{"id":2617201,"date":"2026-06-22T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-celebrates-fathers-day-by-running-bearded-women-can-replace-dads-propaganda\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:20:53","slug":"new-york-times-celebrates-fathers-day-by-running-bearded-women-can-replace-dads-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-celebrates-fathers-day-by-running-bearded-women-can-replace-dads-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Runs &#8216;Bearded Women Can Replace Dads&#8217; Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-celebrates-fathers-day-by-running-bearded-women-can-replace-dads-propaganda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2617201&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques how major media outlets like The new York Times depict fatherhood adn gender identity, especially during Father&#8217;s Day. It highlights a cartoon and opinion piece featuring a trans man describing himself as a &#8220;trans dad,&#8221; portraying body-mutilating surgeries and hormone treatments as equivalent to fatherhood. The author condemns this as absurd and indicative of a broader media campaign discarding conventional notions of fatherhood and masculinity. He points out that these narratives frequently enough rely on personal anecdotes rather than scientific or societal consensus, and tend to belittle real, traditional dads. The article also condemns media promotion of children participating in gender experiments influenced by adult social agendas, arguing that this fosters confusion and instability in children&#8217;s lives. Ultimately, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-poll-majority-of-voters-support-trump-on-immigration\/\" title=\"NBC Poll: Majority of Voters Support Trump On Immigration\">criticizes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-comms-team-gets-a-pass-where-trump-administration-would-have-had-a-scandal\/\" title=\"Biden Comms Team Gets A Pass Where Trump Administration Would Have Had A Scandal\">left-wing media<\/a><\/a> for showing contempt for genuine fatherhood and biological sex differences, which are rooted in natural and religious understandings of family and gender roles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For many Americans, Father\u2019s Day is an opportunity to spend time with family and show the dads in their lives (and specifically their own fathers) how much they appreciate all they do. Which means that for the legacy media outlets like The New York Times it\u2019s a day to run propaganda for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-new-york-law-could-put-criminally-insane-male-inmates-in-womens-prisons-advocates-fear\/\" title=\"Proposed New York Law Could Put Criminally Insane Male Inmates In Women...s Prisons, Advocates Fear\">mentally ill women<\/a> who think they become dads by removing female body parts and growing facial hair.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing media are no strangers to belittling dads, but there are different phases to the anti-father campaign, and the Times is apparently in the \u201canyone with a testosterone-injection-induced beard is just as good as a dad\u201d phase. In a 25-frame cartoon \u201copinion piece\u201d the Times ran Sunday, Clair \u201cZach\u201d Ellams describes \u201cliving as a trans man since I was 18 years old\u201d and then says she had to \u201clearn how to be a trans dad\u201d when she had a daughter, Elliot. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, the op-ed is everything one might expect: Ellams\u2019 daughter displays childlike honesty and asks perfectly reasonable questions about how Ellams got a mustache and how long she had breasts. And then Ellams presents her daughter as making her \u201chappy and secure\u201d by affirming her new identity. In fact, Elliot is purportedly the one teaching Ellams how to \u201cembrace\u201d her trans-identification: Elliot lives like a kid who has fun and who\u2019s comfortable with her personality, which is (somehow) clearly analogous to Ellams \u201cembracing\u201d her identity by undergoing body-mutilating surgery and cross-sex hormones.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>See, it all makes perfect sense, and it\u2019s not at all strange that one of the nation\u2019s leading papers would be printing this sort of illustrated delusion. To be fair to the Times, the cartoon artist portrays Ellams as a somewhat large figure with a baseball cap, facial scruff, and hairy legs, so readers might understand why an outlet with the perspicacity of the Times might conclude those features automatically make Ellams a dad. But the op-ed\u2019s clumsy absurdity is hardly the deepest issue here.<\/p>\n<p>First, note the legacy media double standard: If the media want to run cover for a never-before-tried sociological experiment where kids stand to lose a lot, what they need is first-person anecdotes, because they\u2019re powerful and authentic. If conservatives want to suggest that maybe there might be consequences for doing family the opposite of the way humans have done it for thousands of years, the media demand data and double-blind studies and randomised controlled trials. If <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >normies suggest natural immunity exists<\/a>, they consult scientists and experts to \u201cdebunk\u201d such conspiracy theories. But the corporate media are unquestionably objective, so their crusades to change the definition of things like fatherhood on the basis of absurd reductionist thinking that says growing a beard or cutting off breasts makes you a dad have far more credibility than the beliefs of everyday Americans, or so the theory goes.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctrans dad\u201d cartoon isn\u2019t a Times one-off either. There\u2019s a whole Times and legacy media narrative of anecdotes about fatherhood \u201cchanging.