Posted on 08/19/2025 8:31:19 AM PDT by DFG
Yosemite National Park fired a park ranger last week for hanging a transgender pride flag on the park’s iconic El Capitan rock formation in May.
Shannon “SJ” Joslin, who has been a ranger and a wildlife biologist in the park since 2021, said they were fired Aug. 12 from what they described as their dream job. They said park leadership told them they “failed to demonstrate acceptable conduct” in their role by participating in the trans flag display.
“I’m devastated,” said Joslin, who is trans and uses they/them pronouns. “We don’t take our positions in the park service to make money or to have any kind of huge career gains. We take it because we love the places that we work. I have a Ph.D. in bioinformatics, and I could be making a lot more money in Silicon Valley, which is only a few hours away, but I made career choices to position myself in Yosemite National Park, because this is the place that I love the most.”
When asked for comment on Joslin’s termination, a spokesperson for Yosemite National Park said the National Park Service, which oversees Yosemite, “is pursuing administrative action against multiple National Park Service employees for failing to follow National Park Service regulations.” The spokesperson declined to say which regulations the employees allegedly violated.
Rachel Pawlitz, a spokesperson for the NPS, said the agency and the Justice Department “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.”
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Although the National Parks Service is not crucial to national security or economic prosperity, there are likely hundreds of park rangers who adhere to a similar ideology but are not so foolish as to fly a pervert flag in a prominent area on Federal property. Like the Federal attorney who threw a Subway sandwich on an ICE agent, there are hotheads who will risk their careers and even possible prosecution to make a point. However, the real danger, like that of an iceberg, is with the unseen part, the hundreds of park rangers who will bide their time and passively resist and drag their feet in implementing Trump Administration changes.
These biden lib holdovers remind me of the Japanese soldiers in WWII that nobody told the war was over.
There’s a new Sheriff in town morons....thanks for playing.
Guess he didn’t know about the results of the last election!!
No surprise there.
Is this individual a male or female?
They intentionally omit this information.
We know it identifies as transgender, but what is the real sex of the person? What sex does it identify as? Does it purposely muddy the waters on that issue?
Is a transgender flag different from a LBQTXYZ flag?
Shannon Joslin, “non-binary”. Help yourself!
I hate f*****g Marxists.
It uses “they/them” pronouns, which are plural, so it could be both male and/or female. Since it claims to be two people, can they marry themselves and thereby claim tax advantages?
I doubt it too.
The few jobs like this at Google are now gone forever.
Maybe but I default to the wisdom from the movie "The Untouchables", when Kevin Costner is barking at Sean Connery for not following up with more questions when he identifies himself as a Treasury Agent... "Who would claim to be that, who wasn't?"
Good!
The government is full of them.
The queer bureaucRATs, once in there, hired more and more of these whackjobs as government “employees”.
Remember Cringing Pierre, Pete Buttigieg, Sam Brinton and Rachel Levine?
On and on it goes, all the way down the RAT food chain.
“Said “they” were fired? How about HE was fired, or SHE, depending on which it is.”
I would go with IT, proceeded by SH, of course.
I hate this line/lie so much...
NO JOSLIN DOES NOT USE THEY/THEM PRONOUNS!!!
Joslin does not speak about Joslin in the 3rd person. Joslin uses "me, myself, and I" when speaking about Joslin.
Further, even if/when speaking in a mirror, Joslin uses "you", in the 2nd person.
Joslin has never and will never refer to Joslin in the 3rd person.
This moronic note is a demand that all other humans, when speaking about Joslin, must use certain words in doing so. Thus, the ridiculous phrase should read "Joslin insists that everyone memorize the rule that THEY/THEM must be the pronouns used when attempting to speak about Joslin."
This then opens up the next illogical and ridiculous grammatical conundrum when we speak about a group of folks, where Joslin and other deluded fools are included, and there are multiple differing (and even opposing) MANDATED TERMS to be used. Do we resort to inventing THEX/THEZ now???
Stop being so deluded and entitled that you think you can demand which words others can use to describe you, and that you are more important than basic grammar rules. You ain't.
Oh, just stop that nonsense, NBC.
This is why the phrase “It sucks to be THEM” came into existence.
You also dont take jobs to then use that job as a prop to make internet posts of personal views you shouldn’t be expressing while on the job.
“Phd in bioinformatics” but doesn’t believe in male or female biology. Bye bue!
Free Speech doesn’t include defacing public property................
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