# @pinknews on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNiB6ZSvwg-
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33663368-pinknews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-19T09:34:01.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** PinkNews (@pinknews) — https://gondola.cc/pinknews

## Caption

A transgender National Park ranger has claimed they were fired for flying a Trans Pride flag on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

Shannon Joslin, a biologist, posted to Instagram on Monday 19 August to share the news: 'Last week I was fired from my dream job as a permanent park ranger with the NPS for practicing my First Amendment right.'

'In May I hung a trans flag on El Capitan that celebrated my acceptance of my identity. I hung the flag in my free time, off-duty, as a private citizen. It flew for a total of two hours in the morning and then I took it down.'

'El Capitan has had flags hung on it for decades and no one has EVER been punished for it. Only me. I was fired by the temporary Deputy Superintendent for “failing to demonstrate acceptable conduct” in my capacity as a Wildlife Biologist for the park. No part of hanging the flag was done on work time.'

'NOTHING about it had anything to do with my work. In an instant a person who is only working in Yosemite for a few months before they move on made a unilateral decision that would affect my entire career, work group (and the groups I work overtime for) and my community in Yosemite.'

#TransPride #Yosemite #ElCapitan #LGBTQNews #TransNews

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## Tags

yosemite, lgbtqnews, elcapitan, transpride, transnews

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