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Case 015 · Government memory

They edited the monument's history
with a deletion.

In January 2025, the National Park Service described Stonewall as a milestone in “LGBTQ+ civil rights.” In February, the same sentence said “LGB.” “Transgender” and “queer” had disappeared.12

January to February 2025Archived before-and-after pages

The established record

Saved copies of the same official page show three direct edits. “LGBTQ+ person” became “LGB person.” “LGBTQ+ civil rights” became “LGB civil rights.” And “LGBTQ+ Flags” became “LGB Flags.”12 An NPS fact sheet from the same time used the new term again and again.3

This was not an old page expiring

The January 15 and February 20 captures show the same Stonewall National Monument homepage. Only the wording changed.12 The place, the topic, and the nearby sentences stayed. The identity words changed.

The exact edit

Before: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person.
After: lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person.

Why Stonewall makes the edit matter

President Obama named the monument under the Antiquities Act. The goal was to save and explain the Stonewall uprising and its place in American civil-rights history.4 The proclamation itself names lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. So changing those names changes how the government describes the very people the site exists to honor.

This does not mean every mention of transgender people vanished from every Park Service page. It means one thing. The main public description of this monument was narrowed. And the before-and-after record makes that change easy to see.

The administration stated its rule

Executive Order 14168 told the government to recognize two sexes. It ordered agencies to remove material that, in the order's words, promoted “gender ideology.”5 The Stonewall page does not name who made these edits or who approved them. So this page does not claim to know who pressed the keys.

You do not need to read minds to ask the real question. Should a government keep an uncomfortable history as it happened? Or should it rewrite the public description to fit the current administration's words?

Established

The exact NPS wording before and after. The revised NPS fact sheet. Stonewall's legal purpose to preserve history. And the administration's word policy across the government.

Not established

The person who made the edit. The full approval chain. The removal of all transgender history from NPS. Or any change to the events themselves.

Receipts 001 to 005

The deletion, preserved

Receipt 001 · Archived NPS pageStonewall homepage before the editJanuary 15, 2025 · LGBTQ+Receipt 002 · Archived NPS pageStonewall homepage after the editFebruary 20, 2025 · LGBReceipt 003 · National Park ServiceStonewall National Monument fact sheetFebruary 14, 2025 · revised terminologyReceipt 004 · Presidential proclamationEstablishment of Stonewall National MonumentJune 24, 2016 · purpose, history, and interpretation mandateReceipt 005 · Federal RegisterExecutive Order 14168January 20, 2025 · government-wide definitions and directives

Claim map

What each record carries

Receipts 001 to 002
The exact before and after text on the same official homepage.
Receipt 003
The Park Service using the narrowed term at the same time.
Receipt 004
The monument proclamation's stated goal to record, save, and explain the history.
Receipt 005
The administration's definitions and removal order. It does not name the page's editor.
Not established
A named editor. A full chain of cause. Or a service wide deletion of every transgender mention.

Last updated: August 23, 2026.