Did the UK National Health Service (NHS) King's College Hospital show pregnant men on an informational poster, as a social media post claims? No, that's not true: An NHS spokesperson told Lead Stories the poster is not an NHS product and is not displayed at King's College Hospital. The image resembles a private U.S. company's educational materials.
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.
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of www.theeducatedbirth.store/illustrations.)
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