WASHINGTON — On the same day that the Justice Department and the state of North Carolina filed dueling lawsuits over whether transgender Americans have the right to access the restroom facilities of their choice, administration officials took a step toward designating the first national monument commemorating the gay-rights movement.

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis joined New York officials Monday night in Greenwich Village to get public feedback on whether to make Stonewall, the site of a 1969 public uprising after a police raid on a bar frequented by gay men, into a national park. Roughly 250 people attended, according to participants, all of whom endorsed the idea.

‘‘Do I hear unanimous support?’’ Jarvis asked at the end of the meeting, according to several attendees. The crowd called out in response, ‘‘Yes!’’

Representative Jerrold Nadler and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, convened the meeting. Nadler said in a statement that he was confident President Obama would declare Christopher Park a monument under the 1906 Antiquities Act. Nadler and Gillibrand have sponsored legislation to make the area into a park, but that bill is unlikely to become law this year.

The proposal to incorporate Christopher Park and some of the surrounding streets, where rioting took place over the course of six days, into the National Park Service has received significant support from members of the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community as well as from local and state officials in New York.

The move has sparked some criticism from religious conservatives.

Washington Post