Daily Express, December 14, 2017
It’s obvious that the person who handled this story hadn’t the faintest idea what it was about. The point is that Mr Kaci Sullivan has had two children, one while he was a woman and one while he was living as a man. This comes up in the third par but is not spelled out until the fifth.
This is how the Independent told it:
A transgender man has given birth to a healthy baby – five years after having his first child while living as a woman.
30-year-old Kaci Sullivan from Wisconsin, US, is believed to be the first person in the world to give birth living as both a woman and a man.
Sullivan already has one child, five-year-old Grayson, with his ex-husband. Grayson was born while Sullivan was living as a woman before transitioning.
It’s not perfect but it makes sense.
The Express heading is meaningless. The Independent is better:
Transgender man gives birth five years after having first child
but it still doesn’t quite grasp the point. I think it should be something like:
Mother has second child – this time as a man