Posted on 09/16/2023 2:53:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Study says 50% of transgender people cancel or delay their medical appointments to avoid discrimination.
The French doctor admitted he didn't have the training or knowledge to treat trans patients - as experts say there's no need for a trans woman to visit a gynaecologist at all.
"I only treat real women" - that's what French gynaecologist Victor Acharian told a 26-year-old transgender woman he refused to treat in his clinic in the south-west of the country recently.
The transgender woman, accompanied by her boyfriend, went to a gynaecological appointment when, after minutes of waiting, the secretary told her that the doctor had refused to see her.
"I told her that I'm not competent, but I can guide you. I can refer you to services that can take better care of you. But after I said that, things went south," gynaecologist Victor Acharian told Euronews.
"I thought I was being honest when I said it wasn't my speciality. I don't know how to treat them and I don't mind being called ignorant," he added.
"You're transphobic!" the young woman reportedly shouted as she left the consulting room. According to the gynaecologist, the patient began to insult his secretary, reacting violently to the refusal.
The woman's partner, still in shock, left a comment on the clinic's Google reviews complaining about what had happened.
The doctor replied with a message addressed to a "gentleman", claiming that he treated "real women".
Tweet presenting the gynaecologist's answer on Google. He justified himself by saying that he had "no skills to treat men, even if they have shaved their beards and come to tell my secretary that they have become women".
He also asked the woman to take it upon herself to tell other transgender people that they were not welcome in his clinic.
After the incident, the patient was reported to be in a 'black hole' and still in 'shock', according to the French press.
Dr Acharian admits he lashed out with the online comments, but says his reasoning for not seeing the patient is still justified, and highlights an underlying problem for medical professionals.
"I reacted spontaneously, out of anger, and I felt I'd been unfairly attacked. I reacted with very clumsy words that may have offended. I'm well aware of that, I've expressed my regrets on several occasions," said Acharian.
"Now the situation has got out of hand, but the problem remains – these people need medical attention," he added.
But the controversy is raging in France, and transgender rights organisations from across Europe have come to the patient's defence.
"It is brutal to deny the right to health, it is a universal right that all citizens have," Mar Cambrollé, president of the Trans Platform Federation in Spain, told Euronews.
Canva Three French universities are providing training for trans healthcare.Canva ‘A cavity is not a classic vagina’ Although gynaecology is still associated with specialised care for women, it's not that simple anymore.
Doctors claim that a lack of knowledge makes it difficult for them to treat transgender people, while 50% of transgender people cancel or delay their medical appointments to avoid discrimination, according to the latest report published by Doctors of the World in collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals.
"Just because it's a cavity doesn't mean it's a classic vagina," Acharian explains, admitting his lack of knowledge about transgender patients. The doctor claims that this person was the first transgender woman he had seen in his thirty years of practice.
The challenge for medicine is to find new ways of dealing with changing social norms, as transgender people are still under-represented in medical curricula - but the story is changing.
Since September 2021, a conglomerate of three French universities started providing training for trans healthcare. The aim is for medical professionals to develop an understanding of transgender people's healthcare.
Béatrice Denaes, co-president of the association Trans-Santé France, pointed out in a French medical newspaper that doctors who are 'competent, caring and willing' to treat trans people are still rare, and that she receives 'many emails from desperate transgender people'.
Acharian echoed the desperation the community may feel - stating that the lack of follow-up by the medical establishment may leave some transgender people "on their own, wandering for health care".
Canva Doctors who are 'competent, caring and willing' to treat trans people are still rare, organisations say.Canva ‘More and more’ trans people All this at a time when the number of transition requests is on the rise.
For 2020 in France, around 3,300 people were recognised by the health insurance scheme as having a long-term condition for "gender dysphoria", ten times more than in 2013, according to a report submitted in January 2022 to France’s Ministry of Health.
