Critics have been saying almost since the beginning that the transgender movement is erasing women — but The New York Times celebrated Father’s Day by proving they’re erasing men too.
The article in question, a guest essay titled “To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated,” was published on Sunday morning — just in time for Father’s Day — and used a comic strip style to explore the trials and travails of a trans-identifying woman’s foray into “fatherhood.”
The frames reveal that the author, Zach Ellams, had been identifying as male for years, but had not officially announced to everyone that she was trans — but once she had a daughter, she had to learn to talk about things, in part because her daughter asked questions in public that made it necessary.
In one frame, while at a public pool, the daughter drew stares by asking, “How did you grow a mustache if you were a lady?”
In another, the daughter announced after school, “I told my friends at school that Mom made you a cake when you got your surgery.”
The moral of the story, as the article played out, was that the daughter was ultimately so accepting of her gender that she realized it was adults who made things complicated — and that helped her to “embrace” her male identity.
Critics were not impressed by the paper’s editorial choices for Father’s Day, however, and said so.
“This is what the @nytimes went with for Fathers Day. A cartoon ‘essay’ by a trans ‘dad,'” XX/XY Athletics founder Jennifer Sey commented.
Matt Taibbi added, “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.”
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: https://t.co/oCQhSr2nJB pic.twitter.com/Y6jl0unK8c
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) June 21, 2026
“I want to congratulate @nytimes for perfectly catching how the cultural elite view men and fatherhood this Father’s Day — yes, to the Times, being a dad is something you do to feel better about having your t*ts cut off. Cannot make it up,” Alex Berenson said.
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