US Park Service erases ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot

"Some words" is like saying the ocean has "some water" in it.

And it's even not the article title. The og title is: "US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot".

Trans people started Stonewall, and freedoms we all (including cis and straight people) have today are due to them.

Politics are not the subject of this forum, as much as it sucks that the very existence of trans people is "political" it seems that is here to stay for a bit.

But it should be plainly obvious to anyone from any political background that removing historical information from national monuments is wrong. These events happened and trans people were a primary factor, maybe even the primary factor. It is wrong to erase them.

It's worth noting, this isn't the only national monument that honors a critical point in history for an oppressed group:

- There's a national monument for the Birmingham civil rights movement at a motel that was bombed by the KKK after MLK and civil rights leaders stayed there.

- There's a national monument for the Freedom Riders at a bus station that was attacked by a racist mob.

- There's a national monument for the Springfield, Illinois race riots of 1908 where a white mob attacked and destroyed black homes and businesses, and lynched two people.

- There's a national monument at the site of an Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania.

Will the administration try to remove mentions of civil rights or references to specific races to erase or obfuscate the racial aspect of those atrocities?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_monuments_of_...

Damn. Erasing any mentions of trans people (while leaving "LGB" intact) from a Stonewall monument is so absurd it's almost comedic—the Stonewall riots were very famously centered around trans people and drag performers. Like, when the cops raided the place, they were literally forcing people to strip to perform sex checks! They were trying to arrest people because "cross-dressing" was illegal at the time!

I know the Log Cabin types are still a relative minority, but anyone who thinks these attacks will stop at trans people is deluding themselves. Never mind the fact that so many of these categories overlap, and that bigots rarely care to see the difference. Butch lesbian who wears mens' clothing? Cross-dressing, which to them automatically means you're trans. Straight to jail.

This is tantamount to erasing the word 'slavery' from a monument to the victims of the slave trade.

In the past few years i've skipped pride festivals because I considered them passé, but this underscores why they're so important. Hate mongers continue to try to erase LGBTQ folk. We have to get in the street and continue the fight.

Interesting editorializing of the headline, impish9208.