There’s something unseemly going on with Kristi Noem’s husband\u2014and it’s not the giant, fake balloon breasts.<\/p>\n

Bryon Noem, longtime spouse of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, was just outed by the Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> as a kinkster with a fondness for bimbofication (fantasies in which women undergo extreme transformations into cartoonish sex symbols) and perhaps autogynephilia (in which men are turned on by the thought of themselves as women).<\/p>\n

How should we feel about this? Maybe firstly, like someone in the writer’s room of this farce we call 2026 has gotten bored.<\/p>\n

War? Done that. DoorDash discourse? Done that. Armed federal agents shooting citizens for protesting cruel immigration policies? We’ve aired that episode at least twice already! But wait\u2014what if the husband of the woman presiding over those extrajudicial killings dressed himself up with comically uneven fake nipples and a duck face pout and sent those photos to sex workers? Now that’s<\/em> sure to get ratings….\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t mean to sound callous about the killings and other atrocities carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers under his wife’s direction. It’s precisely those things\u2014the shock and horror of them, the cruelty and unaccountability\u2014that make me extra wary of the Bryon Noem fetish-photos news cycle. There is plenty of legitimate fodder for criticism in Kristi Noem’s record. No one needs to go digging into her husband’s sex life for fuel.<\/p>\n

And, in fact, doing so could actually detract from criticism of Kristi Noem’s record, giving her and her supporters room to dismiss political opponents as part of a cruel and personal campaign against her family.<\/p>\n

I also feel bad for the Noems’ children and grandchildren. And, yes, for Bryon Noem\u2014even if he was reckless, and even if he has other things to answer for. (“At least he did this on his own dime and without shooting protesters in the face,” comments<\/a> Nick Gillespie.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Being married to a public figure shouldn’t automatically make your sex life fair game. And the Mail<\/em>‘s attempt to frame this as a national security issue seems like a weak attempt to justify this invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n

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For those interested in Kristi Noem's husband cross-dressing, I have written deeply about another man's cross-dressing being "discovered." It ended tragically https:\/\/t.co\/238162wOj5<\/a><\/p>\n

— Nancy Rommelmann (@NancyRomm) March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n