Ryan Walters, Oklahomas Republican State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is under investigation after he was allegedly caught streaming pornography on his office TV during a meeting of the state Board of Education.Oklahomas Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton (R) confirmed in a July 25 statement that the states Office of Management and Enterprise Services is leading an inquiry into the incident, according to The Oklahoman. Related MAGA education head to introduce ideological purity test to weed out woke teachers Among other things, the assessment will determine whether teachers grasp the fundamental biological differences between boys and girls. The outlet, along with Oklahoma media nonprofit NonDoc, reported Friday that Oklahoma State Board of Education members Becky Carson and Ryan Deatherage said they had seen images of naked women on a television in Walters office during the closed-door executive session portion of a July 24 meeting. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Deatherage said that Walters had his back to the TV screen, and both he and Carson told NonDoc that they were the only people in the room with a view of it. Deatherage said he first noticed the video during a presentation and was confounded about what to do. Carson told The Oklahoman she only noticed the images onscreen after the presenters left the room, and immediately spoke up to alert Walters, demanding he turn the video off.Both Carson and Deatherage described the video as appearing retro, with Carson telling The Oklahoman it looked like it was made in the 60s. They said it did not show sexual intercourse, but both recalled seeing multiple fully nude women onscreen, and Deatherage told NonDoc the scene involved a chiropractic table.I said, What is on your TV? What am I watching? He was like, What? What are you talking about? He stood up and saw it. He made acknowledgment that he saw it, Carson told NonDoc. And I said, Turn it off. Now. And he was like, What is this? What is this? So he acknowledged it was inappropriate just by those words. And he was like, I cant get it to turn off. I cant figure out how to turn it off. And I said, Get it turned off. So he finally got it turned off, and that was the end of it. Carson and Deatherage said that Walters, who drew bi-partisan criticism in early 2024 for appointing anti-LGBTQ+ hate influencer Chaya Raichik to Oklahomas library advisory committee to remove supposedly pornographic books, neither apologized for the incident nor mentioned it further.On Saturday, fellow board member Chris VanDenhende confirmed Carson and Deatherages account of the incident to Tulsa World. While he said he did not actually see what played on the screen, VanDenhende noted that he did think it was odd that the TV was on during the session and tuned to what he said may have been a cable channel.In similar statements to The Oklahoman and NonDoc, Walters director of communications, Quinton Hitchcock, described Carson and Deatherages accounts as an absolute joke of a story and a junk tabloid lie. Any number of people have access to these offices, you have a hostile board who will say and do anything except tell the truth, Hitchcock said, describing the video as an alleged random TV cable image.This is a bizarre and troubling situation that raises serious questions about the events and what took place during yesterdays executive session at the Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting, Senate President Pro Tem Paxton said in his statement. The accounts made public by board members paint a strange, unsettling scene that demands clarity and transparency.Similarly, Oklahoma Senate Education Chair Adam Pugh (R) said in a statement that the situation warrants further explanation and transparency, according to local ABC affiliate KOCO. In a statement, Oklahoma House Speaker Kyle Hilbert (R) urged Walters to unlock and turn over all relevant devices and fully cooperate with an investigation, according to Oklahoma Voice. And Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) seemed to express confidence in Carson and Deatherages accounts in his own statement.I trust and appreciate my board members. They are volunteers who are sacrificing their time to serve Oklahoma students. Should these allegations be true, all I can say is that I am profoundly disappointed, Stitt said, according to KOCO.Walters, meanwhile, has continued to try to spin reports of the incident as politically motivated attacks on his extremist, far-right agenda. Some of these board members are blatantly dishonest and cannot hide their political agenda. It is disappointing that they are more interested in creating distractions than getting work done for Oklahoma families, he said Friday evening, according to KOCO. Any suggestion that a device of mine was used to stream inappropriate content on the television set is categorically false. I have no knowledge of what was on the TV screen during the alleged incident, and there is absolutely no truth to any implication of wrongdoing, he wrote in a separate statement posted to social media on Sunday. These falsehoods are the desperate tactics of a broken establishment afraid of real change. They arent just attacking me, theyre attacking the values of the Oklahomans who elected me to challenge the status quo.Walters has repeatedly made headlines in recent years for his anti-LGBTQ+, Christian nationalist policies. Following the death of 16-year-old trans Oklahoman Nex Benedict, Walters was accused of fostering the environment of anti-LGBTQ+ hostility that contributed to the teens tragic death. Last August, 21 Republican state lawmakers called for an impeachment investigation into his handling of the education department, where he has directed all Oklahoma school districts to incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments into their curricula for grades five through 12, ordered state schools to show students a video of him praying for then-President-elect, and appointed MAGA loyalists to overhaul Oklahomas social studies curriculum standards. A draft of those new guidelines published in March included a mandate that Oklahoma high school students be taught Donald Trumps conclusively debunked conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.