National Park Employee Fired After Transgender Flag Stunt at Yosemite
The biologist Shannon “SJ” Joslin uses “they/them” pronouns, in defiance of logic, reason, and science.
My family has gone to Yosemite National Park many times to enjoy its natural wonders.
Fortunately, we were not there this May when some of the park’s employees decided to despoil the beauty of the region with a gender justice display.
A group of LGBTQ climbers and advocates hung a large transgender pride flag in the middle of Yosemite’s famous El Capitan rock formation on Tuesday.
Trans Is Natural, which describes itself as a coalition of transgender, queer and ally climbers, said in a statement that its members unfurled the flag “in an act of solidarity and resistance.”
They said the trans pride flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest flag ever displayed on El Capitan. The climbers hung the flag 1,500 feet up El Capitan, on the granite monolith’s “Heart Ledges,” between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. PT and displayed it until around noon, when park officials directed that it be removed, though the climbers said they were not told that they had broken any park rules, according Jess Fiaschetti, the group’s media contact.
A spokesperson for Yosemite National Park said in an emailed statement Wednesday that park officials are “aware of the unauthorized display” and “the flag was removed a soon as possible.”
One of the employees involved in the stunt has now been fired. I will simply note that NBC News decided to coddle the employee’s delusions by using the “they/them” pronouns.
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.”
If a biologist can’t accept the reality of his or her genetics, then exactly how is the public supposed to trust the research from that scientist?
All the park employees involved will likely be enjoying the “FO” phase of the FAFO cycle…especially as the Trump Justice Department is involved.
UPDATE: SJ Joslin, a "non-binary" scientist and one of the individuals reportedly responsible for hanging a giant transgender flag in Yosemite National Park, has been FIRED from her position at the park.
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Non binary is non employed.
But, in this case, it’s more like “mouthy, evangelical*, vandal non-binary is non-employed.”
(* What they’re spreading isn’t good news, but I am not yet awake enough to come up with the better word.)
Thanks for clarifying that!
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Non binary is non employed and non happy
So non sad!
“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.”
“Also, nobody in Silicon Valley wanted to hire me.”
Trans Is Natural
Ummmm, “trans” is the antithesis of natural. It’s the very essence of denying nature and supposedly overcoming it by sheer force of human will and ingenuity (surgery, drugs). It also defies that term (“natural”) by trying to upset the normal order.
Trans is anything but natural.
But it’s a PhD…..it is smarter than you, donch’a know!
More educated, not smarter.
Two different things.
Schooled and credentialed, not educated.
Touche’
“Trans is anything but natural”
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Are you sure about that?
Consider:
If one believes that we are natural to this planet, i.e., evolution, physical processes, etc., then it follows that everything that we do, is, by definition, also natural.
How can it possibly be anything else in relation to those terms…
It’s like saying that building skyscrapers, roads, and nuclear power plants is “unnatural” while admiring the beaver, which is equally destructive in its own right. What people do and what beavers do are both “natural” and equally valid for their species. Neither can help itself, although people try, at times, to go against their own nature – but this is also natural because it’s within our abilities as humans. Pretending to be something we’re not is among our abilities, so, in a way, it’s completely natural to think of oneself as “trans.” It’s just that having the ability to do this for oneself doesn’t mean that others need to accept it.
The word “nature” is horribly difficult to define. Here is an excellent lecture about this:
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/items/805f8ba3-ad9c-4689-b70e-297f0277cff3
I hope it studied Latin in undergrad….then it can ask, “Would you like fries with that?” in Latin while manning the Drive-Thru!
Don’t you mean “while personing the Drive-Thru”?
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I remember ‘let your freak flag fly’ but this is ridiculous.
As was the lipstick mustached man playing at being a woman
Non happening man!!
That lovely individual is “Pattie Gonia”.
Pattie Gonia is the drag persona of Wyn Wiley, a Nebraska-born photographer, creative director, and prominent environmental and “LGBTQIA+” activist. Pattie Gonia uses she/they pronouns when in drag. Wiley, who uses he/they pronouns outside of drag, began the Pattie Gonia project in 2018 with a viral video that showcased hiking in six-inch heels—an act that quickly gained a massive online following.
Talk about ideological capture of our institutions: Pattie Gonia was recognized as a Next Gen Leader by Time Magazine, a National Geographic Changemaker, and named Person of the Year by Outside Magazine.
