Transgender references removed from Stonewall monument website
The Stonewall website now says:
“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 relatively recent addition of TQ++ is gone, which makes it more accurate. Whatever the impetus for removing it, the result is the restoration of historical fact - there was nothing 'transgender' about the Stonewall riots, as the concept hadn't been invented in 1969. The gender-nonconforming men - transvestites, drag queens - who were there were there because they were gay men at a gay bar.
It's worth noting that the website is still all about LGB history and rights, so removing the TQ++ does not mean automatic homophobia.
Rewriting it as a trans uprising also wrote Stomé DeLarverie out of history. She was the Black lesbian who - allegedly - was the first to throw a punch to resist the police raid on the Stonewall bar, hence 'Stormé Started It'.
But even a Black lesbian drag king was too female for the trans version, so the instigators had to be two men who are retrospectively identified as transgender - obviously they couldn't have been transgender in 1969.
This has caused uproar from the trans community: 'you can't spell history without the T' , accusations of censorship, re-writing of history, erasure, distortion of the truth, etc etc.
Oh the irony!
This is 'LGB✂T' in action.