Gynecologist is removed in France for refusing to attend trans patients

The next day, the patient’s partner left a negative comment on the doctor’s Google page, who replied by saying that he served “real women” and had no “competence” to serve “men, even if they shave and come to my secretary who became women. ” “You have specialized and very competent services to serve men like you. Thank you for informing trans people not to come to consult me,” said the gynecologist.

Associations of struggle against discrimination expressed indignation with the answer, which led the doctor to apologize to the community, “offended by words that I probably should not have said.”

Discrimination

The Regional Council of Medicine, however, sanctioned the doctor, noting that, according to the Public Health Code, “no person may be discriminated against access to prevention or health care,” and considered that their words were not “Simple flaws” but had “a discriminatory character in relation to people in gender transition.”

A criminal investigation was opened after the registration of two complaints by the French associations SOS homophobia and SOS transphobia, and was completed, as reported on Thursday the prosecutor of Pau, which now should “decide on possible criminal consequences” for the doctor .

For Edouard Martial, the patient’s lawyer who was refused, the sanction “corresponds exactly to what we expected, no more, or less. We asked for a sanction, and its importance is irrelevant, as long as it is recognized that he committed a disciplinary offense”, said the lawyer.