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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Free Speech doesn’t include defacing public property................
Go hang a MAGA flag on El Capitan and see what happens.
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I don’t think anything can be placed on El Capitan. You must remove all ropes and any protection you place on climb. Only bolted anchors the parks climbing rangers have placed can stay. Any flag placed will be taken down. She knew better.
Where do you the heterosexual flag? Is there even a heterosexual flag?
When the media started that inappropriate plural crap a few years ago it took a long time for me to stop re-reading the articles, thinking age has finally lead me to careless reading comprehension.
I’m not screwed up and neither are you. The problem is a media that presumes that it can make everyone share a mass delusion as if it’s a long-needed correction for God’s ‘mistake’. Their hubris and arrogance is astonishing while their actions further mislead the foolish - promoting falsehoods instead of furthering knowledge.
So glad it can now go make millions of dollars in silicon valley.
Maybe there should be a flag for each disease, e.g. a tuberculosis flag, a kidney disease flag, a siamese-twin flag, a schizophrenia flag--that sort of thing.
Or maybe it would be better just to have one flag for all illnesses: an illness flag.
NPS is pretty strict about things
Aaaahhhh, tooo bad, so sad. Booo hooo hooo.
See? FA,FO
It’s been apparent that straight men and women keep their own counsel regarding their orientation, while gay and trans men and women require the entire world to know their status.
NBC still pounding on the Narrative Drum. As if there were any doubt, the man involved knew perfectly well what he was doing and the privilege he was abusing for his politics. Glad to help.
“I have a Ph.D. in bioinformatics, and I could be making a lot more money in Silicon Valley,”
Then you should do that. Since you inexplicably use “They” pronouns in some sort of mental illness display, you have to use “We” not “I” however. Dumb ass.
Good. It’s time for the sexual weirdo community to get real.
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