Current Events > Ranger fired for hanging transgender flag in Yosemite

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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ranger-fired-hanging-transgender-flag-yosemite-park-visitors-124797614

A Yosemite National Park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan while some park visitors could face prosecution under protest restrictions that have been tightened under President Donald Trump.

Shannon SJ Joslin, a ranger and biologist who studies bats, said they hung a 66-foot wide transgender pride flag on the famous climbing wall that looms over the California park's main thoroughfare for about two hours on May 20 before taking it down voluntarily. A termination letter they received last week accused Joslin of failing to demonstrate acceptable conduct" in their capacity as a biologist and cited the May incident.

I was really hurting because there were a lot of policies coming from the current administration that target trans people, and Im nonbinary, Joslin, 35, told The Associated Press, adding that hanging the flag was their way of saying, Were all safe in national parks.

Joslin said their firing sends the opposite message: "If youre a federal worker and you have any kind of identity that doesnt agree with this current administration, then you must be silent, or you will be eliminated.

Park officials on Tuesday said they were working with the U.S. Justice Department to pursue visitors and workers who violated restrictions on demonstrations at the park that had more than 4 million visitors last year.

The agencies "are pursuing administrative action against several Yosemite National Park employees and possible criminal charges against several park visitors who are alleged to have violated federal laws and regulations related to demonstrations," National Park Service spokesperson Rachel Pawlitz said.

Joslin said a group of seven climbers including two other park rangers hung the flag. The other rangers are on administrative leave pending an investigation, Joslin said.

well im livid again

Fuck the direction this is all going

Right now it's fired, a year or so from now probably criminal charges and imprisonment, we're deteriorating extremely fast with no sings of stopping.

yea I heard about this. Conservatives were celebrating the news

Yeah, never going to a red state ever again. They don't deserve my money anymore.Tennessee was fun and Georgia was fun those times I went. Never again.

Sayoria posted...

Yeah, never going to a red state ever again. They don't deserve my money anymore.Tennessee was fun and Georgia was fun those times I went. Never again.

You may eventually want to leave the country. If you haven't already. I think I remember you being in Europe or something? Unless I'm confused

Anyway, I'd make some plans for the future just in case. America is only going to get worse

Zikten posted...

You may eventually want to leave the country. If you haven't already. I think I remember you being in Europe or something? Unless I'm confused

Anyway, I'd make some plans for the future just in case. America is only going to get worse

I am a masshole.

And yeah, I have actually told my family I'd have moved out by now if it wasn't for them. I have a massively hard time mentally relocating away from them. I wish if I were to leave, I could take them. And my job pins me to two countries I could move to. Ireland or Japan. Even if I moved and could take them, they'd never survive in Japan and Ireland is less aligned with my work time.

Remember when people said it was pointless to give up basic human rights to be performative about Bernie, Gaza or groceries

sfcalimari posted...

Remember when people said it was pointless to give up basic human rights to be performative about Bernie, Gaza or groceries

I dont think transpeople were the ones doing this

Termination letter? Please link me to the go fund me.

2 hours is reasonable enough to make hanging the Pride flag in a national park for 2 hours a weekly tradition.

Sayoria posted...

Yeah, never going to a red state ever again. They don't deserve my money anymore.Tennessee was fun and Georgia was fun those times I went. Never again.

As a native Tennessean Im so sorry my state is ass

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In theory, he's not supposed to let his "political" views get in the way of doing public work. The same way that woman who was blocking gay marriage certificates in Kentucky or wherever shouldn't be allowed to.

Of course, that's not actually how it works, and that woman who was blocking gay marriage certificates is likely going to be allowed to do that again, and I don't know if I would consider "This minority being discriminated against is valid" is a very political take.

Remember when Trump completely botched and mispronounced Yosemite. I'm honestly surprised he didn't put out an EO changing the pronounciation to match his word.

BlueBoy675 posted...

As a native Tennessean Im so sorry my state is ass

Diito. -_-;