<p style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oklahoma-bans-trans-procedures-on-kids-becoming-16th-state-to-enact-such-protections">Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt</a> said he is pulling the plug on the state’s sole PBS television station because of “indoctrination and over-sexualization” of children through content that promotes drag queens and the LGBTQ agenda.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">In an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/oklahoma-governor-stitt-defends-decision-axe-pbs-funding-over-really-problematic-lgbtq-content" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive interview with Fox News Digital</a>, the Republican leader said taxpayers should not have to fund OETA-TV, given its far-Left bias. He recently moved to block funding for the station through 2026. Unless the state legislature overrides his veto, the network will cease operations this year.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“OETA, to us, is an outdated system,” Stitt said. “You know, the big, big question is why are we spending taxpayer dollars to prop up or compete with the private sector and run television stations?”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“And then when you go through all of the programming that&#8217;s happening and the indoctrination and over-sexualization of our children, it&#8217;s just really problematic, and it doesn&#8217;t line up with Oklahoma values,” he added.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Stitt’s office pointed to a segment of “Let&#8217;s Learn,” which featured a drag queen known as Lil Miss Hot Mess reading a purported children&#8217;s book called “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Another show aired by the station, “Clifford The Big Red Dog,” features lesbian parents, a show called “Work It Out Wombat” features a gay character, and “Odd Squad” depicted a same-sex wedding. Stitt also noted OETA recently aired a segment on its “Newshour” program that voiced support for chemical treatments including puberty blockers for children who identify as transgender.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">OETA’s “Pride Month” programming included a special about a town in which Christians “step into the spotlight to dismantle stereotypes” about drag queens.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Democrats in the red state, including State Rep. Monroe Nichols, accused Stitt of mounting an attack on “public education and underrepresented Oklahoma communities.” OETA board member Ken Busby told <a href="https://ktul.com/news/local/gov-stitt-axes-pbs-funding-over-shows-with-lgbt-content">KTUL</a> taxpayers must support arts and culture.</p>
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<p style="font-weight: 400;">But Stitt told Fox News Digital the station has strayed from its educational mission and that if its programming was worthwhile, the private sector would make it available.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“When you think about educating kids, let&#8217;s teach them to read and their numbers and counting and letters and those kind of things,” he said. “I mean, some of the programming that we&#8217;re seeing… it just doesn&#8217;t need to be on public television.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Stitt recently signed into law a ban on all chemical and surgical transgender procedures on children, joining 15 states which have enacted similar laws.</p>

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