- The National Park Service has removed all transgender references from the Stonewall National Monument’s website. The monument was the first national park site in the U.S. to be dedicated to America’s LGBTQ+ history.
- The removal of transgender verbiage is in line with President Trump’s executive order, requiring the federal government to only recognize two genders: male and female.
- Critics of the move call it “cruel and petty” and a “blatant act of erasure.”
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The National Park Service is the latest federal government agency to remove references to the transgender community on its webpages. For one page in particular, the move is drawing even more attention.
The park service has swapped out all its references to the LGBTQ+ community on the Stonewall National Monument’s page in favor of just LGB.
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What is the Stonewall National Monument?
The monument commemorates the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
The riots marked a new beginning for the gay rights movement in the United States. The Stonewall Inn became the first national park site dedicated to LGBTQ+ history in 2016.
Why take out the TQ+?
The change on the park service’s website brings its verbiage in line with an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day back in office, requiring the federal government to recognize only two genders: male and female.
How are people reacting?
New York’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul criticized the move in a post on X, calling it “cruel and petty.”
Hochul added, “Transgender people play a critical role in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights — and New York will never allow their contributions to be erased.”
This is just cruel and petty.
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) February 13, 2025
Transgender people play a critical role in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights — and New York will never allow their contributions to be erased. https://t.co/flIi3avXSU
The Stonewall Inn and the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting social intolerance aimed at the LGBTQ+ community, released a tandem statement.
The statement said they’re “outraged and appalled” by the removal of the word transgender, calling it a “blatant act of erasure” that “distorts the truth of our history.”
