that inspired Hegseth to order the removal of the books from the Naval Academy states that such texts "erode critical thinking but also sow division, confusion, and distrust, which undermine the very foundations of personal identity and family unity" and that in schools across America, the Trump administration will take steps to eliminate "Federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in K-12 schools, including based on gender ideology and discriminatory equity ideology."

Hegseth has been quick to implement other anti-DEI actions as Secretary of Defense, and recently announced combat roles will have one high fitness standard for both men and women in the military.