A Gynecologist from Pau was forbidden to exercise for a month for refusing to take care of a transgender patient, we learned this Thursday, January 30 of the doctors’ order, confirming information from the Republic of the Pyrenees.
The decision, taken in the first instance by the Disciplinary Chamber of the Regional Order of Physicians of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, on January 16, acts a fine of six months of prohibition of exercise, of which five months suspended, which will enter into force the March 1 to 31. The doctor can still appeal this decision.
“Words that probably shouldn’t have done”
In August 2023, this patient, participated in a gender transition route for three years, appeared in the Palois gynecologist cabinet after making an online appointment, for chest pain. Then he refuses to take care of her.
The next day, his partner leaves a negative comment on the page of the Google doctor, who replied that he dealt with “real women”, who has no “skills” to take care of men “even if the beard is shaved and that they Come and tell my secretary that they have become women. ” Thank you for the transformed traffic for ever coming to consult me, “said the gynecologist.
The associations to combat discrimination are outraged in the answer, pressing the doctor to apologize to the community “injured by comments that probably should not have done.”
A “discriminatory character”
However, the regional order of doctors sanctioned the doctor, remembering that, according to the Public Health Code, “no person can be discriminated against in access to prevention or care”, and estimated that his words did not constitute a “simple” awkwardness, “but presented” a discriminatory nature with respect to people in gender transition. “
Criminal investigation was opened after the presentation of two complaints by the Homophobia SOS and SOS Transobia associations is over, the Pau prosecutor’s office said Thursday, which must now “govern on any criminal consequence to give it.”
For Edouard Martial, lawyer of the rejected patient, the sanction “corresponds exactly to what we expected, no more or less.” “We have declared a sanction and its importance does not care while we say that he has committed a disciplinary failure,” said the lawyer.
Source: BFM TV
