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.
In other words he still had his pen!s.
Well, tell ya what, Buddy, I'll be happy to go looking for your (non-existent) uterus THROUGH YOUR PEN!S.
Nurse, hand me that SPECULUM, we'll open this thing right up....
The only offense is some dude with restocked claiming to be female. The doc had it right
Legitimately the Dr. may not know what problems or complications may occur with this highly physically and chemically altered person.
‘Hello doctor, looks like I need an abortion,’ she says.
‘An abortion?’ the doctor replies.
‘Yeah I’ve got one growing inside me. Now, are you going to scramble its brains or just vacuum it out?’
The doctor sighs and says: ‘Mr. Garrison,’ to which she replies: ‘Mrs Garrison!’
The doctor perseveres.
‘Mrs. Garrison, you can’t have an abortion.’
‘Don’t you tell me what I can and can’t do with my body! A woman has a right to choose!’ she says, leaping out of the doctor’s chair and stirrups.
‘No I mean you’re physically unable to have an abortion because you can’t get pregnant,’ the doctor explains.
‘But I missed my period,’ says a confused Garrison.
‘You can’t have periods either. You had a sex change Mr. Garrison, but you don’t have ovaries or a womb. You don’t produce eggs.’
A downtrodden Garrison replies: ‘You mean, I’ll never know what it feels like to have a baby growing inside me and scramble its brains and vacuum it out?’
The doctor confirms: ‘That’s right.’
‘But I paid $5,000 to be a woman. This would mean I’m not really a woman. I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis,’ says Garrison.
The doctor agrees: ‘Basically, yes’ to which Garrison replies: ‘Oh boy, do I feel like a jacka**.’
~~~ South Park from 2005
It was a South Park episode years ago.
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See post 44
“Gynaecologists are only qualified to treat women … We are living in a world of lunatics,” she said.
It’s a Monty Python world.
LOL! That’s funny right there!
Exactly what I was thinking of with my #14. Thanks.
Here’s the joke: LGBTQ ETC are bullies. And the Ts are always saying, I’m so hot, I’m so hot. And the rest are agreeing, She so hot, she so hot. Dave Chappell says it best. LOL
There you go.
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