"As more and more transgender patients are coming, it is the responsibility of the country's health authorities to be aware of this and to take them into account so that they can deal with this problem," Pernille Ravn, a member of the European Society of Gynaecology and a gynaecologist at Odense University Hospital in Denmark, told Euronews.
"There is no recommendation for a transgender woman to have regular gynaecological check-ups, unless she has a surgical problem related to the operation, because she doesn't have a uterus or a cervix," she added.
However, Ravn said that transgender women can have issues related to their surgery that require some kind of gynaecological assessment, so it's important to have specialists with knowledge in this area.
All the reports suggest that health professionals will one day have to treat transgender people.
Without proper training, these professionals "run the risk of adopting inappropriate attitudes that are not necessarily transphobic in intent - but have the same negative effects".
Setup.
“It’s France. Stick a cork in her “cavity” and be done.”
If you think it’s different here you haven’t been paying attention.
Its not that mental illness in itself is a problem.
Its when government demands you play along with others’ mental illness or govt will penalize you.
That why we need to remain armed. Formthe day we finally have to deal with them when they start coming formus for socialist perversion idiocy we won’t go along with.
mangina...
ROTFLOL
It is a permanent wound. You purposely have to work to keep it from healing closed. Neither is rolled up skin a penis.
What was wrong with the other body exit for sex? Why make a wound that does not possibly create pleasure and will not lead to an orgasm.
"The patient got really mad when I gave him the name of another doctor to address his needs - a proctologist."
“don’t pick at it”
Bwahahahahahaha!
I was eating a banana and nearly ruined my laptop screen when I read your remark!!
Bravo!
I was going to ask what tissue is used to create an open wound, then I realized the mutilater surgeon must line the wound with some tissue. I didn’t know the body keeps trying to expel it. Some detransitioner, like Chloe Cole, needs to create a website listing all the known side effects of “gender affirming” medicine, so it can be easily found.
I watched the Jazz Jennings TV shows when he had his lopitoffame. On the following show, Jennings was talking about his new “vagina,” and his non-transgender plastic surgeon said another name for it is open wound.
Trans-identifying men will then complain that they can’t go to the gynecologist. They’ll have to go to a “specialist. Like the demented guy who called the gynecologist transphobic. He wanted the doctor to look at his open wound and identify problems that he didn’t have training in.
That is why the gynecologist told the trans-identifying man he didn’t have the training or knowledge to treat him. He could give him the names of doctors who could treat him. I’m guessing he didn’t say he could refer him to gynecologists who could treat him. Probably suggested “gender affirming” doctors. That was too much reality for the wannabe patient to deal with.
Bingo!
I watched the Jazz Jennings shows when he had a lopitoffame. Jennings was talking to his non-transgender plastic surgeon about his new “vagina.” The doctor said another name for it is open wound.
It ain’t a her!
I would have taken its temperature and blood pressure and said, “that’s all I’m qualified to do.”
Yes they do, and if I recall correctly, they turn the penis inside out and use that. Trouble is, the outside of the penis is NOT designed to secret acid, which is how women keep bacterial infections under control. There is no immune system in their fake vaginas to keep it from getting infected. It becomes a perfect breeding ground for all sorts of nasty bacteria.
Some detransitioner, like Chloe Cole, needs to create a website listing all the known side effects of “gender affirming” medicine, so it can be easily found.
There was such a website. I have seen it. It shows countless numbers of botched surgeries, and yes, it is very graphic, and the stories of the individuals who had been so badly mutilated.
This was some years ago, and I've forgotten the name of it. I thought I could remember it, so I didn't bother saving it, and now I don't recall what it was. I think it was something like "Trans-regret.org" or some such.
On the following show, Jennings was talking about his new “vagina,” and his non-transgender plastic surgeon said another name for it is open wound.
Exactly correct. It is a Frankenstein surgery and very unhealthy.
Shoulda done what American docs do, viz. see the patient for 30 seconds, refer the patient to a specialist, then bill the patient’s insurance for a full visit.
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