Oklahoma governor predicts GOP victory in 2024 if focus is on transgender, LGBT issues
Brady Knox
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Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) claimed that the GOP would achieve victory in the 2024 elections if it focused on transgender and LGBT issues.
Speaking with Fox News Digital, Stitt outlined his belief that Americans at large believe that the Democrats have “gone too far” on LGBT issues, arguing they would support Republicans if the issue were the focus in 2024. He made the predictions amid his recent move to cut funding for Oklahoma’s Public Broadcasting System, the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority (OETA), over questionable content such as a drag queen presenting a book to children.
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“I believe it’s going to be more and more important in general in 2024 because the Left has gone too far. They have gone way too radical,” Stitt said regarding transgender and LGBT issues.
“We have an obligation to protect our children and protect sports and protect free competition and fair competition in Oklahoma. And so to us, it’s pretty common sense. And I hope it’s an issue in the general election in 2024, because I think we win on that with Americans.
“We believe in traditional family values. We’re not going to let biological males participate in girls’ sports,” he said.
He added that Republicans appear to be generally united on LGBT issues, a unity which would also help them in a match-up with Democrats, where opinions vary.
He presented his own struggle with PBS as a prime example of the Left overstepping on LGBT issues, particularly regarding the “over-sexualization” of children.
“OETA, to us, is an outdated system. 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? And then when you go through all of the programming that’s happening and the indoctrination and over-sexualization of our children, it’s just really problematic, and it doesn’t line up with Oklahoma values,” Stitt told Fox News Digital.
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“When you think about educating kids, let’s teach them to read and their numbers and counting and letters and those kind of things,” Stitt said. “I mean, some of the programming that we’re seeing … it just doesn’t need to be on public television.”
Stitt’s office presented several examples of content it found objectionable to the outlet, including a segment on “Let’s Learn,” in which a drag queen named Lil Miss Hot Mess reads a children’s book titled “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.”