See the Stonewall protests against trans erasure

There's no Stonewall without the "T."

On Friday, New York City's LGBTQ+ community gathered at the Stonewall National Monument to protest the National Park Service's erasure of transgender terms from its website. The protests follow a Thursday scrub of the "T" from the acronym, which was slammed by LGBTQ+ activists and organizations.

"Let us be clear: Stonewall is transgender history. Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and countless other trans and gender-nonconforming individuals fought bravely, and often at great personal risk, to push back against oppressive systems," The Stonewall Inn and the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative wrote in a statement. "Their courage, sacrifice, and leadership were central to the resistance we now celebrate as the foundation of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement."

The official statement continued, "We demand the immediate restoration of the word 'transgender' on the Stonewall National Monument website. We will not stand by while the legacies of our transgender siblings are erased from the history books. The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative stands unwaveringly in solidarity with the transgender community and all who fight for full equality, and we will not rest until this grave injustice is corrected."

Scroll through to see pictures of the protest.