Graz university "punishes"

No gender star: doctor loses his teaching practice

The medical university in Graz attaches great importance to gender asterisks (tear-out) - and therefore removes this doctor from the teaching practice list.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Med Uni Graz, zVg)

A bizarre conflict: Graz Medical University takes away the teaching practice of a Styrian country doctor because he takes offense at gender-neutral language. Instead of a debate, there was a pink slip! The doctor defends himself in an interview with "Krone".

He is a popular GP in the small Upper Styrian community of Turnau, is happily married and has three daughters. Eight of his nine employees in the rural medical practice, where he has also trained medical students to date, are female. "As someone who is indirectly affected, I am therefore very familiar with structural gender-related injustices," says the doctor, who does not want to be (mis)understood as a "gender opponent".