NYT Runs "Bearded Women Can Replace Dads" Propaganda

somedudeonachair · 2026-06-23T06:23:15+00:00

"Clean shaven men can replace moms"

AVoiceInTheDarkn3ss · 2026-06-23T06:02:52+00:00

The NYT has become a joke excuse of a publication. CNN is more credible than them at this point.

RoryTate · 2026-06-23T15:46:43+00:00

Did these midwits never grow out of playing with dolls? They're supposed to be professional journalists, yet they can't stop thinking about hair. It's like they're still six years old.

hottake_toothache · 2026-06-23T16:41:01+00:00

But when conservatives ever bring up transgender it's, "Why are you obsessed with this tiny % of the population?"

Jake0024 · 2026-06-23T15:50:49+00:00

Literally who cares? LGBT people can have kids too. Next you'll say water is wet

Aless76109 · 2026-06-23T12:38:00+00:00

Yeah man using “bearded women” to refer to trans men has got to be the biggest bullshit, hateful lie a person has ever made just to spite and ragebait people into acting like “women are replacing fathers” trans men are men, easy as pie, so why should it be a problem if men are fathers?

omegaphallic · 2026-06-23T07:31:01+00:00

I have no interest in bashing trans Dads, and its not about replacing anybody.

They want to be a Dad, and deal with all the shit one can expect going along with that, I can respect that. This ain't MRA version of TERFs.

The right is trying to turn you against trans community so were all to busy to contront the rich.

Jaffacakes-and-Jesus · 2026-06-23T07:41:13+00:00

In this house we believe that trans men are men and should be embraced and celebrated as brothers and as dads!

YetAnotherCommenter · 2026-06-23T08:27:30+00:00

This is just tradcon gender essentialism masquerading as men's rights.

Trying to remove males from parenting IS a bad thing. On that, they're right. The idea that males or male-typical traits are useless is pernicious.

But the idea that "all children need a mother (implied: a nurturant caregiver who is biologically female, lacks gender dysphoria and is the 'good cop') and father (implied: a careerist breadwinner who is biologically male, lacks gender dysphoria and does the shouting and punishing)" is false, and really just sets up Parental Alienation by default (as well as allowing mothers to engage in proxy abuse and shift the blame onto the dads).

The social science research is pretty clear - we know two parent families produce better results than single mothers. I don't think there's enough data on single fathers, and the only big study on same-sex parenting I'm aware of was full of unjustifiable value judgments like "if the kid tried pot once when they were in high school, the kid is a moral degenerate and a blight on society."

But really, to hear The Federalist claim that a child has a "right" to a mother and a father is ridiculous. Most Americans on the political right understand "rights" as negative liberties, NOT ENTITLEMENTS. In addition, unless The Federalist wants to put mandatory husbands into every single mother household, or make single motherhood illegal, or make divorce illegal for married couples with children, they don't actually believe every child is entitled to married opposite-sex biological parents raising them.

Let's just, as a thought experiment, presume that opposite-sex biological parents in a committed marriage are in fact the best parents on average. Well tough shit, because someone needs to take care of the orphans and there aren't enough opposite sex married couples willing to adopt all of the orphans.

So what's the minimum standard of living we can provide for a child? The foster care system. And are kids in foster care necessarily having their rights violated? No, frankly. If, politically speaking, we accept foster families as an acceptable "floor" standard, and we acknowledge the reality that (for varying and often depressing reasons) not every child is able to be raised by their biological parents, then we arrive at a relatively simple conclusion:

EVEN IF same-sex parents, or parents with gender dysphoria, or even a single parent household doesn't on average produce results as good as married-opposite-sex-parents, any household should be able to adopt if that household can be reasonably expected to produce better results than foster care.

Yes, that means not every kid gets raised in the optimal family structure. Again, tough shit, because whilst every kid surely deserves to live a childhood without any kind of material hardship, we still let the poor breed. Every kid surely deserves competent education but, as The Federalist clearly knows, the nature of the US public school system and the powerful teacher's unions means not every kid gets one! Every kid surely deserves to not be born with any birth defects but, well, you know how it works.

Honestly there's something kind of funny about this article, because on this issue and seemingly this issue alone The Federalist is completely abandoning the typical logic of the American right (which sees rights as negative liberties rather than entitlements, disparate outcomes as inevitable, limitations and tradeoffs as the norm, and rejects the idea that needing or benefitting from or morally deserving something constitutes an entitlement to it).

As someone who, by American standards, is on the libertarian right, I find the hypocrisy very galling.

Let's be honest - this article isn't really motivated by a belief in men's rights. This article is based in tradcon hostility towards unconventional families. And look, there are some unconventional families that are deeply unhealthy environments for children.

But there are also a LOT of married heterosexuals who are, or would be, terrible parents.

EnterprisingGent1701 · 2026-06-23T20:11:18+00:00

OP, I have to wonder what your point was in posting this--unless it was to invite the bashing of trans men. The article in question is incredibly transphobic. To quote, for the NYT, "it’s [Father's Day] a day to run propaganda for mentally ill women who think they become dads by removing female body parts and growing facial hair."

Transsexual dads are dads. The NYT op-ed in question was written for Father's Day. Many biologically male dads aren't the fathers of their children (infertility and adoption are a thing). I don't see what the issue is.

Title	NYT Runs "Bearded Women Can Replace Dads" Propaganda
Author	raffu280
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Date	June 23, 2026 4:56 AM UTC (3 weeks ago)
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