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.
He offered to, but the person ran off and raised a stink online instead of following the rational recommendation. Ahhhh, the 2020s. Good ol’ keyboard warriors and their cancel culture.
The person ran off and raised a stink online because the doctor was a being a fucking dick. If he just politely refused and referred them to another doctor, there would be no story.
“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.
There is never an excuse to be transphobic. The story doesn’t get better for him if she was belligerent first. Let’s keep in mind how upsetting this situation is for her, and then instead of de-escalating he makes it worse.
I disagree. That’s a much better story for him. Not even sure if he’s transphobic or just not trained in PC language. If he meant “I only treat biological women”, he’d be correct.
She was upset and kind of having a bad fucking day, and then instead of de-escalating he makes it worse.
And maybe he was also having a bad day, probably because of her. Why is this on him in the first place?
Calling a trans woman a man is transphobic, and it’s clearly not a matter of training because he knew not to do that before she was rude. He was angry at her for being annoying and wanted to hurt her.
Why is this on him in the first place?
He’s supposed to be the professional.
There’s never an excuse to be transphobic. Being rude is a mistake. That wasn’t a mistake.
But walking into an Doctors office and insulting staff is excusable? He also apologised for it. Seems just like people are very quick to gloss over anything she did.
He did refer them.
He offered to, but the person ran off and raised a stink online instead of following the rational recommendation. Ahhhh, the 2020s. Good ol’ keyboard warriors and their cancel culture.
The person ran off and raised a stink online because the doctor was a being a fucking dick. If he just politely refused and referred them to another doctor, there would be no story.
But that’s literally what happened. Her response to that was calling the doctor a transphobe and insulting his staff. She was being a dick first.
Did you even bother to read the article?
I did read the article. Calling her a man is being a dick. Asking for services while being trans is not being a dick.
There is no indication in the article that he called her a man before she flew of the handle.
He literally told her “i only treat women.”
Ok, so you didn’t read the article.
Yes, he wrote that. As a response to the google review her boyfriend left after the encounter.
There’s the article…
There is never an excuse to be transphobic. The story doesn’t get better for him if she was belligerent first. Let’s keep in mind how upsetting this situation is for her, and then instead of de-escalating he makes it worse.
I disagree. That’s a much better story for him. Not even sure if he’s transphobic or just not trained in PC language. If he meant “I only treat biological women”, he’d be correct.
And maybe he was also having a bad day, probably because of her. Why is this on him in the first place?
Calling a trans woman a man is transphobic, and it’s clearly not a matter of training because he knew not to do that before she was rude. He was angry at her for being annoying and wanted to hurt her.
He’s supposed to be the professional.
There’s never an excuse to be transphobic. Being rude is a mistake. That wasn’t a mistake.
But walking into an Doctors office and insulting staff is excusable? He also apologised for it. Seems just like people are very quick to gloss over anything she did.
They were both being assholes.
Transphobia isn’t just annoying. He wasn’t just rude to her. His behavior and words hurt all trans women.
If he just called her a dumb asshole I wouldn’t even be mad. He could insult her without insulting all trans women.