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Military Law

Oct. 7, 2025

Military grooming and gender-neutral policies raise concerns for Black service members

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's new grooming and gender-neutral standards risk disproportionately affecting Black and female service members, limiting avenues for redress, and undermining diversity, equity and inclusion within the U.S. military.

Selwyn D. Whitehead

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The Law Offices of Selwyn D. Whitehead

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Military grooming and gender-neutral policies raise concerns for Black service members
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As a proud evergreen-military-brat and the former spouse of a professional soldier, who has lived on military installations from Alaska to Florida, California to North Carolina and a couple within NATO in Europe, on top of being a former Department of Defense Civilian and a former Data and Telecommunications Engineer responsible for designing information communications system for the military while employed by a couple of major international communications firms, I have proud...

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