Trans park ranger fired after transgender delight flag show at Yosemite Park

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The Nationwide Park Service reportedly fired a trans Yosemite Nationwide Park ranger who hung a transgender delight flag throughout the park’s El Capitan rock formation in California earlier this yr.

35-year-old Shannon "SJ" Joslin wrote an Instagram post on Monday claiming to have been fired from the park "for practising my First Modification proper" after hanging the 55-foot by 35-foot flag throughout Yosemite’s iconic rock vacation spot in Could.

Joslin, who's non-binary and makes use of they/them pronouns, claimed to have raised the flag whereas off-duty and as a personal citizen.

"I used to be fired by the non permanent Deputy Superintendent for ‘failing to display acceptable conduct’ in my capability as a Wildlife Biologist for the park. No a part of hanging the flag was finished on work time. NOTHING about it had something to do with my work," Joslin wrote.

A gaggle of individuals, together with Shannon Joslin, a Yosemite Nationwide Park ranger and biologist who was fired, hold a transgender flag on El Capitan in Yosemite Nationwide Park, Calif., Could 20, 2025. (Mitchell Overton by way of AP)

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Joslin flew the flag for about two hours earlier than taking it down and added that after a long time of the apply "nobody" had ever been punished for hanging a flag throughout El Capitan previous to final week.

"I would like my rights and I would like my profession again," Joslin demanded.

In a press release to NBC News , Rachel Pawlitz, a spokesperson for the Nationwide Park Service, stated that the Division of Justice was pursuing "administrative motion" towards a number of Yosemite Nationwide Park staff and "attainable felony costs" towards a number of park guests for allegedly violating legal guidelines concerning demonstrations. She didn't specify the main points of those felony investigations.

"Nonetheless, we need to emphasize that we take the safety of the park’s assets and the expertise of our guests very severely, and won't tolerate violations of legal guidelines and rules that influence these assets and experiences," Pawlitz stated.

Yosemite Nationwide Park enacted a directive banning giant flags and banners from being displayed with out a allow. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu by way of Getty Photographs)

Fox News Digital reached out to Yosemite Nationwide Park and Nationwide Park Companies for additional remark.

Joslin partnered with a coalition referred to as Trans Is Pure to hold the flag in protest of the Trump administration pushing again on transgender and LGBTQ ideology.

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"Elevating this flag within the coronary heart of El Capitan is a celebration of our neighborhood standing in solidarity with one another and all focused teams," Joslin stated in a statement to NBC on the time. "Trans existence isn't up for debate. We're social employees, public servants, dad and mom, and neighbors. Being trans is a pure, stunning a part of human and organic variety. We will solely make progress once we embrace variety, not erase it."

Shortly after the demonstration, the park’s appearing superintendent, Ray McPadden, signed a directive banning "any banner, flag, or signal bigger than fifteen sq. ft…or a sequence or mixture of banners, flags, or indicators that whole greater than fifteen sq. ft" from being displayed with out a allow.

An in depth-up look of the upside-down flag hung in protest at Yosemite Nationwide Park in California. (Brittany Colt, www.brittanycolt.com, @brittanycolt)

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In February, park staffers hung the U.S. flag upside-down on the aspect of El Capitan to protest layoffs by President Donald Trump.

Based on one Yosemite employee, this was finished in response to the Trump administration firing 1,000 newly employed Nationwide Park Service staff.

Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas might be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.