It's not a conflict, it's a lack of interaction. Ideaology, unless you mod, has no connection or correlation with ANYTHING except vanilla.

I got really annoyed when i figured out they were beards and not muzzles, ngl

A lot of people are talking about the lack of interplay between Ideology and Biotech, but something that's currently driving me up the wall is that male xenos with Furskin seem to be required to have long/fluffy beards, even if the ideology requires short ones or no beards. Even with the Beardless gene, colonists still get the Look Change Required letter, and the Styling Station won't even bring up short beards/beardless as an opton.

Is anyone else having this issue, or is it possible a mod conflict or something? I don't have anything that modifies pawn appearance, so I can't imagine this being a problem outside of Biotech and Ideology clashing

Furskin and Ideology