The New York Times marked Father’s Day with a guest essay thumbing its nose at traditional families with a trans twist — “What I Learned About Parenting as a Trans Dad.” Yes, a Father’s Day essay from a “father” who is actually a woman.
Fox News provided the details: “It was written by Zach Ellams, a biological woman who identifies as a male, and focuses on Ellams’ experience raising a daughter while navigating questions about gender. Several illustrations show the child asking direct questions in everyday settings.”
The opening panel captions of this apparently true account:
I’ve been living as a trans man since I was 18 years old.
But when my wife and I had Elliot, I had to learn how to be a trans dad.
The phrase “when my wife and I had Elliot” suggests anatomical impossibilities the cartoon doesn’t explain.
This cartoon essay is proof that the paper’s transgender agenda won’t let any traditional holiday pass without providing an alternative-lifestyle spin on it. Things became truly cartoonish, in the sense of lacking realism, with a panel showing the daughter on a playground gym telling a playmate, “I want to grow a beard when I grow up.”
“You can’t grow a beard. You’re a girl,” the other girl says.
“My dad did, and he was a girl,” the daughter replies. The “dad” in the panel indeed sports cartoon stubble.
There was no specific Father’s Day hook to the piece, meaning the paper could have posted it anytime but chose Father’s Day specifically.
Journalist Matt Taibbi responded on X: “Today’s NYT editorial on Father’s Day is an all-timer. Again, don’t know where to put it on the funny-vs-horrifying axis.”
Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, used the cartoon to note on X that “Wokeness may be limping a bit from injuries, but it isn’t dead.”
The Times seems to enjoy knocking down traditional parental roles for the holidays; witness the tease to a 4,000-word piece that ran on Father’s Day 2011: “In Brooklyn, a single mother, her son, her sperm donor and his lover are helping to redefine the concept of the American family.”