The Pride Liberation Project emerged in 2021 and describes itself as “the only student-led organization advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights in Virginia. We’re entirely led by high school students, and work to create empowering schools and communities for all LGBTQIA+ students in Fairfax County and Virginia.” But is that true?
PLP touts its activities and successes on its website, an impressive list for any advocacy group. It is all the more impressive from an “entirely led by high school students” organization. PLP reports it has led student walkouts to protest the Department of Education Policies on Transgender Students and to protest the appointment of the Superintendent of FCPS. Visitors to their website are to believe that they are so sophisticated that they know details about all the candidates being considered for the job of Superintendent. They also protested the removal of books with graphic illustrations of LGBTQI+ individuals engaging in sexual acts. Their reasoning?
Unfortunately, current portrayals of LGBTQIA+ youth are severely limited. Existing LGBTQIA+ young adult novels often do not depict gender fluid, non-binary, and asexual charecters (sic). Moreover, depictions that do exist are often stereotypical, contributing to a lack of knowledge around gender expansive people in society.
Letter from Pride Liberation Project
It does not explain why or how graphic illustrations of actual sex acts provide the positive image they are seeking for their identified community.
The PLP website discloses some of its partnerships with organizations such as Safe Space NOVA, NAACP Fairfax and Fairfax Alliance for Black School Educators (FABSE). PLP advises FCPS students of their rights and resources for avoiding family interference. Who is behind this effort to separate teens from their parents?
Following an October Walk Out, an on-line meeting was held among organizers. Investigative Veteran Reporter Asra Nomani viewed a recording of that after-action meeting.
But a post-protest (walkout) video debrief, shared with the Fairfax Times, reveals the effort was led by a young adult Democratic Party activist, Aaryan Rawal, guiding the underaged students, with “messaging research,” talking points and resources that help children leave their families. The video debrief includes Rawal speaking to at least six students under the age of 18.
Asra Nomani / Special to the Fairfax County Times
Oct 7, 2022 Updated Oct 7, 2022
Traffickers Setting Children Up for Exploitation?
Assistance from Adult Allies in the School and Mental Health System and Funding from ActBlue
This Fairfax Times article by Asra Nomani shares troubling details about the activities and connections of this student-front group, including its adult leadership, counseling allies within the schools and funding sources to help “children who allegedly ‘need to leave their home,’ the guide offers ‘Housing Support,’ noting: ‘“In the event of you needing to leave your home, we can provide you with emergency housing from a supportive, Queer friendly adult.'”
“Offering students an opportunity to get cash, Pride Liberation Project offers an alternative through the Democratic Party fundraising platform. “We can also set up a dedicated ActBlue fundraising page for you and get allies to donate,” the guide recommends, noting: “In the past, this has led to thousands of dollars in donations.”
Pride Liberation Project “#resources-for-outed-students!”
ActBlue Charities Inc. is an American nonprofit technology organization established in June 2004 that enables left-leaning nonprofits, Democratic candidates, and progressive groups to raise money from individual donors on the Internet by providing them with online fundraising software. Wikipedia
Pushback from parents who recognize the tactics of PLP as standard trafficking techniques, have caused the PLP to be much more circumspect on its website, claiming the lack of transparency is because members fear their own parents. The PLP website is careful not to mention FCPS Pride (An Allied and LGBT community for FCPS employees) on its website, but a report shows a clear link of retired FCPS Teacher Robert Rigby, founder of FCPS Pride and regular fixture at FCPS School Board Meetings and LGBTQ+ and Teacher Union protests, to the alleged student-run organization.
Bullying Acceptable if it is for a Good Cause?
Luke Rosiak of the Daily Wire exposes the bullying and manipulation tactics of the PLP revealed in an after-action video from a student walkout. PLP leader Aaryan Rawal advised students to “publicly invoke suicide, it would be more potent than the law. “It’s a lot easier for someone to hide behind a legal argument if they don’t know there’s a queer student whose about to testify who’s about to say that these guidelines would have literally killed their community and would have literally led to incredible rates of self-harm,” he said.
Rosiak reported that on the internal messaging board, “asked a question about the topic (funding), Rawal wrote, “f–k let me dm rigby,” referring to Robert Rigby, a Fairfax County teacher who frequently pushes gay activism at school board meetings. The Pride Liberation Project did not respond to an inquiry about Rigby’s role.”
Other reporting about this same “walkout” (organizers claimed involved “participation from nearly 100 schools, mainly concentrated in Fairfax County and other counties in northern Virginia: Loudoun, Prince William, and Arlington,) lamented the apathy of students for the cause:
‘People Weren’t Actually Interested in the Cause‘
“Yesterday, at the school walkout we had, we had about 200 students participating. And most of the students were just there to skip class,” said one student organizer at the debrief. “And when I was handing out flyers yesterday, most of the flyers I handed out got handed right back to me because people weren’t actually interested in the cause for the walkout. They just wanted to skip class.” Another responded, “I definitely had a lot of those people at my school as well.”
Organizers did not despair, (organizing principle 101):
“Honestly, they don’t realize it, but they are definitely helping our cause. They are bolstering our numbers; we can count them as our people who walked out for the Pride Liberation Project for these walkouts across the state.”
A third coordinator chimed in, “When helicopters are recording your school, they’re not seeing which one’s caring and which ones don’t. They’re just seeing the numbers.”
“So at the end of the day, if you had 200 students, the news saw 200 students regardless of how they actually felt in that moment, and that made a really big impact collectively,” she added.
‘Most Were Just There to Skip Class’: Untold Story of Walkouts Against Virginia’s New Transgender Student Policies‘
This reporting confirms what most parents know: If teens are given an option to skip class, they will take it. Teens also are not buying wholesale into the constant indoctrination of the LGBTQ+ lobby. But this does not mean it is not a manipulation tactic and that it is not having an impact on individual teens, particularly those with vulnerabilities. The LGBTQ+ lobby is preying on the human tendency to always “approach the Good.” By couching the “narrative” in “social justice” and CRT “oppression” terminology and using manipulative threats of suicide, the PLP is appealing to teens (and unfortunately adults) who have been trained for years to respond through Social/Emotional skills rather than virtue and critical thinking. And it certainly is having an impact on adult policy makers.
Because human beings are hardwired for the good, they even choose evil under the appearance of good. And because that hardwiring also structures the human mind, the person who persists in evil must redefine reality so that down is up, and evil is good.
John M. Grondelski, Changing Words Doesn’t Change Things
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