YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After being fired over the display of a Trans Pride flag on a historic Yosemite monument, a former park ranger explains how this issue is much more than a flag being hung.

On May 20, SJ Joslin joined others, while off duty, in a celebration of transgender identities by raising a Transgender Pride flag from El Capitan. The mountain served as a symbol, as a natural feature in the center of the west face of the mountain appears as a heart.

"I did not expect to lose my job over this," Joslin said. "Being trans, being non-binary is not an ideology— it's an identity. I'm not trying to impose any ideology on anyone, I'm just trying to celebrate who I am."

Joslin has worked with the Yosemite National Park as a Wildlife Biologist since March 2021, having been instr

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