A French gynecologist has been suspended from practicing medicine for one month and penalized with an additional five months of probation by the French Medical Council for declining to treat a 26-year-old man who identifies as a woman.
In August 2023, a trans-identifying man and his partner showed up at Dr. Victor Acharian’s office in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Pau region of southwestern France. Acharian, naturally, treats only women, and after several moments, his secretary told the man that Acharian wouldn’t see him. “I told her that I’m not competent, but I can guide you,” Acharian explained. “I can refer you to services that can take better care of you. But after I said that, things went south.”
The prospective patient began to insult the staff, yelling “You’re transphobic!” at Acharian, and stormed out with his partner, who left a Google review stating: “It was my trans partner’s first appointment. He refused to see her, his secretary threw us out coldly. I advise against [visiting]. Never again.”
Acharian responded in an attempt to defend himself:
SIR, I am a gynecologist, and I take care of real women. I have no skills to take care of MEN, even if they have shaved their beards and come to tell my secretary that they [have] become women. My GYNECOLOGICAL examination table is not suitable for examining men. You have specialized and very competent services to take care of men like you. Thank you for informing TRANS people to never come for consultation with me.
The trans-identifying man promptly sent a complaint to Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins (CNOM)—the regulatory body that oversees the medical profession in France—and the LGBT activist organization SOS Homophobie released a statement, tagging the French Minister of Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination Bérangère Couillard: “We denounce the transphobic and discriminatory remarks of gynaecologist Victor Acharian in Pau. Transphobia is a reality with serious consequences, particularly in access to health. It affects the entire territory.”
The tactic worked. Acharian was summoned to appear before the disciplinary board of the French Medical Council on December 16th, 2024, where he was suspended from practice for the month of March, with an additional five-month probation. He was warned that if he “engaged in transphobia” or similarly denied treatment to a trans-identifying male during that period, he would be further disciplined. Acharian’s insistence that he lacked the expertise to treat such patients was ignored.
Acharian noted that he’d never had a “transgender” patient before and pointed out, with a hint of plaintive defiance, that: “Just because it’s a cavity doesn’t mean it’s a classic vagina.”
Reduxx noted that Acharian had previously responded similarly to a one-star review with the statement: “Dear Sir. I do not know you. You cannot know me, since I am a gynecologist, and I only treat women. As for your political militancy, that does not concern me.”
Acharian, like so many other ordinary citizens targeted by the transgender movement’s attempts to conform society to their ideology and force collective compliance, found out the hard way that trans militancy very much does concern him. Édouard Martial, the lawyer for the spurned trans-identifying man gloated about his suspension: “We are pleased to have confirmation that what happened that day was totally abnormal.” The suspension and probation weren’t enough for SOS Homophobie, which suggested that his actions were “also punishable by criminal sanctions.”
As Reduxx reported, trans activists have frequently been willing to work outside the law to accomplish their ends, as well. Feminist activist Marguerite Stern came to Acharian’s defence, writing on X: “Gynecologists are trained to treat WOMEN’s genitals. Not inverted penises or cavities created using pieces of colon or peritoneum. We live in a world of lunatics.” She has experienced the wrath of the transgender movement first-hand.
Stern is the co-author, along with journalist Dora Motout, of Transmania: Investigation into the Abuses of Transgender Ideology, published last year. In an interview with europeanconservative.com, Motout told me that it has become dangerous to oppose transgender ideology in France. “We gave a conference at Assas University in Paris [in June 2024], and we had 15 police buses to protect us,” she told me. “Hundreds of people were chanting ‘A TERF, a bullet, social justice!’ in front of us. It was impossible to enter the university. The police had to help us find another entrance. I also had to move out of my home because I received death threats.”
While some European countries are quietly dropping plans to implement the transgender agenda—both the UK and the Netherlands recently scrapped “self-identification” policies—France is thus far defying the trend. Since 2017, trans-identifying people can change their legal gender without any surgical or medical intervention (although they must still undergo a court process). So-called “conversion therapy,” which could include counselling to assist gender dysphoric individuals to become comfortable in their own bodies, was banned in 2022. Discrimination based on “gender identity” has been illegal since 2012, with “transphobia” being recognized as an “aggravating circumstance” in crimes in 2017, and further training for law enforcement to combat “discrimination” against LGBT people in 2023.
There have been a few glimmers of sanity on the horizon. In 2021, an open letter condemning “sex reassignment” for children was signed by more than 50 medical professionals and prominent academics, including doctors, legal experts, educational experts, philosophers, sociologists, psychiatrists, judges, and psychoanalysts, and published on the L’Express website. In 2022 the National Academy of Medicine highlighted the potential health risks of sex change “treatments” for minors, and advised both extreme caution and thorough psychological support before such treatments commence.
