Overnight, the National Park Service has removed "transgender" and the "T" from the LGBTQ+ acronym on their webpage about the Stonewall National Monument.
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And attempt to erase history. Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Storme DeLarevie, ALL TRANSGENDER, were the leaders of the Stonewall riots that started our revolution and fight for our rights!!! We will never forget and not let them be erased!
We must come together to make sure the LGBTQ+ community is not only recognized, but also protected under the law. Join me in making sure we all live with the dignity and respect we deserve. Add your name to their petition today to defend our shared humanity.
The more people who stand and say “no, this isn’t right, we the people do NOT agree with this” the less likely they’ll roll it out with others such as those with a disability or are old, those that don’t earn $1millon a month etc…
I'm in the UK 🇬🇧 I hope you don't mind but I signed the petition. I'm of the age that knows what previous generations had to suffer to be where we are now. As the Mum of a gay son it's breaking my heart seeing what Trump is doing. I just know it won't end with the trans community.
They can't erase transgender people even though Elon wants to. What a sad human being. He could just accept his daughter and try to connect to ANY of his kids but he can't so he will just burn it all down.
As I saw a person say on s.m....
'You come for one of our rights, you come for all our rights'. In the UK we have a similar saying, 'Give them an inch, they'll take a mile'.
I’m old enuf to remember the horrors. My dear friends in the closets professionally always joyous when permitted to just be human in good company. We will NOT go back. We can’t unknow the essential humanity revealed in beautiful, healthy LGBTQ relationships & individuals. putin permits none. Clue?
Unless someone is suing for these protections, we won’t get them. Do you honestly think the Trump administration pays any attention to a petition? This feels performative. We need people in the streets.
If you haven't realized it many transpeople are also Lesbian, Gay, or Bi as well as a myriad of other romantic and sexual attractions. Essentially attacking transpeople attacks all members of the community. We are seen as both easy targets and the first step to getting rid of ever lgbt person.
Two separate issues then. Transgender ideology is inherently homophobic because it denies the reality of sex. Men identifying as women berate lesbians, calling them transphobic for not being interested in a sexual relationship with a male. These men also insist on occupying lesbian-only spaces.
The problem with your theory is that implies that transpeople are just playing pretend to exclude others and this is simply not the case. Transpeople just don't claim to be a gender they are that gender. Not to mention your also excluding genderfluid and non-binary people who also transition.
The true reality is while a person maybe born with a certain set of genitals it doesn't necessarily mean they are what those genitals imply to what most consider the "societal norm". It's not an ideology, it's a fact of who they are. Wishing to be your true self doesn't exclude others.
If the LGBQ community think they can afford to let the T look after themselves they will be sadly mistaken - who do they think will next be in line to be “rolled back”?
What’s really great about this is that this may be a good opportunity for men who aren’t afraid of feelings to father sons who are like themselves as I suspect masculinity as we project it will be considered unattractive and unacceptable in the near future.
Nah it's just easier to get away with hurting trans people first these days, same reason the right got Real quiet about gay marriage after it got legalised. They realised they needed a more publicly-acceptable target.
Do you think the people who forced the National Park Service to take this action are aware why there is a Stonewall National Monument? Perhaps a reminder is needed.
Humans started behavioral modernity roughly 160,000 BCE..the Neolithic Revolution roughly 11,000 BCE and now in 2025 AD women’s bodies aren’t their own, banning books, facts that don’t fit someone’s narrative is now fake news and trying to remove T… yay modern era way to be Neanderthals again
Why pick just Trans people? Is it okay now to just support LGB community but not the trans community? I don't understand why they are discriminating against any of them.
This is horrendous. Just because you remove a word or letter doesn't mean things don't exist or never happened. We were getting past the hate and now it is full blown and increasing. W.T.F. Stand tall and proud and we will teach our children, grandchildren and on & on, the history and the love.
They’re such weird ass bitches, they can’t stay out of everyone else’s business. Literally harassing the most vulnerable community in our nation, it’s disgusting and pathetic.
They need to get a life and touch some grass. #TransLivesMatter #TransRightAreHumanRights
Language changes. "Transwoman" would have been correct at the time, even though it's deprecated (a much more nuanced term than "wrong") now. It's good to correct it though.
Disproven, but the point is that the LGBT+ community stood together during the Stonewall riots and will stand together as long as they are all marginalised
As much as I truly support all of our Ts, in a way, this is a good thing? Lesbians, gays, & bi are sexual orientation. We don't use queer as it is derogatory. Trans is gender identity and has nothing to do with orientation or partner preference. We've come a long way, and it's time to clean it up.
