The National Park Service's recent decision to remove references to transgender individuals on its Stonewall National Monument webpage has sparked significant outrage from the LGBTQ+ community. This decision aligns with the Trump administration's stance on gender, insisting only male and female categories exist. Local councilman Erik Bottcher highlighted the historical importance of transgender people in the Stonewall riots, stating their erasure is shameful. The monument itself, established in 2016, stands as a significant site in America's gay rights movement, symbolizing the struggle for equality and recognition.
This is the latest attempt to erase the very existence of transgender people. The rebellion at Stonewall would not have happened without trans people.
The word transgender and the letter T in the abbreviation had been removed from the page.
The Stonewall Inn has been considered a cradle of America's gay rights movement since a police raid there in 1969 touched off three days of protests.
To attempt to erase their existence is utterly shameful.
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