The phrase “transgender” and all references to trans folks had been faraway from the Nationwide Park Service web site for New York Metropolis’s iconic Stonewall Nationwide Monument, in an obvious act of compliance with President Trump’s new federal gender insurance policies.
Along with transgender not being listed on the federally-run web site, the “T,” “Q” and “+” had been additionally scrapped from the “LGBTQ+” acronym — which now solely reads “LGB” every time referenced.
“Earlier than the Sixties, nearly every little thing about dwelling overtly as a lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) individual was unlawful,” the web site learn on Wednesday.
However by Thursday the location mentioned: “Earlier than the Sixties, nearly every little thing about dwelling overtly as a lesbian, homosexual, bisexual (LGB) individual was unlawful.”
Situated within the coronary heart of Greenwich Village throughout from the enduring Stonewall Inn, the small Stonewall Park is taken into account by many within the queer neighborhood to be the symbolic coronary heart of the homosexual rights motion.
It was there that the trendy homosexual rights motion was jumpstarted after a sequence of riots — generally known as the “rebellion” — broke out in 1969 after police tried to raid the Stonewall Inn.
The removing of the transgender references from the Stonewall Nationwide Monument web site comes as Trump signed a sequence of govt orders directing the federal authorities to solely acknowledge two genders — female and male.
Throughout his inauguration speech on Jan. 20, Trump vowed to “defeat the poisonous poison of gender ideology” in an echo of a chorus from the marketing campaign path.
“With the stroke of my pen on day one, we’re going to cease the transgender lunacy,” he informed supporters in December after he was elected.
And the president adopted by — inside days signing an order that not solely made it official federal coverage to solely acknowledge the female and male sexes, but additionally banning using federal funds for baby sex-change therapy, and one other mandating that organic males will not be allowed to compete in ladies’s sports activities.
Federal web sites started scrubbing references to transgender folks inside days of Trump’s first order to solely acknowledge women and men.
The removing of transgender references from the Stonewall Monument web site seems to be part of the federal authorities following Trump’s orders.
Metropolis Councilman Erik Bottcher denounced the transfer in a press release posted to X.
“The Trump administration has erased transgender folks from the Stonewall Nationwide Monument web site,” Bottcher wrote.
“We is not going to enable them to erase the very existence of our siblings. We’re one neighborhood!!” he added.
The Nationwide Parks Service didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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