They removed the TQ+. It reads now as LGB only. So sad and hurtful. I can barely put this into words. I have volunteered for years for GSMNP and this may be the most evil the park service has done. Where is the backbone of the NPS staff?
According to staff at Stonewall, this was done without their knowledge or consent from outside. Also please look into @altnps.bsky.social if you think NPS employees have no backbone. They are putting themselves at risk to resist and keep the public informed.
This is being done to make transgender people feel less. But there are a whole lot of us who support transgender rights and loved ones, so it’s up to us to make sure that they know they matter.
The “LGBs” already got rid of everything past the B. So these gay men and lesbians really think they’re “safe” if they disown everyone else in the community?
It’s amazing that there’s a festival in two places in India where transgender people gather in large numbers to celebrate our unique place in humanity. The ancient people of India knew then and sad some today ignore that history that we’ve always existed everywhere and in every culture.
Whoever is running their social media page on Facebook has today hit out in protest. Ignoring Mango Mussolini's EO on DEI in the best way possible. #BlackHistoryMonth
No, but jackals always go for the outliers first, slowly weakening the rest of the group. There are already attempts to undo national gay marriage, cutting funding for HIV prevention and PrEP- the far-right pseudoChristian trash have been making plans for awhile.
Spiteful. But it's another distraction tactic. They are running Americans into the ground. They are making people too weak and frightened to fight back. Get the Republican nuts out now!
Tell these Maga idiots Look up Chevalier d'Éon. He was a French diplomat and Spy & A Drag Queen that helped Benjamin Franklin.
The days of judgemental hypocritical puritanical Subjugation are over.
Conservatives lie to change our true history. Time to stop fighting each other & come together
That is how it begins. And then they will come for the rest of the letters. And then they will come for you.
Because, nobody thinks this is only about transgender people, right? The bigots hate us all.
Stonewall that began with a Black Trans Woman. They will hang in shame at their WHITEWASHING of history.
Germany in the 1930's they said they didn't understand were just doing their jobs. The motto is NEVER AGAIN. You cannot feign ignorance this time.
My German professor who grew up under the Nazis told us repeatedly that no one was just following orders. Posts at camps were considered coveted and filled only by the most eager
They fired more than 2,000 people over the weekend. Those were the folks who maintained the websites and kept the parks safe. Now it's just coders in Washington making all these decisions.
It was not done by the National Park Service, they confirmed this on Bluesky the other day. I haven’t read all the comments, but it’s important to know.
Can we now remove the T from Trump's name, which seems only fair to me. I mean, he is removing the T from everyone else's identity. Why can't everyone remove it from his.
Just don't call mango moron vice-president or first lady it really makes him mad. *trying to look innocent * ( note placing *before and after a sentence denotes an action)
Initially it seemed odd that this is their hill, but then it made sense. They took something that is not readily understood and an easy target for the ignorant, and then ramped up the fear. Trans people just want to live their lives. They aren't hurting anyone FFS.
You cannot erase people by taking out a T transsexuals will still be there. They’ve always been here. These people are idiots. There’s I do not wanna be ruled by their fucking Christian bullshit fuck these white sons of bitches.
Use it more and more and more…so much to where it’s overwhelming. They want to erase people and history? We can erase their evil attempts to deny people their God Given right to exist 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
This is actually a good idea; the idea of going back to Jan 20th and compiling a list of every single person, company, organization and institution- not to mention government or world leader - that has gone along with trumplethinskin’s commands - feels daunting. But necessary.
I'm a transwoman and i go to work then go home to sleep then repeat and i have not mess with any one or any thing but every one just wants to mess with me for no reason besides follow the hate that others breed i dont deserve this
You can take it from view but you can't take it from the people. I have yet to be able to understand why a transgendered person is such a threat to a magat. They shouldn't be near as frightened of someone coming for their penis as for coming for their democracy.
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Cowards.
Nation full of cowards.
If they say they were "forced" before, they are even worse cowards.
How is the democracy expected to survive, when most of the nation is servile or does not care at all?
If anyone bothered to study the genetic makeup of those who are transgender, they would more than likely find chromosomes backing up their reality. Blood tests on this are easy and accurate. For every baby prenatal. It will explain a lot.
If you call yourself an ally, contact Senators LOUDLY AND DAILY. Vote daily with your spending/ boycotts. Do all the things. None are free until all are free! https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Musk is very disturbed by his transgender child and the way he paraded that poor boy, displaying his successor now in training. Very very tragic for the children
He's more than likely parading said child around as a human shield. Lot of footage of him conspicuously wrapped around his head after the United Healthcare shooting.
Doesn't change a thing. I still accept and support the right of anyone to live and love the way they choose. I'm sure millions of Americans feel the same way.
