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Cecilia Nowell

US park service erases references to trans people from Stonewall monument website

Brick building with lots of rainbow Pride flags
The Stonewall Inn bar in New York City on 3 June 2019. Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP

The National Park Service eliminated all references to transgender people from its website for the Stonewall national monument on Thursday. The monument commemorates a 1969 riot outside New York City’s historic Stonewall Inn, led by trans women of color, that ignited the contemporary gay rights movement.

The move comes as federal agencies across the country seek to comply with an executive order Donald Trump signed on his first day in office, calling for the US government to define sex as only male or female.

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