Coffee, Culture, and the Capitol
Oct 2, 2026 · 27 min · 10 segments
On episode 107 of Coffee Culture and the Capitol, Greg explains why the court's ruling on compelled speech at the University of California matters for your child's K through 12 school, where many…
Greg BurtHost
Sophia LoreyHost
I've written stories about this over the last year and it's throughout our culture now.

The state is trying to say that it is sexual harassment if you don't use someone's preferred pronouns.

This happened like five or six years ago when they changed the definition of what sexual harassment was.

And they said, well, it also includes harassing someone based on their gender identity.

And people thought, okay, yeah, you shouldn't harass someone that identifies as a different gender.

It's gender identity that you discover personally, and that you just declare yourself whatever gender you want to be.

And everyone around you, if they don't agree, if they don't use your new name and pronoun, if they complain about you invading the opposite sex's private spaces like locker rooms and teams, single sex teams, then you are now a harasser.

And it came up in the training, they were making everybody take before they could even sign up for classes.

And if you didn't sign up, if you didn't answer the questions 100% like they wanted, then you couldn't sign up for the classes.

And in the midst of these test questions is questions like, hey, It's harassment to not use someone's preferred pronoun.

Because when the government says you must say something, what they're doing is they're compelling speech.

The First Amendment we have in our U.S. Constitution, everybody learns that in school, it not only protects your right to say something, it also protects your right from being forced to say something you disagree with.

I've written stories about this over the last year and it's throughout our culture now.

The state is trying to say that it is sexual harassment if you don't use someone's preferred pronouns.

This happened like five or six years ago when they changed the definition of what sexual harassment was.

And they said, well, it also includes harassing someone based on their gender identity.

And people thought, okay, yeah, you shouldn't harass someone that identifies as a different gender.

It's gender identity that you discover personally, and that you just declare yourself whatever gender you want to be.

And everyone around you, if they don't agree, if they don't use your new name and pronoun, if they complain about you invading the opposite sex's private spaces like locker rooms and teams, single sex teams, then you are now a harasser.

And it came up in the training, they were making everybody take before they could even sign up for classes.

And if you didn't sign up, if you didn't answer the questions 100% like they wanted, then you couldn't sign up for the classes.

And in the midst of these test questions is questions like, hey, It's harassment to not use someone's preferred pronoun.

Because when the government says you must say something, what they're doing is they're compelling speech.

The First Amendment we have in our U.S. Constitution, everybody learns that in school, it not only protects your right to say something, it also protects your right from being forced to say something you disagree with.
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