The National Park Service today carried out an absurd Trump administration order and, at Stonewall National Park in New York City, outside the Stonewall Inn, widely regarded as the birthplace of the LGBTQ civil rights movement, removed all references to transgender people. But we will not allow the Trump/Elon Musk effort to invent a story that erases Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, that forgets the presence of Miss Major and the other transgender heroes who said “No more,” and whose fighting back led to the Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969.
“Trump and Musk’s attempt to claim that this was a quest for what they call LGB rights is as doomed as the five anti transgender executive orders Trump signed in his first two weeks in office,” said Jeremy Comeau, the President of the National Federation of Stonewall Democrats. “We note with pleasure that Trump’s ban on gender affirming care has already been enjoined in the federal courts, and we look forward to more defeats for bigotry and discrimination.”
Kristen Browde, the Vice President of the Federation as well as the President of the Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus, and an out, transgender woman said, “An aging kleptocrat and an unprincipled tech bro can try to rewrite history, but they will, without question, fail. We will never forget Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Miss Major, nor will we forget the trans women of the Compton Cafeteria in San Francisco, who stood up to anti-trans discrimination in 1966. We will not be erased, by Trump, by Musk, or by anyone else.”
