Trump administration has deleted references to transgender people from the New York website National Monument Stonewall.
On National Park WebsiteThe acronym LGBTQ+ is shortened to LGB, stands for lesbians, gay and bisexual.
Other government websites were also changed after President Donald Trump signed a command that recognized only two sexes – men and women on the first day in power.
On Friday, activists denied the move and held a protest at that place, which is the first national monument in the country dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history.
“There is no pride without trans people who lead the fight!”, Stacy Lentz, co-owner of Stonewall INN and the Executive Director of The Stonewall Inn, wrote on Instagram in the post announcing a protest.
“Trying to delete them from the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement will not happen!”
The Public Relations Department of National Park announced that the Agency had taken action to comply with the executive order signed by President Trump, who described “a return of biological truth to the Federal Government,” said a statement sent to the New York Times.
BBC contacted the National Park service for comment.
On the older version of the Park Service website, saved by the Wayback Machine Digital Web Archive, a monument the main page Read: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about open life as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.”
The updated website now reads: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about open life as lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal.”
Some other references to transgender people remain on the website, including the founder For the national monument of Stonewall.
Police from 1969 at the Stonewall Inn Gay Bar in New York led to a mess, which marked the main milestone in pressure for gay equality.
Former Barack Obama President appointed him an American national monument in 2016. The monument covers 7.7 hectares of land, including a nearby Christopher Park.
In a statement On Thursday, the Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Derfic initiative said she was “outraged” for changes.
“This obvious act of deletion not only distorts the truth of our history, but also rejects the immense contributions of a transgender person,” the statement said.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul called a change “cruel and tiny”.
The protest against changes in the website took place on Friday next to the Stonewall Monument. Posters with signs such as “National Services Park that you can’t write history without T” was held by demonstrators.