Dr. Victor Acharian has the right to appeal his suspension but has not yet decided if he will do so.
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A French gynecologist has been suspended from practicing medicine for one month and penalized with an additional five months of probation by the French Medical Council for declining to treat a 26-year-old man who identifies as a woman.
In August 2023, a trans-identifying man and his partner showed up at Dr. Victor Acharian’s office in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Pau region of southwestern France. Acharian, naturally, treats only women, and after several moments, his secretary told the man that Acharian wouldn’t see him. “I told her that I’m not competent, but I can guide you,” Acharian explained. “I can refer you to services that can take better care of you. But after I said that, things went south.”
The prospective patient began to insult the staff, yelling “You’re transphobic!” at Acharian, and stormed out with his partner, who left a Google review stating: “It was my trans partner’s first appointment. He refused to see her, his secretary threw us out coldly. I advise against [visiting]. Never again.”
Acharian responded in an attempt to defend himself:
The trans-identifying man promptly sent a complaint to Conseil National de l’Ordre des Médecins (CNOM)—the regulatory body that oversees the medical profession in France—and the LGBT activist organization SOS Homophobie released a statement, tagging the French Minister of Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination Bérangère Couillard: “We denounce the transphobic and discriminatory remarks of gynaecologist Victor Acharian in Pau. Transphobia is a reality with serious consequences, particularly in access to health. It affects the entire territory.”
The tactic worked. Acharian was summoned to appear before the disciplinary board of the French Medical Council on December 16th, 2024, where he was suspended from practice for the month of March, with an additional five-month probation. He was warned that if he “engaged in transphobia” or similarly denied treatment to a trans-identifying male during that period, he would be further disciplined. Acharian’s insistence that he lacked the expertise to treat such patients was ignored.
Acharian noted that he’d never had a “transgender” patient before and pointed out, with a hint of plaintive defiance, that: “Just because it’s a cavity doesn’t mean it’s a classic vagina.”
Reduxx noted that Acharian had previously responded similarly to a one-star review with the statement: “Dear Sir. I do not know you. You cannot know me, since I am a gynecologist, and I only treat women. As for your political militancy, that does not concern me.”
Acharian, like so many other ordinary citizens targeted by the transgender movement’s attempts to conform society to their ideology and force collective compliance, found out the hard way that trans militancy very much does concern him. Édouard Martial, the lawyer for the spurned trans-identifying man gloated about his suspension: “We are pleased to have confirmation that what happened that day was totally abnormal.” The suspension and probation weren’t enough for SOS Homophobie, which suggested that his actions were “also punishable by criminal sanctions.”
As Reduxx reported, trans activists have frequently been willing to work outside the law to accomplish their ends, as well. Feminist activist Marguerite Stern came to Acharian’s defence, writing on X: “Gynecologists are trained to treat WOMEN’s genitals. Not inverted penises or cavities created using pieces of colon or peritoneum. We live in a world of lunatics.” She has experienced the wrath of the transgender movement first-hand.
Stern is the co-author, along with journalist Dora Motout, of Transmania: Investigation into the Abuses of Transgender Ideology, published last year. In an interview with europeanconservative.com, Motout told me that it has become dangerous to oppose transgender ideology in France. “We gave a conference at Assas University in Paris [in June 2024], and we had 15 police buses to protect us,” she told me. “Hundreds of people were chanting ‘A TERF, a bullet, social justice!’ in front of us. It was impossible to enter the university. The police had to help us find another entrance. I also had to move out of my home because I received death threats.”
While some European countries are quietly dropping plans to implement the transgender agenda—both the UK and the Netherlands recently scrapped “self-identification” policies—France is thus far defying the trend. Since 2017, trans-identifying people can change their legal gender without any surgical or medical intervention (although they must still undergo a court process). So-called “conversion therapy,” which could include counselling to assist gender dysphoric individuals to become comfortable in their own bodies, was banned in 2022. Discrimination based on “gender identity” has been illegal since 2012, with “transphobia” being recognized as an “aggravating circumstance” in crimes in 2017, and further training for law enforcement to combat “discrimination” against LGBT people in 2023.
There have been a few glimmers of sanity on the horizon. In 2021, an open letter condemning “sex reassignment” for children was signed by more than 50 medical professionals and prominent academics, including doctors, legal experts, educational experts, philosophers, sociologists, psychiatrists, judges, and psychoanalysts, and published on the L’Express website. In 2022 the National Academy of Medicine highlighted the potential health risks of sex change “treatments” for minors, and advised both extreme caution and thorough psychological support before such treatments commence.
Dr. Victor Acharian has the right to appeal his suspension but has not yet decided if he will do so.
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