“Stonewall would not be Stonewall without the T,” trans demonstrator Chloe Elentari told Salon. “National Park Service: You can’t spell history without a T,” one sign read. Another demonstrator wrote the word “transgender” on a sign noting the monument.

The New York City monument is based in a tiny park across the street from the Stonewall Inn, a bar that became ground zero for the gay rights movement.

People protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's administration's move to restrict transgender rights, at the Stonewall Inn and the Stonewall National Monument, in New York City, U.S., February 14,

Hundreds of people gathered at the Greenwich Village site to condemn what they saw as a chilling strike against the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement.

After the words “transgender” and “queer” were removed from the National Park Service’s website for the Stonewall National Monument, a landmark of the LGBTQ pride movement in New York City, protesters filled nearby Christopher Park Friday with a simple message: “You can’t erase us.

By Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK (Reuters) -Several hundred people with LGBTQ flags rallied at the Stonewall National Monument on Friday, a day after references to transgender Americans disappeared from the U.