The essay, titled “To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated,” was published Sunday morning<\/a> and presented in comic-strip form. It was written by Zach Ellams, a biological woman who identifies as a male, and focuses on Ellams\u2019 experience raising a daughter while navigating questions about gender.<\/p>\n Several illustrations show the child asking direct questions in everyday settings.<\/p>\n “How long did you have breasts for, Dad?” the daughter asks in one panel as the two walk down the street.<\/p>\n NY TIMES HAMMERED FOR ARTICLE REFERRING TO BIOLOGICAL WOMEN AS \u2018NON-TRANSGENDER WOMEN\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n People walk past The New York Times Building, a 52-story skyscraper on the west side of Midtown Manhattan, on January 14, 2025, in New York City. (Al Drago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n In another scene at a pool, the child asks, “How did you grow a mustache if you were a lady?”<\/p>\n A separate panel shows the daughter on a playground telling another child, “I want to grow a beard when I grow up.”<\/p>\n “You can\u2019t grow a beard. You\u2019re a girl,” the other child replies.<\/p>\n “My dad did, and he was a girl,” Ellams\u2019 daughter says.<\/p>\n The essay suggests the child accepts Ellams\u2019 gender identity with ease, helping the author more fully “embrace” who they are.<\/p>\n Critics, however, blasted The Times<\/a> for choosing to publish the piece on Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n LIZ PEEK: THE TRANS FEVER IS OVER \u2014 AND AMERICA IS RECKONING WITH THE DAMAGE DONE<\/a><\/p>\n The New York Times building is seen on May 6, 2026, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n “The New York Times published cartoons about being a trans dad for Father\u2019s Day,” Katie Miller, podcaster and former Department of Government Efficiency aide, wrote on X, “This is how they envision corrupting our children.”<\/p>\n Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, accused the paper of using Father\u2019s Day<\/a> to celebrate “playing daddy dress-up” as the “true embodiment of fatherhood.”<\/p>\n “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,” Davis wrote.<\/p>\n “On Father\u2019s Day, the New York Times is celebrating gender confused mothers. Wokeness may be limping a bit from injuries, but it isn\u2019t dead,” Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, wrote.<\/p>\n Tim Young, a media fellow for strategic communications at The Heritage Foundation, also criticized the piece.<\/p>\n LEFT-WING GOVERNOR RIPPED FOR \u2018INSANE\u2019 ANSWER ON WHETHER HE\u2019D SUPPORT MINOR SON\u2019S GENDER TRANSITION<\/a><\/p>\n President Donald Trump also ripped The New York Times on Father’s Day. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n “The New York Times reminds us all that they hate actual fathers on Fathers Day,” Young wrote.<\/p>\n The Father\u2019s Day controversy came the same day President Donald Trump<\/a> separately ripped the news outlet on Truth Social over its coverage of Iran.<\/p>\n “The way the Corrupt and Failing New York Times is covering stories on a very battered and beat up Iran<\/a>, through FAKE & MADE UP “FACTS” is, in my opinion, ‘TREASONOUS.’ I will be adding all of their false and ridiculous reporting to my multi Billion Dollar lawsuit against them. They are Criminals!” Trump wrote.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/the-new-york-times-building.jpg\")
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