A group of National Park Service employees launched a website Monday that displays the stories of transgender people that were recently expunged from park service websites by the Trump administration.
The Resistance Rangers — a group that describes itself as more than 1,000 current and former NPS employees — compiled the deleted content from online internet archives. The website, dubbed “Rangers Uncensored,” was announced Monday to coincide with Transgender Day of Visibility, where stories of the lives and experiences of trans people are shared on social media to counter prejudice.
“As America’s storytellers, rangers have a duty to tell all Americans’ stories,” an unnamed NPS historian with the Resistance Rangers said in a news release. The group said the historian was not named out of fear of retribution. “Attempts to rewrite the truth and erase Americans, their identities, and their impact on our country are unacceptable. Two-spirit, transgender, and gender-nonconforming stories are intrinsic to the fabric of our nation.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office making it the policy of the U.S. government to only recognize people as female or male. That order led to others, such as a ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military — which is currently being fought in federal courts — and sweeping edits of government websites.
