Student standing up for all

More than 1,000 students walked out of Virginia middle and high schools Tuesday, . Advocacy group Pride Liberation Project, which organized the statewide effort organizers said, leaving class in protest of the state's reversal of transgender protections that put decisions on students' identities and preferred names at school exclusively in the hands of their parents.

Rivka Vizcardo-Lichter student organizer Pride Liberation Project - a fifteen year old activist sneaks out of study hall to call in The Morning Beat with the latest on the student walkouts protesting the anti LGBTQ+ legislation.

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