Article in The Intercept by Nikita Mazurov, 5/29/25

Headline:  “PBS Station Wipes Drag and Trans Content After DOGE Outcry”

Subhead:  “PBS producer WNET quietly erased episodes containing a drag queen and a trans character from its platforms.”

“The New York-area PBS station WNET has scrubbed its archives of at least three educational TV episodes that discuss transgender identity and drag expression, The Intercept has learned, as Congress and the Trump administration target public broadcasters with attempts to strip their funding.

“The station’s educational program ‘Let’s Learn’ became an object of ire for the House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency this spring over the 2021 episode. . .The subcommittee’s chair, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., opened the ‘Anti-American Airwaves’ hearing in March by claiming that ‘PBS News is not just left-leaning, but it actively uses taxpayer funds to push some of the most radical, left positions like featuring a drag queen on the show . . .”

Read the full article at:

https://theintercept.com/2025/05/29/drag-trans-pbs-wnet-censorship-doge/