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The Trump administration has erased references to transgender people from the New York Stonewall National Monument.
In it National Parks Service WebsiteThe acronym LGBTQ+ has shortened LGB, which remains in lesbian, gay and bisexual.
Other government websites have also changed after President Donald Trump signed an order that recognizes only two sexes, men and women, on their first day in office.
The activists denounced the move on Friday and celebrated a protest on the site, which is the first national monument of the country dedicated to lesbian history, gay, bisexual and transgender.
“There is no pride without trans people leading that fight!” Wrote Stacy Lentz, co -owner of Stonewall Inn and CEO of the Stonewall Inn Give Back initiative on Instagram on a publication that announced the protest.
“Try to erase them from the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement will not happen!”
The Department of Public Affairs of the National Parks Service said that the agency had taken the actions to comply with the Executive Order signed by President Trump, which described “to restore the biological truth to the federal government,” according to a statement sent to the New York Times .
The BBC has contacted the national parks service to comment.
In an earlier version of the Parks Service website, saved by the Digital Web File Wayback, the monument Main page Read: “Before the 1960s, almost all about living openly as a lesbian person, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) was illegal.”
The updated website now says: “Before the 1960s, almost all about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal.”
Some other references to transgender people remain on the website, including the founding document For the National Monument Stonewall.
A 1969 police incursion at the Inn Gay Bar Stonewall in New York led to disturbances, which marked a great turning point in the impulse for gay equality.
Former President Barack Obama was appointed by a national monument of the United States in 2016. The monument covers 7.7 acres of land, including near Christopher Park.
In statement On Thursday, Stonewall Inn and Stonewall Inn Give Back Initiative said it was “outraged” by changes.
“This shameless act of deletion not only distorts the truth of our history, but also dishonor the immense contributions of the transgender person,” the statement said.
New York governor Kathy Hochul, described the “cruel and petty” change.
The protest against changes on the website took place next to the Stonewall monument on Friday. The protesters maintained signs with signs such as “National Parks Service of the Parks without a T” without a T “.
