Posted on 02/06/2025 7:02:09 AM PST by grundle
Dr Victor Acharian, who sparked a media storm after telling a patient he only treated ‘real women’, has been barred from practising for a month
A French gynaecologist has been barred from practising for a month because he refused to examine a transgender patient on the grounds that he was only qualified to treat “real women”.
Dr Victor Acharian was accused of transphobia after he turned the patient away in August 2023, and LGBT groups lodged complaints.
In December he appeared before a disciplinary board of the French Medical Council and he has now been suspended for a month from March 1, with an additional five months’ probation.
Édouard Martial, a lawyer representing the patient, said: “We have the satisfaction of having confirmation that what happened that day was totally abnormal.”
SOS Homophobie, a transgender activist group, issued a statement saying that the doctor’s actions were potentially “also punishable by criminal sanctions”.
The row has drawn national media coverage and polarised public opinion, with some gynaecologists taking Acharian’s side and arguing that treating transgender patients required special training. Feminists also backed him, pointing out that the patient had not had gender reassignment surgery and gynaecological care was not appropriate.
LGBT groups, however, said that transgender patients often faced discrimination or difficulties in gaining access to healthcare.
Acharian, who practises in Pau, southwestern France, has the right to appeal against the suspension but according his office said he had not yet decided whether to do so.
Weeks after the incident, Acharian apologised for any offence caused and said he had offered to refer the trans patient to a specialist who could provide appropriate medical care.
The patient, however, described his refusal as “hyper-violent”.
“I was in shock,” the patient said. “It was the first time I had suffered this sort of transphobia.”
Acharian said the patient shouted, “you’re transphobic”, and insulted his secretary before leaving the clinic.
“I was only trying to be honest when I said it wasn’t my specialty and I wasn’t competent. I offered to refer her to services that could take better care of her,” he said.
The patient’s partner left a Google review complaining about Acharian’s refusal, and he responded with a message addressed to a “gentleman”, saying that he only treated “real women”.
“I have no skills to take care of men, even if they have shaved their beards and they come and tell my secretary that they have become women. My gynaecological examination table is not suitable for examining men,” Acharian wrote.
He later said: “I reacted spontaneously, out of anger, as I felt I was being attacked unfairly. My words were very clumsy and they may have caused offence. I’m well aware of that and I have expressed my regret on several occasions.”
He said he was neither transphobic nor homophobic and had “helped many of my lesbian patients to have a child”.
Marguerite Stern, a prominent women’s rights activist who has repeatedly clashed with transgender groups over the definition of a woman, said Acharian’s suspension was unjustified.
“Gynaecologists are only qualified to treat women … We are living in a world of lunatics,” she said.
The French National Authority for Health, which oversees medical care, is preparing new guidelines for GPs and specialists on appropriate treatment for transgender patients.
There is a joke in there somewhere.
The joke is France.
Folks,
My mechanic won’t work on a highly modified car. There is too much to go wrong and he can’t spend enough time discovering what bubba may or may not have done.
Grant her asylum in the USA.
In related news, Trump signed the EO keeping short-arm people from participating in crevice people sports. Listening to different sources as I usually do, I happened to notice how different news organizations presented the event. Newsmax said the EO prohibited biological males from women's sports. Fox (radio) News said it prohibited transgenders. KYW Newsradio (Philadelphia) said it prohibited transgender women.
The guy is pregnant, dammit! 🤢
It was a South Park episode years ago.
If the patient doesn’t possess the requisite equipment, what, exactly, is the doctor supposed to examine?
Complete insanity. They demand the sane engage in their insanity. There are no mommy parts there for a gynecologist to examine, yet they demand the gynecologist pander to the craziness. It is long past time for all to speak out on this when the subject comes up. There is no such thing as a “trans woman”. There are males who present themselves as women. Full stop.
BTTT
Matt and Trey were really ahead of the news cycle on this one, by around 15 years. Pretty amazing, they saw it coming.
the mechanic at our local shop said they are only qualified to work on automatic transmissions. they won’t touch a stick.
Following the same logic this freak better not request a prostate exam.
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Fits rather nicely with the diabolic narcissists club, the Club of Rome from decades back and continuing, the over-population nut cases club, an the general deviants and perverts organizations. Plastic surgeons and drug companies cheer their profits.....
He should ask the French Medical Council to send their best OBGYN to train him on how to do it.
actually ANY asylum would be appropriate.
Just when you thought it was as ridiculous as it could get.
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