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French gynaecologist suspended for refusing to treat trans woman
The Times ^ | January 31, 2025 | David Chazan

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.


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KEYWORDS: acharian; europe; france; gynaecologist; healthcare; trans; transsupremacy; xyxx
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To: grundle
After posting the last message, something else came to mind. This week in my college music class we've been discussing, among other 19th century composers, Ancieto Ortega, Mexico's version of Charles Ives.

Ives is famous for "inventing" the concept of personal financial planning in his years with what is now AXA Equitable, but he is also famous for composing music without worrying about trying to live off his music.

Ortega is famous for composing the Zaragosa March and the opera Guatimoztin, but he is also famous for being Mexico's first gynecologist, and for building the first women's hospital in Mexico. When he was studying medicine, he went to Paris to study gynecology, since that was where all the latest research was being conducted. I wonder what he would say about how far French gynecological medicine has fallen.

21 posted on 02/06/2025 7:24:43 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: exnavy

“Feminists also backed him, pointing out that the patient had not had gender reassignment surgery and gynaecological care was not appropriate. “

So it’s a full functioning DUDE who complains because a doctor won’t examine what he hasn’t got? The dude really needs a psychiatrist not gynecologist.


22 posted on 02/06/2025 7:25:31 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Before you post a nasty, stop and think: "Would that person slap me if I said it in person?" )
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To: grundle

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”.

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Who are the people that barred him? Their careers should be over.


23 posted on 02/06/2025 7:28:24 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: exnavy

The JOKE is how many on the other thread don’t want to help the white South Africans about to be slaughtered while NONSENSE that no one gives a ####a about is being posted a little below it :)

We get it. W Europe has gone insane.

Now when we get a chance to help many thousands who very likely thing like us and bring them here...too many sound terrified to make a move.

Just damn


24 posted on 02/06/2025 7:30:43 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: grundle
La France est perdue !

La seule chose qui peut sauver la France, c'est Donald Trump, et il est occupé.

25 posted on 02/06/2025 7:42:39 AM PST by Savage Beast (In a certain way I felt very safe because I had God on my side. --Donald Trump)
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To: grundle

What exactly was the doctor supposed to do?

Men pretending to be women do not have women parts and for the doctor to pretend to check parts that do not exist is the hight of absurdity.

In a saner era this would have been instantly recognized as a case of delusion on the part of the patient.


26 posted on 02/06/2025 7:42:43 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: grundle
This is just like a doctor who's unable to treat an anorexic patient for obesity.


The issues in this patient's mind won't be solved by surgically altering their crotch.

27 posted on 02/06/2025 7:43:42 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: grundle

Being a medical doctor does not enable you to be a cyborg or chimara repairman.


28 posted on 02/06/2025 7:44:34 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (If you see "Acheta" protein in a product, know that it has been adulterated with insect protein)
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To: grundle

Oh, you have a growth. Let me remove it with some LN2.


29 posted on 02/06/2025 7:52:06 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: exnavy

Any truth to the rumor that he Dr. told the Trans “Damnit Jim I’m a Gynecologist not a Proctologist !”.


30 posted on 02/06/2025 7:58:27 AM PST by Mastador1
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To: grundle

Shouldn’t IT be treated by a plastic surgeon?


31 posted on 02/06/2025 8:02:01 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK like the rest of !US:-))
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To: exnavy

He could have done the exam and then cauterized the accesses she had on her labia.


32 posted on 02/06/2025 8:04:06 AM PST by Ikeon ( Why don't they, do what they say? Say what they mean? One thing leads to another. )
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To: grundle

The Frenchies are surrender monkeys.

They will surrender to anybody, anytime including perverts pretending to be women.


33 posted on 02/06/2025 8:06:07 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: grundle

34 posted on 02/06/2025 8:16:46 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: chajin

Years ago, my OB/GYN told me that, back in the day, the French were light-years ahead of other nations in his field. He explained that the Parisian doctors began seriously studying gynecology because of all the women suffering from fistula . . . generally due to complications with delivery. You can look it up . . . very debilitating, unpleasant, and potentially fatal condition (especially before antibiotics).


35 posted on 02/06/2025 8:19:00 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: grundle

Hey retarded frogs. Ain’t a woman.


36 posted on 02/06/2025 8:31:40 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: grundle
How the hell can you perform gynecological services on someone with NO FREAKIN' VAGINA?

This is all so stupid. France needs a Trump, like, now.

37 posted on 02/06/2025 8:33:41 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: grundle

These people are cuckoo for cocoa puffs.


38 posted on 02/06/2025 8:33:59 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: grundle

Treat, how?

Show and tell so the perv can get off? Because the doc admitted she wasn’t qualified to deal with “their” problems, but knew someone who was and was willing to give a referral.


39 posted on 02/06/2025 8:39:59 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Bon of Babble

“What exactly was the doctor supposed to do?”

Show the guy a speculum, open it, and explain how it is used. Bet he zips up and runs for the door.


40 posted on 02/06/2025 8:51:51 AM PST by ryderann
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