Vraies femmes
Reduxx a couple of months ago:
An LGBTI rights organization in France is calling on the Minister of Equality to intervene in the case of a gynecologist who they are accusing of “transphobia.”
On September 8, SOS Homophobie, which describes itself as a “national association against LGBTIphobia” took to X (formerly Twitter) to condemn a gynecologist for stating he only provided services to females. The comment from Dr. Victor Acharian, who operates in the Pau region, was made in reply to a Google review he received in which a trans-identified male’s partner complained that Acharian refused to provide services to him.
What I wonder is, what the hell does a man expect a gynecologist to do for him? However he “identifies” and whatever he calls himself, what, when it comes right down to it, is he looking for? Is the gynecologist supposed to play a game of let’s pretend? For the sake of “validating” Monsieur?
“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,” Acharian wrote, emphasizing his text with capitalized letters. “Thank you for informing TRANS people to never come for consultation with me.”
(Reduxx made a little mistake in translation there, putting that “have” in “have become women” in brackets. The French is “qu’ils sont devenus femmes” and that’s because devenir is one of the few verbs that use être for the past tense instead of avoir. Ils sont devenus femmes isn’t a mistake, it’s just how it’s done in French.)
In their X post on Acharian, SOS Homophobie wrote: “We denounce the transphobes and discriminatory remarks of gynecologist Victor Acharian in Pau. Transphobia is a reality with serious consequences, particularly in access to health. It affects the entire territory.” The organization also tagged Bérangère Couillard, France’s Minister of Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination, in an apparent effort to have Acharian investigated.
So what does SOS Homophobie want doctors to do? Pretend that men really are women and go on from there? Really? Have they thought this through?
H/t Guest
And what happens when some guy who thinks he’s a woman dies from a malady exclusive to males because the gynecologist wasn’t trained to spot it?
I wonder if furries ever show up at the vet’s for treatment?
Even in English, we can form the past tense of “become” with “to be”. For example, “I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”.
Keep in mind the end of the Barbie movie, the gynecological visit is what proves she’s finally a real woman. Dunno if it’s the stirrups or just entering the exam room but it’s clear that the Obgyn is the ultimate validation…
MartinH, oh so we can, I didn’t think of that. Nice one.
I find “He is risen” irritating for a number of reasons.
(sorry, off topic)
Sure whatever doctors can refuse patients for whatever stupid reason but maybe you folks would like to know that trans women can get cervical cancer so do need to visit gynecologists https://cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/find-cancer-early/screening-in-lgbtq-communities/as-a-trans-woman-do-i-need-to-get-screened-for-cervical-cancer
What it says in the article you link to:
So no, trans women can’t get cervical cancer. The very few trans women who have “bottom surgery to create a vagina (vaginoplasty) and possibly a cervix” have a very small risk of developing cancer in the fake cervix. You could call it fake-cervix cancer I suppose.
I’ve been a bit slow to comment on this, and maybe no one will read a comment on a post several days old.
Here in France we’ve escaped (so far) the worst excesses of the trans cult, and no one, as far as I know, has been called in for a little chat with the police after saying that men are not women. (I’m not a woman, and would probably be laughed at rather than hauled before the courts if I said I was.) However, it’s clear from your article that there are people and organizations who want to move us towards the insanity that has become so evident in the anglophone countries. For the moment they’re very unlikely to succeed, but we need to be very afraid. Who would have thought ten years that the trans cult was going to infect the police in the UK?
Pau is not exactly at the centre of French life, and I suspect that 90% of the population wouldn’t be able to place it on the map. (If you want to visit it, however, you can combine it with a trip to Lourdes to pray at St Bernadette’s grotto.) The only reason it ever gets mentioned on the news is that its mayor is François Bayrou, a well known politician who was once a credible candidate for the presidency.