The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative have condemned the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. They argue that this act of erasure distorts history and dishonors the contributions of transgender individuals who were instrumental in the Stonewall Riots and the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
The National Park Service has removed mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall . Not only did they remove the 'Transgender' but changed 'LGBTQ+' to 'LGBQ+'. The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history, transgender legislative researcher and activist Allison Chapman said.
The Park Service’s public affairs department said the website changes were made to comply with Donald Trump’s directive, which requires the federal government to recognize only male and female as legal genders. Following this directive, agencies like the State Department, Centers for Disease Control, and Department of Veterans Affairs have made similar changes. The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website, the Stonewall Inn said in a statement. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals — especially transgender women of color — who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights. Trans activists say that by stripping references to transgender and queer people from the Stonewall National Monument website, the Park Service is erasing a crucial part of the history it is meant to preserve. Trans women were some of the most influential activists behind the Stonewall movement and what followed. Three articles of clothing laws were why raids happened, transgender journalist and activist Erin Reed said. Although no law explicitly required Americans to wear at least three articles of clothing matching their assigned sex, queer historian Hugh Ryan said police frequently used various statutes — informally known in queer circles as the “three-article rule” — to criminalize and arrest people who defied gender norms. Transgender and gender-nonconforming people were relentlessly policed — transgender women, drag queens, and homeless LGBTQ youth — fought back, sparking a movement that became ahow the Trump administration even went so far as to remove mentions of Sylvia Rivera’s advocacy for trans rights from the Stonewall National Monument website. The page now reads: “At a young age Sylvia began fighting for gay and rights.” Rivera was a drag queen, gay liberationist, and transgender rights activist who. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and countless other trans and gender-nonconforming individuals fought bravely, and often at great personal risk, to push back against oppressive systems. Their courage, sacrifice, and leadership were central to the resistance we now celebrate as the foundation of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Protesters gathered on Friday at Christopher Park, which is across the street from the Stonewall Inn. They condemned the removal of transgender history from the Stonewall National Monument website. As Donald Trump is inaugurated a second time, independent media organizations are faced with urgent mandates: Tell the truth more loudly than ever before. Do that work even as our standard modes of distribution (such as social media platforms) are being manipulated and curtailed by forces of fascist repression and ruthless capitalism. Do that work even as journalism and journalists face targeted attacks, including from the government itself. And do that work in community, never forgetting that we’re not shouting into a faceless void – we’re reaching out to real people amid a life-threatening political climate. Our task is formidable, and it requires us to ground ourselves in our principles, remind ourselves of our utility, dig in and commit. As a dizzying number of corporate news organizations – either through need or greed – rush to implement new ways to further monetize their content, and others acquiesce to Trump’s wishes, now is a time for movement media-makers to double down on community-first models. We are reaffirming our commitments on this front: We won’t run ads or have a paywall because we believe that everyone should have access to information, and that access should exist without barriers and free of distractions from craven corporate interests. We recognize the implications for democracy when information-seekers click a link only to find the article trapped behind a paywall or buried on a page with dozens of invasive ads. The laws of capitalism dictate an unending increase in monetization, and much of the media simply follows those laws. But many of our peers are dedicating ourselves to following other paths – a commitment which feels vital in a moment when corporations are evermore overtly embedded in government
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