Got a feeling they will remove one letter at a time over the course of a couple of months because it would hurt more than just removing the whole thing at once.
I told someone yesterday what happens in a public women’s bathroom when a trans woman comes into the bathroom… nothing. We all go to the toilet, wash our hands, and then leave. We are all there for one thing, and one thing only - to relieve ourselves
Their fascination with bathrooms is really disturbing. It's like what they do or want to do in there is what they think other people think bathrooms are for.
I'll also tell you what happens in men's bathrooms at a large concert - women go in the men's room to use the stalls because the women's line is too long. No man in there bats an eye. At least that's how it used to be.
I wouldn’t have cared if a man with his little daughter walked in to the woman’s room to let his daughter use the bathroom. The stalls are enclosed and have locks on them, who cares?
Homeless on the rise, government wants to cut all programs to feed, educate, housing assistance, food and med costs for the poor, environment etc etc but they are babies not embryos. But they needed that sign change. Prejudice and hate must come first.
If they removed the t from trees 🌲 it’s just rees. That’s gonna get confusing in a park. But then I guess they can just try to hire back ask the calligraphers after they’ve fired them. 🤷🏼♂️
I’m sure they’ll do their very best to accurately describe the events. Specifically where the cops were invited into the Stonewall Inn for beers and they all decided that anti-gay bigotry was bad.
Clearly trans women were barely involved! Certainly no one needed to even raise their voice.
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Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
The more people who stand and say “no, this isn’t right, we the people do NOT agree with this” the less likely they’ll roll it out with others such as those with a disability or are old, those that don’t earn $1millon a month etc…
Thank you.
'You come for one of our rights, you come for all our rights'. In the UK we have a similar saying, 'Give them an inch, they'll take a mile'.
🇺🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈: “Duty and Sacrifice”
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Unless someone is suing for these protections, we won’t get them. Do you honestly think the Trump administration pays any attention to a petition? This feels performative. We need people in the streets.
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
2 girls, right?
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
Next? Mecca!
Maga morons are running the US again. Good times!
https://www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-texas-girl-bullied-over-familys-immigration-status-takes-her-own-life-575984
They need to get a life and touch some grass. #TransLivesMatter #TransRightAreHumanRights
I don't mean to nitpick allies obviously expressing support. I'm grateful.
The distinction is just to make clear it's an adjective for a woman, not something distinct from woman.
Sorry for nitpicking and thank you support ☺️
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey for president
We stand together- trans, queer, gay, bi, lesbian, asexual - or we fall.
If you think you “truly support all of our Ts” then ask them what they want. And actually listen.
Wow nature never fails to amaze me
The days of judgemental hypocritical puritanical Subjugation are over.
Conservatives lie to change our true history. Time to stop fighting each other & come together
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
Because, nobody thinks this is only about transgender people, right? The bigots hate us all.
They are literally erasing history
Germany in the 1930's they said they didn't understand were just doing their jobs. The motto is NEVER AGAIN. You cannot feign ignorance this time.
Should I still pay taxes?
Remember that taxes come before life, if I’m not mistaken.
Except when your president. Of course.
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I exist here, and they even paid my srs
And with a thin smile, it fluffs the pillow, smooths the sheets, and whispers, ‘Rest now—I’ll take it from here."
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I need to write them down. On every platform.
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
That'll save the US taxpayer billions without affecting services and jobs. 🤔
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/albert-cashier
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Nation full of cowards.
If they say they were "forced" before, they are even worse cowards.
How is the democracy expected to survive, when most of the nation is servile or does not care at all?
NPS: “The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?”
Elon bent on his promise.
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
First the "T", then the "Q+" a few hours later.
And the took down the reaching resources.
Screenshots from the site, with two from the Internet Archive crawl of Feb 13th. (Underlining is mine.)
my eyeliner was smeared and I thanked her for telling me.
I’m sorry that there’s such a battle now. Vulnerable people should be protected
Nothing happens. It’s all ado about nothing. The only reason why people are vocal about it is because they want control
In my experience, less than 2% of LGBTQ I’ve met were nasty towards me. 100% of maga are nasty. I know which group I’ll stand with.
Trans rights are human rights.
Probably thinks they grow on trees like money.
They're obeying in advance.
With the new government, a better administration will preside over the parks.
Such behavior is utterly intolerable and hearkens back to the darkest chapters of history.
MAGA is everything the dream of Star Trek is not!
Peace ✌️
* Baba Booey
It’s childish and dumb.
Clearly trans women were barely involved! Certainly no one needed to even raise their voice.
And here it is now: https://www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm
You guys live in a dictatorship. When will you finally decide to fight
Which curiously enough is about 95% of the world's population.
Curious how parochial their "God" seems to be.