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".
put these freaks in padded cells where they belong!
lol - with the censorship I thought we were talking about dentistry! :D
I was thinking microwaves.
Only today can our world be so incredibly stupid that we have to play pretend with mentally ill people, or risk harm.
It’s France. Stick a cork in her “cavity” and be done.
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Let the doctors who mutilated their bodies treat them for their “womanly” concerns. Other physicians should not be required to participate in the Trans-GIBLETS mental illnesses.
Gynecologists specialize in women's reproductive systems. Only real women have them.
” I don’t know how to treat them”
A good psychiatric referral would be a start.
I confess my ignorance.
But, aren’t there differences between a vagina of a woman who was born female, and has always been female, vs. a “woman” who was born male, and has had an incision of some sort made in his body, which is his “vagina”?
Make believe carried out to the point of psychosis. This is like the businesses that advertise that they can speak Klingon. What do they do when some whack job comes in and starts spewing jibberish? Do they pretend to understand?
The website was full of horror stories. Hundreds of them.
Infection is a serious problem. The tissues used to create this artificial opening cannot function in the same way as women's tissue. It has no functional immune system and the body keeps trying to expel it.
It should be regarded as medical malpractice to engage in any of this, and doctors should go to prison for performing these types of surgeries.
There is no normal outcome for these people. They have to undergo constant maintenance and "dialation" to keep their pretend organ from getting infected or closing up.
This stuff should be banned.
After the incident, the patient was reported to be in a ‘black hole’ and still in ‘shock’, according to the French press.
If an incident such as this puts someone in shock, I hate to think how such a person can navigate all the ins and outs of life, all the situations which arise, all the disappointments and difficulties we face from time to time.
If a doctor told me that, I would take him or her at his word.
I had to stop reading after the first few lines. I say shove a scope so far up the “cavity” and keep pushing until you see a cervix.
“Only today can our world be so incredibly stupid that we have to play pretend with mentally ill people, or risk harm.”
If you disagree with a liberal, then that is DEFINED by them as committing an act of violence. They are then self-justified in “defending” themselves with violence. I saw a video of a liberal man roundhouse kick a woman protesting at an abortion clinic. She was trying to read scripture or something similar to him. He was offended and, as he put it, “struck back.” As long as the legal system that is supposed to defend us lets this behavior continue it will.
A few stitches, a little antibiotic cream and a band aid.
Don't pick at it.
The permanently offended and mentally ill.
After the incident, the patient was reported to be in a 'black hole' and still in 'shock', according to the French press.
Pobracita. Or pobracito?!
I looked up the correct doctor. It is a wound care physician.
Amazing someone would want that for himself.
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