this is along with name, race and other demographic information
They don't have a gender field, and it really feels like they are just reducing sex and gender down to "you are what you were assigned at birth", and then hiding behind amorphous medical "reasons" as justification ....
I always just say my AGAB is female. My pharmacy don't need to know and it's not illegal.
I thought it was a restaurant and was enraged until I did a quick ecosia search and:
American pharmacy
now it makes sense lol.
Just wait til you need new guitar strings and go to the Bass Pro Shop
haha, I love this - sorry for the US-centrism ðŸ«
Had something similar happen when I made a new bank account. They asked me for my name (obviously) and my name at birth...
It's probably just a standard workflow for them to prevent easier money laundering but they didn't need any proof either...? It just felt very very strange
Technically I wasn't named until like 2 days after my birth, so my name at birth was ""
Nah wouldn't they ask previous legal names if that was the case?
@SquishedFly @dandelion
Do you think that could be their way of asking for a maiden name, while trying to be progressive?
Walgreen's is the goody-two-shoes couch fucking Vance of the pharmacy world in my experience, so this totally tracks.
Last year when I went in to get my covid vaccine, they asked a ton of questions and then turned me away because "technically I said yes" when they asked if I'd been in contact with anybody in the past 14 days who tested positive for covid. I even explained that it was outdoors and from a distance after my neighbor briefly stopped their car to say hello and then tested positive a few days later.
I literally drove down the street to Walmart right after and got the vaccine. They only asked me about my insurance info and which arm I wanted the shot in.
What was the purpose of all those questions and why was it necessary to begin with?
LIE. LIE TO THE CORPOS.
Hack the form!
Any chance this is a client side web form which could be modified to allow an additional choice of "None of your business, Walgreens" injected into the form?
Just change it to [object Object]
Yes! This is the way!
Yikes. I would take my business elsewhere for sure. I don't use Walgreens currently, personally. My current pharmacy seems pretty alright, they changed my GF's name on her pill bottles when we transferred the prescription, no problem.
lie :3
The hiding behind vague medical reasons is infuriating. When I went through this form, I was thinking "don't lie to me and I won't have to lie to you."
right!? It definitely feels like they don't have any right to ask this given the context, and the way they are applying it feels like it's denying trans identity (as well as not accounting for the existence of intersex folks, some of whom are neither male nor female).
If you were intentionally trying to design the page in a way to deny trans people their identity, I don't know what you would do differently from this.
A binary 'Sex' field could at least have the cover of "Sorry, the code is 30 years old and we don't know how to change this field in the database without breaking things." Labeling the field as Sex Assigned at Birth means they considered trans people and considered them worth hurting.
Edit: I do think asking for sex is a CDC thing. But only asking that means you can be misgendered at the pharmacy and also ignores that hormones have a major role in your health. A doctor or pharmacist going off your birth certificate to treat you is a bad doctor/pharmacist.
Just put your hormonal sex. That is the most accurate sex you can use for any pharmacology purpose. If you're hormonally female, you metabolize medications like any other woman, regardless of your genetics. Systems like this are built by ignorant fools who think that someone's assigned sex at birth maps directly to their medical needs. They think being trans is just something that involves changing clothes or surgery. When in reality HRT rewires your body at the cellular level.
what are the options on the drop down menu? I refuse to supply any demographic information under all circumstances.
I have started picking the "not saying" option where I can now too, for everything. If loads of people do, it doesn't stand out as different when someone does.
Plus at work they recently started asking about stuff like autism, my real answer is not diagnosed but no one would be surprised. So confirming yes or no feels kinda dishonest too.
i just put f because that's what i am; only my pcp knows my saab and that's only because i know and trust her.
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