"Back in February, the National Park Service (NPS) eliminated the words "queer" and "transgender" from the Stonewall National Monument website. The monument commemorates the Stonewall Uprising, a 1969 riot in New York City for gay liberation - led by transgender women of color - that laid the foundation for Pride celebrations today."
"The decision to remove those references was reportedly made to comply with President Donald Trump's anti-trans executive order, issued the previous month, which sought to "restore" references to supposed "biological truth" within the federal government - a false notion that rejects the widely accepted scientific fact that gender is not binary or solely determined by a person's sexual organs."
"Last week, 72 Democratic lawmakers in Congress signed an open letter demanding that references to transgender and queer people at the Stonewall National Monument be restored - including Rep. Mark Takano (D-California) and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-New York), leaders within the Congressional Equality Caucus, as well as Rep. Dan Goldman (D-New York), who spearheaded the effort."
Federal park officials removed the words "queer" and "transgender" from the Stonewall National Monument website in February. The monument commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, a riot led by transgender women of color that helped spark modern Pride and the LGBTQ civil rights movement. The removals were reportedly made to comply with a presidential executive order invoking "biological truth," a concept that rejects non-binary and gender-identity science. Seventy-two Democratic members of Congress sent an open letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Acting NPS Director Jessica Bowron demanding that explicit references to transgender and queer contributors be restored.
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