{"id":273356,"date":"2026-06-21T20:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273356\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T20:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T20:21:21","slug":"opinion-what-i-learned-about-parenting-as-a-trans-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273356\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | What I Learned About Parenting as a Trans Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-f3337s erlrjdy0\">Zach Ellams is an editor and motion designer from London. Hannah Jacobs is an animation director and illustrator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-f3337s erlrjdy0\">The Times is committed to publishing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/01\/31\/opinion\/letters\/letters-to-editor-new-york-times-women.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a diversity of letters<\/a> to the editor. We\u2019d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/help.nytimes.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/115014925288-How-to-submit-a-letter-to-the-editor\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tips<\/a>. And here\u2019s our email: <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/21\/opinion\/mailto:letters@nytimes.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letters@nytimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-f3337s erlrjdy0\">Follow the New York Times Opinion section on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nytopinion\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nytopinion\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nytopinion\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nytopinion.nytimes.com\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaN8tdZ5vKAGNwXaED0M\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsApp<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nytopinion\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Ellams is an editor and motion designer from London. Hannah Jacobs is an animation director and illustrator.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105269,97812,5294,97071,9,11,10,233],"class_list":["post-273356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-comic-books-and-strips","tag-fathers-day","tag-gender","tag-lgbtq-pride-month-us","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}