He disclosed he had never helped a patient transition and cited data that testosterone therapy could harm her. …
The doctor then disputed the woman could even become a man with the type of therapy she requested, saying a genetic analysis of the patient’s chromosome would still conclude she is “genetically a woman.”
Ultimately, Brière suggested the patient see another doctor.
We know all of that because the patient was secretly recording the appointment on her phone. She turned over the recording to the Medical College of Quebec, which ruled the doctor’s comments “‘inappropriate and disrespectful.”
The clinic suspended Brière for three months.
[For what? Failing to play along with her delusions? The patient sounds like an activist that was just spoiling for a fight, and the MCQ incentivized it further with this punishment. — Ed]
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