\u201d Dads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/20\/parenting\/they-want-to-be-better-fathers-one-braid-at-a-time.html\">are learning<\/a> to braid their daughters\u2019 hair, which ostensibly means they\u2019re \u201cchallenging the norms of fatherhood.\u201d Culture is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/15\/opinion\/fathers-day-fatherhood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">engaged<\/a> in a \u201cfitful movement away from archaic, cinching gender roles\u201d (says an NYT writer who admits he\u2019s not a father). And to tackle the question of America\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/29\/opinion\/young-men-masculinity-crisis.html\">Masculinity Crisis<\/a>\u201d last month, the Times brought in \u201cexperts\u201d who equated \u201cthe patriarchy\u201d with white supremacy and decried the concept of \u201cpositive masculinity\u201d because it might \u201cslightly reinforc[e] gender stereotypes.\u201d Being a dad doesn\u2019t mean what it used to mean, according to the Times. Dads don\u2019t even have to be male, because \u2026 anecdotes.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Cannot make this up, either.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> opinion has had four recent pieces about fatherhood and masculinity, with six authors:<\/p>\n<p>Three women<br \/>A trans &#8220;man&#8221;<br \/>Two childless men<\/p>\n<p>Not one father. The cultural elite contempt for dads runs so deep we don&#8217;t even get to speak for ourselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zLWJUDxQeW\">https:\/\/t.co\/zLWJUDxQeW<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexBerenson\/status\/2068759137610031161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A more serious problem with the propaganda piece is that it promotes neurotic, narcissistic adult behavior in which the parent co-opts the kids into the parent\u2019s personal social experiment. Manipulated into going along with her parent\u2019s delusion, the child\u2019s \u201caffirmation\u201d is heralded as if she\u2019s a 60-year-old psychiatrist with the wisdom of Solomon instead of an apparent preteen who likely doesn\u2019t know how to change a tire, let alone evaluate the long-term effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-walsh-to-joe-rogan-gender-ideology-is-driven-by-narcissism\/\" title=\"Matt Walsh to Joe Rogan: Gender Ideology Is Driven by Narcissism\">amputating body parts<\/a> and cosplaying as the opposite sex. Bravo, though. Everyone knows that kids have never been mistaken in their concept of right or wrong or what\u2019s a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an absurd form of behavior, and the media promoting it is designed to produce <em>more of it<\/em>. How marvelous for children. Smartphones, social media, and AI have made a child\u2019s world more uncertain and challenging, but what if major media outlets also reminded parents of how awesome it is for them to cosplay as the opposite sex? When children need stable adults in an unstable world, leftists are eager to encourage adults to act as if everything moves and nothing is stable.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New York Times celebrated Father\u2019s Day by saluting the real heroes: left-wing gender goblins who think mentally ill women mutilating themselves, mainlining hormone injections, and playing daddy dress-up are the true embodiment of fatherhood. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/thjKfyrGa4\">pic.twitter.com\/thjKfyrGa4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/2068810240779329774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The \u201ctrans dad\u201d cartoon is also a reminder that the legacy media have a sneering disdain for real fathers \u2014 plumbers, coders, truck drivers, preachers, and so forth, males who work for a living and spend much of their lives making sure their kids have a bed to sleep in, food to eat, and a solid chance at living a successful, meaningful life. Men who change diapers and kiss their girls on the forehead and tell their sons to suck it up and stop whining (because men have to do that a lot, and sons have to learn to be men). In reality, leftists simply hate fathers and the real world more generally \u2014 a world where tough men and tough women still pursue divisions of labor and duties that acknowledge physical realities and the sex differences are too obvious to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>The inquisitive reader might go a step further and ask why leftists like those at the Times have such an antipathy to fathers generally and seem so willfully blind to the reality (and necessity) of sex differences. Political conservatives would provide a variety of different answers: upbringing, ideology, culture, and so forth. But those who are Christian and conservative might point out that the issue can be traced back to leftists\u2019 troubled (or nonexistent) relationship with the One who created fathers and sex differences and everything else worth celebrating. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joshua Monnington is an assistant editor at The Federalist. He was previously an editor at Regnery Publishing and is a graduate of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many Americans, Father\u2019s Day celebrates dads; NYT pushes propaganda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3134,"featured_media":2617202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-06-22T080232.581.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[81526,37236,4488],"class_list":["post-2617201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bearded-women","tag-gender-roles","tag-propaganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-06-22T080232.581.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617205,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617201\/revisions\/2617205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2617202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}