the sexist and pornographic frescoes banned by the government, after the controversy in Toulouse in 2021
The frescoes of a pornographic or sexist nature in the guard rooms will have to be removed from the CHUs, according to a ministerial instruction, in which the Toulouse controversy is cited.
Hospitals, which house frescoes of a pornographic or sexist nature in the guard rooms, go have to remove themFr “consultation” with the interns, according to a ministerial instructionwhere the Toulouse controversy in 2021 is cited as an example.
That national will is brought within the framework of the “zero tolerance policy“against the”moral or sexual violence against health students“, Underlines this document from the Directorate General for the Provision of Care (DGOS).
The Ministry of Health asks the hospitals concerned to “organizer the removal of all the character frescoes pornographic and sexist in a schedule that allows for consultation” with the representatives of the interns. In case of disagreement persistent, regional health agencies could »impose“the disappearance of these paintings.
This note, dated January 17, 2023 and revealed by the Hospimédia information site, recalls the “litigation closed or in progress“who have targeted some of these frescoes in recent years.
This document highlights above all the example of the legal decision of the administrative court of Toulouse. Referred to in summary proceedings, he ordered on December 7, 2021 on withdraw murals with pornographic characters.
“A pornographic representation featuring public officials displayed in the premises of the public service portrays an attack on the human dignity of these people“, had specified the judge of the summary procedures.
It was an action led by two feminist associations – Dare the feminist 31 and the Jeudi 11-2 collective – with the Sud Santé Sociaux union in Haute-Garonne. In October, they had revealed the installation of a new fresco of a sexual nature in the dining room of the CHU de Purpan boarding school.
Without answer from theMedical residency to withdraw it, despite the request of the management of Purpan University Hospital to do so “at once“, them three protest groups had taken legal action in the name of the “dignity of women“.
Following the court decision, the Toulouse University Hospital immediately announced in a press release that “these tables are the subject of an immediate stall this day, December 8, 2021, by the association of interns, in accordance with the order issued. The management of the Toulouse university hospital confirmed to us that this fresco had indeed been removed.
In 2015, a fresco in Clermont-Ferrand mimicking a gang rape between superheroes should have a controversybefore’be erased.
Other institutions then had followed the Toulouse movement Fr retreat we to modify these murals, “sometimes in a climate of opposition from interns“, specifies the ministerial note.
A part of “rifles” (medical students) are still attached to ribald representations relevant to a tradition whose the origin and meaning are described in several works. And he subsist some a sexual character in some establishments.