The National Park Service has removed the words “transgender” and “queer” from the website for the Stonewall National Monument in New York, a major landmark for the LGBTQ movement, as it complies with an executive order from President Trump.

The national monument, a park, commemorates the 1969 protests at the Stonewall Inn bar in Greenwich Village in New York City. Gay, lesbian and transgender people at the inn fought back against a police raid on June 28, 1969, and protested for several days afterward. A year later, activists held one of the first pride parades in the U.S. near the scene of the uprising.

The park service’s main page for the monument used to read “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGBTQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement..”

The new language reads: “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights and provided momentum for a movement.”

The move was made to comply with an executive order from Mr. Trump that calls on the government to use “clear and accurate language and policies that recognize women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.”

Two of the individuals who participated in the Stonewall riots and resulting activism, Marsha Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, were transgender, according to a National Park Service page unconnected to the Stonewall National Monument that, as of Friday, had not been taken down or altered.

The bar itself and associated groups have condemned the altered language.

In a post on Instagram, the Stonewall Inn wrote that there is “no LGB without the T,” condemned the Trump administration and announced that protests would be held Friday on nearby Christopher Street.

In another post, the bar’s nonprofit, the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, said they “are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word ’transgender’ from the Stonewall National Monument page… This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals — especially transgender women of color — who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.”

The group also mentioned Johnson and Rivera by name and called for the former wording to be restored.

• Brad Matthews can be reached at bmatthews@washingtontimes.com.