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 ....
Is Walgreens the only available pharmacy?
Ours closed down because they refused to treat customers like humans and locked everything, so you always need an employee to get anything.
There's a local pharmacy that I get my prescriptions from.
I'm guessing they'll assume your genitalia match your ASAB and shove even more annoying ads into your face. Either that or leak it to the Federal Bureau for Conversion Therapy so that they can pay you a nice visit. You never know with capitalism in decline.
I was once turned away for a scheduled covid vaccine at a Rite Aid that had been bought out by Walgreens because one of the pharmacy assistants couldn't figure out how to put my gender into the system.
this is the dumbest shit I've ever heard
I just put male and was done with it. They do make a point to call me "sir" or "gentleman" but IDGAF just gimme my estrogens and let me be on my way
I'm not sure putting male is the right answer for trans women ... it's one thing to have a conversation with a doctor when you need access to gender-affirming care, it's another when filling out demographic information when scheduling a vaccine outside your normal provider.
Walgreens? A pharmacy? Why would a company that provides healthcare services want to know your sex assigned at birth?!?
well?
yikes, any updates? I wanna see how it turns out.
what update are you expecting?
it will never be relevant, it's just demographic information they were collecting because I was scheduling a flu shot ...
EDIT: also potentially relevant to the context: people don't seem to be able to tell I'm trans (to my surprise), so it's not like I'll show up as a visibly trans person or anything, I've mostly just told medical people I was born without a uterus when they ask for my last period or if I'm pregnant.
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