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The National Park Service allegedly fired a Trans Yosemite National Park Ranger, which hung a transgender pride flag at the L Capitan rock formation of the park earlier this year.
35 -year -old Shannon “SJ” wrote Josalin A Instagram post In May on Monday, “to practice my first amendment” was expelled from the park after hanging 55-foot from a 35-foot flag in the prestigious rock destination of Yosemite in May.
Josalin, who is non-binary and uses them/uses pronouns, has claimed that he has raised the flag as an off-duty and a private citizen.
“I was fired by the temporary Deputy Superintendent for the park as a wildlife biologist for the park to ‘fail to display acceptable’. No part of the flag hanging was done at work time. There was nothing about it, nothing about it,” Joselin wrote.
A group of people, including Shannon Josalin, a Yosemite National Park Ranger and a biologist, hanged a transgender flag on L Capiton in Yosemite National Park, California on 20 May, 2025. (Michelle Overton through AP)
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Josalin flew the flag for about two hours before taking it down and said that “no” was punished to hang a flag in L Capiton before the last week after decades of practice.
“I want my rights and I want my career back,” Josalin demanded.
In a statement NBC NewsRachel Pavlitz, a spokesman of the National Park Service, said that the Department of Justice was taking “administrative action” against several Yosemite National Park employees and was violating laws about alleged demonstrations about “potential criminal allegations” against several park visitors. He did not specify the details of these criminal investigations.
“However, we want to emphasize that we take the safety of the park’s resources and the experience of our visitors very seriously, and will not tolerate violations of laws and rules affecting those resources and experiences,” Pavlitz said.
Yosemite National Park gave an instruction to ban large flags and banners from display without permits. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached Yosemite National Park and National Park services for further comments.
Josalin partnered with an alliance known as Trans, is natural to hang the flag against the Trump administration, pushing back to transgender and LGBTQ ideology.
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“El Capiton’s heart growing this flag is a celebration of our community that stands in solidarity with each other and all targeted groups,” Josalin said. Statement to NBC Those days. “Trans existence is not for debate. We are social workers, public servants, parents and neighbors. To be trans is a natural, beautiful part of human and biological diversity. We can only progress when we embrace diversity, we cannot erase it.”
Short after the performance, the park’s acting superintendent, Ray McPaden signed Guidance restriction “Sign any banner, flag, or fifteen square feet … or a combination of signs of more than fifteen square feet from being displayed without a permit”.
A close-up look of the inverted flag in protest at Yosemite National Park in California. (Brittany Colt, www.brittanycolt.com, @Brittanycolt)
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In February, the park staff upside down the US flag on the edge of L Capiton to oppose the sorting by President Donald Trump.
According to a Yosemite worker, it was done in response to the Trump administration, in which the National Park Service Employees, who were on 1,000 new work, were fired.
