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"There was no policy prohibiting the display of flags on El Capitan until the day after Joslin and their team hung the trans flag"~ Yosemite National Park fired a trans park ranger last week for hanging a transgender pride flag on the iconic El Capitan in May.
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Joslin, who is 35 and had been going to the park for more than a decade prior to working there, has written Yosemite climbing guidebooks and volunteered to work overtime to help issue hiking permits and manage traffic in the park. As a wildlife biologist, they managed the park’s “big wall bats” program, to study how bats use cliffs and protect them from a deadly disease called white-nose syndrome. Joslin said they came up with the idea to hang the trans pride flag on El Capitan in the spring after President Donald Trump issued a variety of executive orders targeting trans people, including orders to change the federal definition of sex to exclude trans identities, restrict access to trans health care and prohibit trans women from competing in female sports. They also cited the long history of a variety of flags being flown on the rock’s face, including by park employees. For example, park employees flew an upside-down U.S. flag during Yosemite’s firefall event in February to protest the Trump administration’s cuts of National Park Service employees. A group of activists also raised a “Stop the genocide” flag on El Capitan in support of Palestinians in Gaza in June 2024.
August 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM