Fact Check: 'Your Body During Pregnancy' Graphic Did NOT Appear In Official King's College Hospital NHS Poster

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  • by: Dean Miller
Fact Check: 'Your Body During Pregnancy' Graphic Did NOT Appear In Official King's College Hospital NHS Poster Not NHS Sign

Did a graphic including a short-haired person, labeled "Your body during pregnancy" appear in an official King's College Hospital NHS poster in the UK, as social media posts claim? No, that's not true: A spokesperson for the King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust told Lead Stories the poster was not produced by the trust nor displayed at its hospitals. The image resembles a private U.S. company's educational materials.

The infographic appeared in a September 17, 2025 X post (archived here) on the @MyLordBebo account with the following text:

UK's National Health Service shows pregnant men on an informational poster.

So how does the baby pass through the male penis during birth?

This is what the post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:

EducatedBirth.jpg

(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/MyLordBebo.)

In response to an enquiry from Lead Stories, a spokesperson for the King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust emailed on September 17, 2025, writing...

This poster has not been produced by the Trust, nor is it on display in any of our hospitals.

Lead Stories used a screenshot of the meme to conduct an exact-match reverse image search on Google. That search (archived here) only produced multiple X account posts posting the same image of the framed infographic.

A non-exact-match search led to infographics in the same cartoon style produced by The Educated Birth, a U.S. company that sells "inclusive reproductive health education and storytelling content." Started by a Virginia woman named Cheyenne Varner, the company's website said she found, in 2016, few training materials that showed black women and began producing materials showing women of color and non-cisgender women. The website now offers training materials in English and Spanish and includes people of all races as well as non-traditional parents in illustrations and photos.
But, a search of the site using short versions as well as the full title of the poster shown in the X posts did not lead to the exact image shown in the memes on X.
Some infographics on the site included the image of a short-haired pregnant person, but that person was not labelled a man. The diagram shows that short haired person without mammary glands, or a penis, but with uterus and ovaries intact, bearing a child.
Educated birth charts.jpg
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of www.theeducatedbirth.store/illustrations.)

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Dean Miller

Lead Stories Managing Editor Dean Miller has edited daily and weekly newspapers, worked as a reporter for more than a decade and is co-author of two non-fiction books. After a Harvard Nieman Fellowship, he served as Director of Stony Brook University's Center for News Literacy for six years, then as Senior Vice President/Content at Connecticut Public Broadcasting. Most recently, he wrote the twice-weekly "Save the Free Press" column for The Seattle Times. 

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