Pride Liberation Project

Nonprofit coalition of LGBTQIA+ students working to create safe, inclusive, and equitable schools. Entirely student-led.

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

Hi 👋 We're the Pride Liberation Project, the student-led group that led walkouts to challenge Youngkin's hate. We've also:

✍️ Lobbied school boards & the General Assembly
📣 Mobilized 10,000s of students
📗 Fought book bans

Help us continue our work:
https://t.co/jOAJSwAopy

[ACLU of Virginia @ACLUVA]

⌛️PARENTS & STUDENTS⌛️

We have ONE DAY until our info session on Trans Resilience in the Classroom: VDOE Model Policies.

Join us tomorrow alongside @PrideLiberation, @HeSheZeandWe, @EqualityVA, and Side by Side in the fight for a safe, welcoming school environment for ALL. 🏳️‍⚧️

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

Let's be clear: we're not going to accept Youngkin's Don't Be Trans guidelines. Students will be taking actions in the next coming weeks to pressure school boards to reject these guidelines.

Read our full statement here: https://t.co/el6EeQu0xx

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

🧵Yesterday, Youngkin's DOE finalized the largest reversal of Queer student rights in VA history.

Don't Be Trans:
❌ Condones bullying by allowing malicious deadnaming and misgendering
❌ Forcibly outs Queer students
❌ Bans transgender-inclusive facilities

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

this is so niche i fear no one will get it

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

has anyone seen this couch? we spilled coffee on it and left it to dry on the sidewalk and now it’s gone

[Be Vociferous @v_theclash]

If you can't treat students with respect and kindness, then you don't belong in the room.
If you refuse to listen to students, then your opinions about our public schools are ignorant and should be ignored.
#RespectStudents
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[Jennifer McClellan @JennMcClellanVA]

Thank you VA-04! I’m ready to get to work for you.

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

Virginia students see through Glenn Youngkin’s platitudes.

His education policy plays politics with students lives, and GenZ is going to hold him accountable.

[Coalition for Virginia’s Future @CoVAFuture]

Glenn Youngkin just fumbled around on CNN trying to justify his harmful education policy that targets students.

@PrideLiberation was outside protesting his attacks and @genratifyva was inside asking him the hard questions.

VA youth showed up tonight. We won't ever back down.

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

youngkin tonight at all the questions

[Equality Virginia @EqualityVA]

Gov. Youngkin is only interested in speaking in platitudes, not addressing the real concerns of parents and students in Virginia.

[Abby Garber @abbykgarber]

Glenn Youngkin claims to believe in “small government,” but supports government censorship of libraries and extremist abortion bans.

Callie Walsh’s student perspective on this issue should be amplified, but Glenn Youngkin doesn’t care about Virginia students. #CNNTownHall

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

Even if a parent supports their student's gender identity, that wouldn't be enough for a school to recognize a student's correct pronouns and names.

Youngkin's guidance is a license to discriminate in our schools, no matter how many platitudes he talks in

[Equality Virginia @EqualityVA]

A trans student named Niko asked Gov. Youngkin about his policies on transgender students.

Niko’s dad supports him. And yet, that parental support would be overruled by the guidance that Youngkin’s administration released without any input from parents or educators.

[Acyn @Acyn]

“Your transgender policies require students play on the sports teams and use the restrooms that correspond with their sex assigned at birth. . Look at me, I am a transgender man. Do you think the girls in my high school would feel comfortable sharing a restroom with me? “

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

28 percent of Queer youth experience housing insecurity at some point in their lives.

We didn't get to ask a question at the #CNNTownhall. But if we did, we'd ask why Glenn Youngkin wants to out every Queer student, regardless of how safe it is for them?

[Pride Liberation Project @PrideLiberation]

As Youngkin talks to a national audience about his education record, let's remember how he treats Queer students. He wants to:

❌ Forcibly out students
❌ Implement a trans bathroom ban
❌ Misgender and deadname students

Students are fighting back. Retweet if you're with us.

[Equality Virginia @EqualityVA]

Let’s have a real conversation about what Virginia’s K-12 schools are like for trans and nonbinary students under Governor Youngkin’s leadership. Because we need to #LetKidsLearn.

[Democrats at Mason @GMUdems]

We’re with @PrideLiberation outside CNN’s DC Studios for Glenn Youngkin’s town hall

[Blue Virginia @bluevirginia]

"Today, CNN is hosting a town hall with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on education policy. In response, dozens of Virginia students will be rallying outside CNN demanding Governor Youngkin stop attacking students for political gain." https://t.co/IigidZKnYJ h/t @PrideLiberation

[TCI @TCIFiscal]

Ahead of tonight's #CNNTownHall w/ Gov Youngkin, you should know the facts

That's why we're joining @EqualityVA, @ACLUVA, @LegalAidJustice & @PrideLiberation to lift up the real state of Virginia education, particularly the need to #LetKidsLearn in well-funded public schools 🧵

[Daniel Hamburg @DHamburgReports]

The @PrideLiberation Project held a protest outside of @CNN headquarters in D.C. ahead of @GovernorVA Glenn Youngkin’s town hall on education. High schoolers here tell me they don’t feel heard and are being hurt by Youngkin’s transgender policies.