A Yosemite National Park ranger was fired last week after they hung a transgender pride flag from famed climbing wall El Capitan this spring.

SJ Joslin, formerly a wildlife biologist at Yosemite, and several others lugged a 58 lb flag up the imposing wall and flew the flag on a heart-shaped feature of the rock for two hours in a celebration of their transgender identity, they said in an interview with KQED.

Joslin was not on duty at the time and was not acting on behalf of the National Parks Service, they said.

“I just thought: What better of a place to hang a huge flag whose entire point is acceptance and celebration of a group of people — and really everyone?” they said.

But last week, Joslin received their termination letter, which said they “failed to demonstrate acceptable condu

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