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Last May, a drag queen staged a protest against the Trump Administration by flying a trans flag loud and proud at Yosemite National Park. The problem? It was against park rules. So while he may have believed this stunt would send a message to the president that trans people “exist,” it ended up costing one of his own “allies” her job.

And rather than take this as a lesson, they’ve taken the termination notice as an opportunity to double down—because apparently, the crucial thing at hand is making sure you know he exists.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle:

The enormous 55-by-35-foot banner, first unfurled on El Capitan in May as part of a climber-led demonstration, was repurposed into a flowing dress worn by drag environmentalist Pattie Gonia on the red carpet at Out100 — an annual tribute to influential LGBTQ+ figures — at Nya Studios West in Hollywood on Friday, Nov. 21.

Wow. Slay, queen. Just slaying it everywhere you go, aren’t we?

Beside her stood SJ Joslin, the transgender Yosemite park ranger and wildlife biologist who was fired over the summer for helping mount the flag in the national park from the rock’s Heart Ledges.

Joslin, an Out100 honoree this year, has become a symbol of the fallout from the El Capitan action — a flashpoint in a broader national clash over transgender rights and public-lands policy.

Why do these people care so much about whether the president validates their indescribable feelings? Activists insist that whatever they “feel” not only defines their identity but somehow defines womanhood itself. But why is it the job of the leader of the free world to weigh in on anyone’s internal emotions? Their existence isn’t in dispute — they quite literally exist, which is how we’re all having this conversation. And while plenty of people may disagree with their life choices, that doesn’t mean anyone is pretending they’re imaginary. In reality, we can only wish this whole story were satire. But it’s 2025, where vague, self-declared feelings are treated as more authoritative than objective reality.

“Raising this flag in the heart of El Capitan is a celebration of our community, standing in solidarity with each other and all targeted groups,” they told the Los Angeles Times after their dismissal. “Being trans is a natural, beautiful part of human and biological diversity.”

If being trans is a “natural, beautiful part of human and biological diversity,” then why does the explanation always seem to involve rejecting the biological facts surrounding their existence? If it were truly natural, why does it contradict what every cell in the body reflects? And if biology is supposedly so diverse, why does the entire conversation still revolve around moving from one of the two established sexes to the other? That part is still unclear as of writing this — but you can be sure those feelings are officially deemed “valid.”

As of writing this, trans people do, in fact, still exist. I received that memo long before this protest, and someone should really pass it along to these activists, too. Because in this exaggerated crusade to fight the fight, they’re battling imaginary forces no one is actually deploying against them. And, unfortunately for this drag queen, that disconnect is starting to look like a personal problem more than a political one.

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