In September 2025, a photograph of a sign that was allegedly hung at King's College Hospital in London circulated on social media. We have verified the accuracy of such publications.
The posts include a photo of a sign with the UK National Health Service (NHS) logo and the caption “Information stand at King's College London Hospital about pregnancy.” In some cases, the authors of the publications add caustic remarks like “British scientists have completely lost their minds.” Posts with this poster especially common V Facebook, one of them dialed more than 250 reposts.
Using a reverse image search, Verified found that the photo of the sign was initially distributed in the English-language segment of social networks. The earliest publication we could find was dated September 17, 2025. On this day photograph appeared on the page of user X with the username @MyLordBebo. “The UK's National Health Service shows pregnant men on an information poster. And how does a baby pass through a man’s penis during childbirth?” - the publication says.
All posts on this topic use the same photo, which often indicates a fake. “Verified” was able to find the source of the infographics used to create the poster. The author of the images is an American company The Edсucated Birth, which specializes in creating inclusive educational materials about reproductive health. Its founder, Cheyenne Varner, a birth support specialist, writes that in her practice she was faced with a lack of educational materials depicting black women - and decided to produce them herself.
The company's assortment includes a set of 12 illustrations "Anatomy of a pregnant person“- it includes essentially identical pictures depicting a cross-section of a pregnant woman’s body. Among them, it's easy to find the ones featured in the viral poster: a curly-haired dark-skinned woman, a light-skinned woman with long red hair, and a light-skinned man with short hair and a flat chest. From a biological point of view, this is absolutely a woman - she does not have a penis, but she has a uterus, ovaries and the birth canal. However, she does not have mammary glands, which means she may have undergone surgery to remove them. This illustration can be associated with either a woman who has gone through breast cancer (or has had a preventive mastectomy due to an increased risk of developing breast cancer) or a transgender man who, during the process of transition, retained his female reproductive organs in order to be able to carry and give birth to a child. Such cases are quite rare, but sometimes happen.
Representatives of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in response to a request from the Lead Stories fact-checking project reported: “This poster was not created by the foundation and is not displayed in our hospitals.”
Therefore, the viral poster has no connection to a real British hospital. This is a fake, created based on illustrations from an American project that specializes in creating inclusive educational materials about reproductive health.
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