We were reading this story this afternoon, about a transgender man who reportedly kept his female sex organs and is now pregnant, and really marvelling at the wonderful fluidity of modern gender roles and relationships.

That was, until we got to the end of the piece and the "staff writers" had to go and stuff it all up with this clanger in the closing paragraph:

Mr Beatie doesn't appear to be the first "pregnant" male. See the story of Mr Lee Mingwei who is apparently the first born male to give birth to a baby from his body.

"Apparently"! That's a word those Walkley judges are really on the lookout for, isn't it?

The thing is, if the News Ltd clowns had bothered to take the time to head over to urban legend and online hoax database Snopes, they would have found that Mr Lee Mingwei is to male pregnancy as "free c1al1s!" is to the hopes and dreams of flaccid systems engineers everywhere.

Go team! Keep on kicking them journalistic goals!

 

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