The word “transgender” and all references to trans people are clearly acts of adhering to President Trump's new federal gender policy, and the National Park Service website for New York City's iconic Stonewall National Monument has been deleted from.
In addition to the fact that transgender people are no longer listed on federally run websites, the “T”, “Q” and “+” have also been discarded from the acronyms “LGBTQ+.”
“Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal,” the website read Wednesday.
But by Thursday, “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal.”
Located in the heart of Greenwich Village across from the iconic Stonewall Inn, the small Stonewall Park is considered by many in the queer community as the iconic centre of the gay rights movement.
There, a series of riots known as the “uprising” broke out in 1969 after police tried to attack the Stonewall Inn, and the modern gay rights movement jumped off.
The removal of transgender references from the Stonewall National Memorial website comes as Trump signed a series of executive orders directing the federal government to recognize only two genders: male and female.
In his inauguration speech on January 20th, Trump vowed to “defeat the toxic poisons of gender ideology” in a modest echo from the campaign trail.
“With my pen stroke on the first day, we're going to stop the transgender madness,” he told supporters in December after being elected.
And the president continued – within a few days, official federal government policies to not only recognize the genders of men and women, but also ban the use of federal funds for handling child sexual change. Sign an order to sign and biological men are not permitted to compete in female sports.
The federal government website began scrubbing references to trans people within days of Trump's first order, recognizing only men and women.
The removal of transgender references from the Stonewall Monument website appears to be part of the federal government following Trump's orders.
City Councilman Eric Bocker condemned the move in a statement posted to X.
“The Trump administration erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Memorial website,” Bocker wrote.
“We do not allow them to erase the very existence of our brothers. We are one community!,” he added.
The National Park Service did not respond to requests for comment.
