The National Park Service has removed transgender references from its website commemorating the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, erasing transgender activists such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera who were central to the movement for LGBTQ+ rights.

After the words “transgender” and “queer” were removed from the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument, a landmark of the LGBTQ pride movement in New York City, protesters filled nearby Christopher Park Friday with a simple message: “You can’t erase us.

President Donald Trump's transgender policy began with a Day One executive order delegitimizing gender identity. Now it has encroached on a conspicuous place, removing the word "transgender" from the U.

On Thursday night, the National Parks Service, acting on orders from the White House, erased any mention of “transgender” and “queer” people from the official website for the Stonewall National Monument.

The National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people on its web page for the Stonewall National Monument, which marks the site of the New York City inn where LGBTQ rioters – including now-legendary transgender activists – galvanized a movement for LGBTQ rights.

Voices in the Lower Hudson Valley's LGBTQ+ community react to the removal of transgender references from sites run by the National Park Service.

Stonewall protests against trans erasure in New York City.

LGBTQ+ activists gathered at Christopher Park, just across from the historic Stonewall Inn, to protest against the removal of the words “transgender” and “queer” from the

The website deleted all mentions of "transgender" and "queer" in its history of the Stonewall riots, and only referred to the riots' impact on lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

References to transgender people have been removed from the park service's site following President Trump's order defining sex as only male and female.