Coffee, Culture, and the Capitol
Sep 28, 2026 · 29 min · 9 segments
Fifth Grader Forced to Teach Kindergartner Gender Ideology Wins. Now Sunnyvale Defies the Supreme Court. On this episode of Coffee Culture and the Capitol, a fifth grader in Encinitas was forced to…
Greg BurtHost
Sophia LoreyHost
Right, you would think this might be just an isolated case, but really the state government has been passing laws for the last decade pushing gender ideology into the schoolroom.

And this is just one more example of... how they are doing this, and they're doing it behind parents' backs.

And this is a story where two parents had a fifth grader who was in this program called the Buddy Program, and they would pair this fifth grader up, this young man, with a kindergartner.

and they would be buddies and they'd read each other books and they he probably you know act as an older brother as a mentor and sadly what happened was the a teacher introduced to the fifth graders a book called my shadow is pink it's a gender ideology book and then after he read it he was to read it to his kindergartner, and he was very uncomfortable.

And so, just to kind of give you an idea, and then there was a lawsuit filed, and we'll tell you what happened afterwards, but to really give you a glimpse, why don't you hear it from his father and the young kid.

They actually put out a video a week after it happened, kind of explaining what was happening in their school and the reaction.

Right, you would think this might be just an isolated case, but really the state government has been passing laws for the last decade pushing gender ideology into the schoolroom.

And this is just one more example of... how they are doing this, and they're doing it behind parents' backs.

And this is a story where two parents had a fifth grader who was in this program called the Buddy Program, and they would pair this fifth grader up, this young man, with a kindergartner.

and they would be buddies and they'd read each other books and they he probably you know act as an older brother as a mentor and sadly what happened was the a teacher introduced to the fifth graders a book called my shadow is pink it's a gender ideology book and then after he read it he was to read it to his kindergartner, and he was very uncomfortable.

And so, just to kind of give you an idea, and then there was a lawsuit filed, and we'll tell you what happened afterwards, but to really give you a glimpse, why don't you hear it from his father and the young kid.

They actually put out a video a week after it happened, kind of explaining what was happening in their school and the reaction.
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