National Park Service suspends webpage with info about transgender community, following Trump order
The National Park Service (NPS) removed one of the pro-LGBT pages on its website but didn't get rid of other pro-LGBT webpages.
The National Park Service has modified an agency webpage with information about the country's LGBTQ+ community, following an executive order by President Trump on "restoring biological truth to the federal government."
The agency, on its web page dedicated to the Stonewall National Monument in New York, first deleted “transgender” and “queer” from the LGBTQ+ acronym previously displayed on the site. The site on Thursday read “LGB” for lesbian, gay and bisexual, as first reported Thursday by The New York Times.
The Park Service’s public affairs department, according to the New York Times, said "the agency had taken the actions to carry out an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office that was described as 'restoring biological truth to the federal government' and a second order signed by the acting secretary of the interior last month."
On Friday, the Stonewall page appeared to have been temporarily taken down and displayed only a message reading: "This page is currently being worked on. Please check back later."
And as of early Friday morning, several other references to the transgender community remain on the website, including the founding document for the Stonewall National Monument, historical pages on Rivera and Johnson, and other references to LGBTQ history, according to NBC News.
Earlier this week, the far-right X account Libs of TikTok pointed out the page, dedicated to a gay rights demonstration in New York City in 1969, pointed out the page had information on such groups as Drag Pride and Pink Triangle and their flags.