Yes but how long had they been there in the first place?

The Trump administration has erased references to transgender people from New York’s Stonewall National Monument website.

Well guess what, the Stonewall monument started life as a monument to lesbians and gay men. The T was added later. Trump is the wrong person to meddle in all this, but it’s still true that the T colonizes everything it can reach.

On the National Park Service website, the acronym LGBTQ+ has been shortened to LGB, standing for lesbian, gay and bisexual.

No, other way around. LGB was lengthened to LGBTQ+ even though the T is not the same as the LGB and the Q is just empty. “The acronym” hasn’t been LGBTQ+ forever, handed down by Moses’s second cousin. The T and the Q and the + are late additions, and it’s not written in stone (literally) that they must be kept.

Activists denounced the move on Friday and held a protest at the site, which is the country’s first national monument dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history.

But it was originally dedicated to lesbian and gay history. Transgender elbowed its way in much later. Transgender is not the same thing, and it’s not an eternal truth that it belongs with lesbian and gay. How’s about it gets its own national monument instead?

H/t Sackbut