Fox and Friends hosts claim schools are using climate change and gender identity to control kids' thoughts and actions Written by Media Matters Staff Published 09/13/23 10:13 AM EDT Video file Citation From the September 13, 2023, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends PETE HEGSETH (FOX HOST): It's cultural Marxism. It's separating parents from kids. And if you can get a kid to believe something like there's — there aren't two genders, and then you can get a parent to say the same thing, even though they don't really believe that — you control them. You control them! You control their thoughts, you control their actions. That's what they want. BRIAN KILMEADE (FOX HOST): Same thing with climate change.