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The National Parks Service have purged trans people from the website on the Stonewall National Monument

Trans people threw the first bricks at Stonewall, this is explicitly genocidal and revisionist, they are removing trans people from our history, they don’t want us to exist

The fact they can’t even acknowledge us in platitudes is fucking terrifying, they can’t even say T in LGBT on the website for Stonewall Inn. Stonewall was the start of our liberation and we can’t and could never have liberation without trans people and specifically trans women like Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera

During the raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969, the police forced all women in the bar to undergo genital inspections in the restroom so they could arrest trans women and drag queens. That was what started the riots, people refused to comply with the police attempting to target trans women. It is explicitly revisionist to separate trans people from the stonewall uprising

worth adding that the actual stonewall inn made an official statement

“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 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. 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.ALT
Let us be clear: Stonewall is transgender history. 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 systens. Their courage, sacrifice, and leadership were central to the resistance we now celebrate as the foundation of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movementALT
This decision to erase the word transgender' is a deliberate attempt to erase our history and marginalize the very people who paved the way for many victories we have achieved as a community. It is a direct attack on transgender people, especially transgender women of color, who continue to face violence, discrimination, and erasure at every turn. SIGBIALT
We demand the immediate restoration of the word transgender on the Stonewall National Monument website We will not stand by while the legacies of our transgender siblings are erased from the history books. The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative stands unwaveringly in solidarity with the transgender community and all who fight for full equality, and we will not rest until this grave injustice is corrected. SIGBIALT

#it’s ‘good’ to know that the nps is under attack instead of doing this willingly#and by 'good’ i mean 'at least they’re an ally instead of another enemy in this coup’