The Trump administration has removed most references to transgender individuals from the Stonewall National Monument website/Jennifer Bain file

Editor's note: This updates to add reaction from the Sierra Club.

The Trump administration, taking another page out of the far-right Project 2025 manifesto, has erased "transgender" from the Stonewall National Monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights and history.

The National Park Service on Thursday removed the "T," as well as the "Q," from LGBTQ in the first sentence on the monument's webpage. The previous webpage can be found in the Internet Archive. The Park Service also erased "transgender" from most of the site, though there remained mention of the "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center."

Transgender individuals were targeted in Project 2025, saying "children suffer the toxic normalization of transgenderism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries" and that "[P]ornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women."

On his first day back in office President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that "women are biologically female, and men are biologically male."

"... ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women's domestic abuse shelters to women's workplace showers," the order said.

Timothy Leonard, the Northeast program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, took exception to the Park Service's action.

"The National Park Service exists to not only protect and preserve our most cherished places but to educate its millions of annual national park visitors about the inclusive, full history of America. Erasing letters or webpages does not change the history or the contributions of our transgender community members at Stonewall or anywhere else," he said. "History was made here and civil rights were earned because of Stonewall. And we’re committed to ensuring more people know that story and how it continues to influence America today. Stonewall inspires and our parks must continue to include diverse stories that welcome and represent the people that shaped our nation.”

At the Sierra Club, Jackie Ostfeld, director of the organization's Outdoors for All campaign, said that, "Not only should our public lands be welcoming and inclusive to all people, regardless of their gender, sex, or sexuality, but women and members of the transgender and queer communities have always played a critical role in the legacy and history of this country. Removing acknowledgements of their presence in our national monuments and historical sites is an attempt at erasure, a denial of existence and a tool of oppression; these short-sighted moves will never erase the positive contributions LGBTQ+ communities and women have had and will continue to have on our nation and culture."