Trans People protest against Stonewall National Monument Censuur

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers and their allies gathered on Friday outside the Stonewall Inn to manifest what the Trump administration tried to erase in government records: that transgender and strange people have demonstrated, protested and occasionally fought in the American History for their civil rights and human rights.

On Thursday evening, the National Parks Service, act on orders from the White Houseknew every mention of “transgender” and “queer” people from the official website for the Stonewall National Monument.

It was a brutal act of historical revisionism of the government. On June 28, 1969, Transgender and Queer New Yorkers fought back against discriminatory police -raids in what is now known as the Stonewall riotsGalvanizing the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement and marking a historical response to repressive state violence and social marginalization. Among other things, the riots-Die are sometimes called a rebellion or uprising as a precursor of modern proud parades around the world.

The then President Barack Obama officially assigned The Stonewall Inn and the surrounding areas such as the “Stonewall National Monument” in 2016. But now, instead of the federal government marking The uprising as ‘a milestone in the search for LGBTQ+ civil rights’, the government website for the Stonewall National Monument acknowledged Only the “LGB.”

On Friday, Transgender and Queer New Yorkers and their allies said that the change – part of a wave of the new administration that focuses on transgender people – would not last.

“Transmensen have been here since the beginning of time,” said Tanya Asapansa-Johnson Walker, one prominent transactivist He spoke on the protest. “We fought in all wars. We are makers. We have families and children. We are just as well part of this world as someone else. We are here to stay and we will not be deleted by a Christo-fascist, neo-Nazi government. ”

Walker said she had a panic attack on the realization of the government’s website for Stonewall was removed from queer and transgender people, given the role Activists such as Marsha P. Johnson played in shaping the modern understanding of LGBTQ+ rights. She also noticed that she was an American veteran – “I didn’t say I had done that trace– and argued that President Donald Trump attempt Excluding transgender people from military service was unconstitutional.

“And they have the guts to cross to have their necks,” said Walker. “Jesus Christ did not hate any strange people or transmeners.”

Listening to the speeches from just outside the gates of Christopher Park, opposite the Stonewall Inn, Katherine Rose Turbes, who is not -binary, told Huffpost that the cuts on the Stonewall government website were ‘terrible’.

“We will not stand for erasing the people who fought for us to have rights while we live today,” they said. “The government could say:” This is what Stonewall was, “” ” [but] We say: ‘No, we know what Stonewall was. And we are here to protect that history. ” ‘

Others on Friday’s protest pointed to Trump’s targeting on outgroups transmates, immigrants, activists-and a distraction tactics to deduce from unpopular aspects of their agenda.

“They try to use Transmensen as scapegoats to cover all these social provisions – so that they can give the money to the billionaires,” said Renée Imperato, a long time leader In the trans -community of New York, who courted in Christopher Park after the protest has been demolished. (Huis Republicans Wednesday issued A budget plan with enormous tax cuts for the rich in addition to deep cuts on social services that benefit the poor and working class people.)

“Fascists” such as Trump and Elon Musk “remained in power by two things: Divide and Conquer,” Imperato added. “And they have been doing that since the history of this country, whether it is black from White, Latinx from Asian, indigenous people – that is how they stay in power. And if they couldn’t do it, they would be in the garbage can of history. ‘

“These capitalist parasites never have enough. And now they want our blood. ‘

The Purge of the Stonewall National Monument website was only the newest attack on transmensen of the Trump-Administration, who also tried to eliminate access to gender-confirming care for transgender people of 19 and younger (a movement placed by two federal judges); Transmensen refuse the right to correct their passports; Bar Trans -Athletes of women’s sports; Research schools promoting “gender ideology”; Delete data about transmensen from government websites; and transfer transgender federal prisoners to facilities that correspond to their gender assigned to birth. (That last step was also paused by a judge.)

Friday’s demonstration – which followed a growing wave of protests throughout the country for LGBTQ+ rights – was a show of organizational capacity. The change of the Stonewall government website took place on Thursday evening and groups such as ACT -UP are sent quickly to call to action For a 12 -hour protest the next day. Despite the temperatures around the freezing point, the crowd was energetic and remained for more than an hour when different speakers shots against the administration.

“We have done what we always do, namely that we have just started contacting our networks,” said Cathy Renna, communication director for the National LGBTQ Task Force, who helped organize and spoke during Friday’s demonstration. Renna said she was proud of the turnout and said that LGBTQ+ people and their allies had to make noise on the street – to tell the country: “We are not going anywhere.”

“Most people say they don’t know someone who is trans,” said Renna. “And so we have to change that, because what we know is that if you know someone who identifies as LGBTQ, you have a much more chance of better understanding who we are and standing up for the community.”

The show in force too created a sense of solidarity in the light of the attempt of the administration to split transgender people away from the LGBTQ+ community.

“We have people here who are ready to fight for us, whatever happens,” said a protest visitor, Skyler Brooksby. ‘I fought for so long to be who I am now, and I will not let it [Trump] Stop that I am the real me, the true girl I am. ‘

“We have to unite,” said another, Samy Nemir Olivares. “Today is for LGBTQ, Transmensen. Tomorrow is for immigrants, for mothers, for teachers. We will all be hit by what is clearly an authoritarian, fascist government. “

Mackenzie, who is not -binair and refused to give a surname, said that the protest on Friday made them think of the Black Lives Matter movement, when transgendants “came up for us, and that is.”

“You can’t erase history, it has already happened. And we need our trans -brothers and sisters and queer brothers and sisters for the real history, “they said.

“Many people here not only had to be deleted, but only [also to] Remember that people are fighting for us, and we can also be people who fight for others. ‘

Real questions continue to exist about the extent to which social institutions such as universities, non-profit organizations and hospitals, as well as companies with profit motive, will deliver the transphobic policy of the White House.

Speakers on Friday called on politicians to “get their damn shit together.” And they condemned as ‘fake bondmen’ companies, such as Google and Target, who participated in Pride parties in the past, but apparently have been in recent months reverse road From supporting the LGBTQ+ community.

In a telephone interview Friday, Ben Garcia, executive director of the American LGBTQ+ Museum, said he hoped for “greater courage” of institutions, and condemned the “Rush to Comply” with the various executive orders of Trump, even because they were confronted with with Continuous judicial challenges. For example, some hospitals soon stopped gender-confirming care for 19-and-under people, although a federal judge quickly demanded the Order of Trump.

The administration, Garcia said, tried to separate transgender and queer -identifying people from the larger LGBTQ+ movement.

“People who look at social movements acknowledge that there is a pendulum effect that happens, and we are in the wrong end of a fast -moving garland,” he said. Fortunately, Garcia added: “We know that resistance – fighting for our essential human rights, working against erasing a whole category of people – is something we are good at. It is something that we have had to do for decades, and it is something that we know how to do. “

“So it’s really good, in today’s protest to see the power of our community rising forward,” he said.