Pattie Gonia s had notable interactions and collaborations with the Biden administration, especially around climate and LGBTQ+ advocacy…a real “twofer”. She has participated in meetings with White House officials and members of Congress. https://www.eenews.net/articles/a-drag-queens-quest-to-stir-the-pot-in-the-climate-movement/
I already consider Trump 2.0 a massive win, if people like this no longer have normalized access to the White House.
One last note” “Pattie Gonia” likely encouraged this stunt as a way to protest Trump. Yet likely HIS paycheck hasn’t stopped because of what happened. Perhaps young social justice advocates should reflect upon the sequence of events, and weigh the importance of one viral video to a steady paycheck and a successful career.
Leslie
You almost know too much about “it”
Lol
Do his fans call themselves Goniads?
Probably.
“Yet likely HIS paycheck hasn’t stopped because of what happened. Perhaps young social justice advocates should reflect upon the sequence of events”
Yeah.
“Let’s you and him fight” is a favorite proggie tactic.
Many proggie suckers still refuse to learn that lesson, even after having been wheeled off to Bankruptcy Hospital…
(For some reason, my own comment is still “unapproved” and I can’t respond to it…)
Oops… I didn’t notice that the MoJones article itself was laced with the same liberal hopium: “Brady is still fighting for us pro bono and we see no evidence that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence will not help us raise funds if and when that time comes.”
Of course, they didn’t.
“The Judge insinuated in his order that Brady should pay since he said they were the instigators. If this was a ploy designed to give the appearance that Brady was responsible and turn us against each other, it did not work.”
“But the Phillipses say they didn’t fully understand the risks when two years after their daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was killed in the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, they sued four businesses patronized by the gunman.”
And it’s “still so unfair” that you can’t sue people for a crime who didn’t commit it!
Some people are so stupid you wonder how they remember to breathe.
“Visne cum isto poma terrestria fricta?”
I’m in tears after googling.
Cosplay your delusions on your own dime, your own time and on your own property. Don’t try and pull the rest of us into your delusional fantasies. We don’t have to participate and if we choose to do so ….you have no grounds to complain when we go off your expected script and use our own choices of language and actions in expressing ourselves.
and in defiance of grammar
So it thinks itself immune from the consequences of its actions? Well, what’s that phrase? Oh yes, FAFO. You Fecked Around and are now Finding Out the consequences of your actions. So no sympathy. If your job had really been that important to itself you wouldn’t have abetted pulling such a boneheaded stunt. You and the rest are justifiably fired as you cannot be trusted to follow the rules/regulations of the park and the NPS.
Feck! Drink!
Feck! Eat, Drink and be Merry for tomorrow we die!
Uh . . . not really, just sounds good. 🤭
Here PhD is in something called “bioinformatics”? A quick search shows that this term is neither biology nor CSci, but rather learning how to manipulate large quantities of disparate data to make it show whatever you want. There’s that old chestnut of “BS, MS, PhD…BullSh!t, MoreSh!t, Piled Higher and Deeper”. She certainly piles it higher and deeper.
Well, ma’am, you now have your opportunity knocking to “…make a lot more money in Silicon Valley”, but nobody with two spare brain cells to click together would hire a raging lunatic like yourself. I more hope that you get the mental health care you obviously need.
Doing exactly what a park ranger is supposed to stop anyone from doing on fed property.
See ya.
True dat.
I’m wondering when American “trans” employees need to start worrying about Indian H1B “trans” workers replacing them.
“My entire LGBTQMOUse+ group had to train our Indian replacements on making protest signs and where to find the best glitter makeup.!”
If a scientist is non-binary that means there are binary and non-binary scientists. Which by scientific definition is binary.
I’m confused.
There are 10 groups of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
You’d think that trans people living & working in a remote forested location where they could be themselves unburdened by the hostile glare of society would be a good thing. All they had to do was be themselves in solitude and not bother anyone. They live in peace, we live in peace. But noooooooo…
It’s all fun and games until Snow Whytte shows up.
well kentaji just found her soulmate
I’m old enough to remember when people used to carry out acts of defiance, knowing there would be consequences, and not play the victim afterwards.
Exactly. They were willing to accept the consequences and used that to garner more attention for their cause. They didn’t whine about it, they stood up and took it.
That was at a point in time long ago when the consequences actually occurred.
Thoreau dedicated an entire book to how to do it right.
Rational Americans are no longer putting up with the passive accommodation of vile tranny misogynists’ malignant narcissism, obnoxious misogyny, mentally ill delusions and totalitarian linguistic and other impositions placed upon everyone around them.
Bumper sticker on personal car wasn’t enough for them?
Need approval to use public property that way. If they didn’t know better, then they are too stupid for that job.