{"id":1669014,"date":"2022-10-02T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669014"},"modified":"2022-10-02T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T21:53:34","slug":"trans-student-walkout-group-admits-most-just-wanted-to-skip-school-boasts-about-tricking-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-student-walkout-group-admits-most-just-wanted-to-skip-school-boasts-about-tricking-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Student Walkout Group Admits Most Just Wanted To Skip School, Boasts About Tricking Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-student-walkout-group-admits-most-just-wanted-to-skip-school-boasts-about-tricking-media%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669014&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>National media covered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-news\/students-stage-walkouts-virginia-governors-transgender-school-policies-rcna49594\">\u201cwalkouts\u201d<\/a> by students supposedly objecting to transgender policies from Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin\u2019s administration, but internal video of the \u201cstudent\u201d group shows that it is led by an adult former Democrat staffer and that the group knew that a large portion of students had no interest in the cause and simply wanted to skip school.<\/p>\n<p>In video of an internal Zoom call obtained by The Daily Wire, the Pride Liberation Project bragged about having tricked the media.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s leader claimed, \u201cWe had at least 12,000 students walk out. We were the reason Joe Biden was asked a question on this issue.\u201d It boasted of \u201ccoverage from USA Today, the Richmond Times Dispatch, the Virginia Pilot, the Washington Post, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/religion-education-virginia-1607d31176ab4e612d6dbb3fa29bf0d2\">AP News<\/a>, and even some international outlets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But in a debrief after the walkouts, one student asked, \u201cI want to know if anyone else had this problem. Yesterday at the school walkout we had about 200 kids participating. Most of the students were just there to skip class. Most of the fliers I handed out got handed right back to me because most of the people weren\u2019t there for the cause of the walkout, they just wanted to skip class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445106\" class=\"size-large wp-image-445106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aaryan2-576x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aaryan2-576x576-1.png 576w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aaryan2-300x300-1.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/10\/aaryan2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/aaryan2.png 587w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-445106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaryan Rawal \/ Video screenshot<\/p>\n<p>Another activist replied, \u201cI definitely had a lot of those people at my school\u2026 they are bolstering our numbers. We can count them as people who walked out for the Pride Liberation Project\u2026 They\u2019re still helping and they don\u2019t even realize it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A top organizer, <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/rivka-vizcardo-lichter-glenn-youngkin-ive-spoken-to-students-that-are-terrified-va-rolls-back-transgender-accommodationsl-ralph-northam\">Rivka Vizcardo-Lichter<\/a>, replied, \u201cWhen helicopters are recording your school, they\u2019re not seeing which ones care and which ones don\u2019t, they\u2019re just seeing the numbers. So ya\u2019ll slayed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the group\u2019s extensive coordination with the media before the event, a local TV station dispatched a helicopter to capture a small group of students congregating.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HAPPENING NOW: A student walkout at Culpeper Co. HS is one of many expected Tuesday across Virginia in response to the state&#8217;s new controversial policy regarding transgender students. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zvQfpNxJyG\">https:\/\/t.co\/zvQfpNxJyG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PnrGCKAvtE\">pic.twitter.com\/PnrGCKAvtE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX 5 DC (@fox5dc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fox5dc\/status\/1574724443443789831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aaryan Rawal, a college student and former <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.senate.virginia.gov\/Senator\/memberpage.php?id=S100\">legislative staffer<\/a> for a Virginia Democrat who led the group on the call, told participants, \u201cThe goal of mass mobilization is not necessarily make people care about an issue\u2026 the primary goal is to give us credibility in the eyes of lawmakers,\u201d he said. \u201cFor the 30 people who actually know what the policy is, and who actually know how they\u2019re gonna advocate, those people suddenly have a lot of credibility when they talk to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/judge-throws-soros-backed-prosecutor-off-of-case-against-loudoun-rape-victims-father\">Virginia<\/a> lawmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At issue is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/virginia-replaces-democrats-mandatory-transgender-policy-with-parents-rights-manifesto\">model policy<\/a> from the state Department of Education that says that schools should not hide transgender students\u2019 status from their parents, and should only change their name and pronouns with their parents\u2019 written permission.<\/p>\n<p>However, even some of the core group of activists on the call seemed to have little grasp on the policy they were disputing. One asked, \u201cIf this bill does end up getting passed\u2026 would that stop us from being able to have [a Gay Student Association]?\u201d one asked. The Department of Education\u2019s transgender guidelines are not a bill and would not stop that.<\/p>\n<p>In an internal message board, Rawal shared a \u201ctalking points\u201d document that told people what to say, including repeatedly invoking suicide.<\/p>\n<p>If someone asked if walkouts jeopardized learning, he told them to say, \u201cHow can my friends possibly learn about photosynthesis in biology class when they\u2019re worried about whether they\u2019ll be able to come home to a safe place that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our lead organizer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rvlichter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rvlichter<\/a> just appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSNBC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Over 10,000 students in Virginia are making it clear to the DOE that students want to attend schools that aren&#8217;t political pawns, but safe and inclusive places that empower all students to thrive. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6vIJuxL8S\">pic.twitter.com\/L6vIJuxL8S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pride Liberation Project (@PrideLiberation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrideLiberation\/status\/1574854589915967488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The talking points memo said to tell reporters that \u201cI\u2019ve had to talk friends out of suicide at 2 AM in the morning, and I\u2019ve not met a single Queer student who isn\u2019t depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The document continued, \u201cRemember to focus on our narrative\u2026 Using a student\u2019s true pronouns and name has consistently been shown to prevent suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have access to messaging research, or we have access to people who have access to messaging research, and that messaging research really guides what we say in the media,\u201d Rawal said.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that some students agreed with Republicans about transgender issues, Rawal boasted that they were going up against a professional-quality political operation. \u201cIt comes down to this: we know what we\u2019re doing, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. Just remember, we were featured on international news and a lot of national news yesterday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National media covered \u201cwalkouts\u201d by Virginia students supposedly objecting to transgender policies from Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin\u2019s administration, but internal video of the \u201cstudent\u201d group shows that it is led by an adult former Democrat staffer and that the group knew that a large portion of students had no interest in the cause and simply wanted to skip school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}