The Trump administration has deleted references to transsexual people from the Stonewall National Monument Website in New York.
To Website for national park servicesThe acronym LGBTQ+ is shortened to LGB, standing for lesbians, gay and bisexual.
Other government websites were also changed after President Donald Trump signed an order recognizing only two sexes – men and women – on his first day of service.
The activists denied this move on Friday and held a protest of the place, which is the first national monument of the country dedicated to the history of lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender history.
“There is no pride without trance people who are fighting!”, Stacey Lenz, the co -owner of Stonewall Inn and CEO of The Stonewall Inn takes an initiative to return, writes on Instagram in a publication that announces the protest.
“The attempt to delete them from the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement will not happen!”
The National Park Public Affairs Department said the Agency had taken the actions to comply with the executive order signed by President Trump, which describes “restoration of biological truth to the federal government,” said a statement sent to the New York Times S
The BBC contacted the National Park Service for comment.
On the older version of the Park Service website, preserved by The Digital Web Archive Machine, The Monument's Main page Read: “60 years ago, almost all about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or Queer (LGBTQ+) was illegal.”
The updated web page now reads: “60 years ago, almost all about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) man was illegal.”
Some other references to transgender people remain on the website, Including the founding document for the National Monument of Stounul.
A 1969 police raid at Stonewall Inn's gay bar in New York has led to riots, which marks a major turning point in the impetus to gay equality.
Former President Barack Obama appointed it at the US National Monument in 2016. The monument covers 7.7 acres of land, including the nearby Christopher Park.
In a statement On Thursday, The Stonewall Inn and Inne Inn Stonewall provides a back initiative that he was “outraged” to the changes.
“This screaming act of deletion not only distorts the truth of our history, but also discourages the huge contribution of the transsexual individual,” the statement said.
New York Governor Katie Hochul called the change “cruel and small”.
A protest against changes to the website took place next to the Stoneul Monument on Friday. Posters with signs such as “National Park Service that you cannot write a story without T” from demonstrators.