CVS pharmacist fired after refusing to fill hormone therapy prescription
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https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/07/21/transgender-woman-says-cvs-pharmacist-refused-to-fill-her-hormone-prescription/
PHOENIX (CNN) – Hilde Hall says she went straight from her doctor’s office in April to a CVS pharmacy in her Phoenix suburb, eager to fill her first hormone therapy prescription. The
treatment would spur the physical changes in Hall’s body that would reflect her identity as a transgender woman, she said.
“I was finally going to start seeing my body reflect my gender identity and the woman I’ve always known myself to be,” she said.
Her elation quickly turned to anxiety when the pharmacist refused to fill her prescription and humiliated her in front of other customers, she said. Hall said she called the CVS customer
service line twice. When no one addressed her concerns, she decided to file a complaint with the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy on Thursday.
In a statement to CNN, CVS said the pharmacist violated company policies and is no longer employed.
“We also apologize for not appropriately following up on Ms. Hall’s original complaint to CVS, which was due to an unintentional oversight, ” the statement added. “We pride ourselves
in addressing customer concerns in a timely manner and we are taking steps to prevent this isolated occurrence from happening again.”
CVS has a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Corporate Equality Index, which ranks businesses based on their support for LGBTQ equality.
The pharmacist did not give Hall a clear reason for the refusal, she said in a blog post describing the encounter published on the American Civil Liberties Union’s website.
“He just kept asking, loudly and in front of other CVS staff and customers, why I was given the prescriptions,” she said. “Embarrassed and distressed, I nearly started crying in the
middle of the store,” she wrote. “I didn’t want to answer why I had been prescribed this hormone therapy combination by my doctor. I felt like the pharmacist was trying to out
me as transgender in front of strangers. I just froze and worked on holding back the tears.”
In addition to an apology from CVS, Hall also sought an assurance that they do not condone discrimination against transgender customers — or anyone else for that matter.
“My family supports me, fortunately, and helped me work through the anger and humiliation this experience caused,” she wrote. “But many other transgender people are not as
fortunate as I am. I don’t want to think about what might happen if this pharmacist mistreats a transgender person who does not have a good social support system.”
Good. Transgender people get enough shit, they really don't need to be also getting it from the people that they're supposed to be able to rely on as medical professionals.
“He just kept asking, loudly and in front of other CVS staff and customers, why I was given the prescriptions,” she said. “Embarrassed and distressed, I nearly started crying in the middle of the store,” she wrote. “I didn’t want to answer why I had been prescribed this hormone therapy combination by my doctor. I felt like the pharmacist was trying to out me as transgender in front of strangers."
Yeah, that guy sounds like a genuine piece of shit. Fuck him.
The pharmacist did not give Hall a clear reason for the refusal
Because he's a transphobic piece of shit? Really not that hard to figure out
Good, asshole should have just kept his mouth shut and did his job, it's none of his business why she needs it, just that her doctor prescribed it.
What a piece of shit. I honestly don't get why people go into medicine or public health careers and not give a shit about people.
It's apparently very hard for some people to be decent human beings.
I hope this stupid fuck never works anywhere near the medical field again.
This is the US healthcare system you’re talking about here
Reddit's response to this is just as absolutely braindead as usual when confronted with trans issues.
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Why are people so fucking dumb rrrrrrrrrrrrgh
I want to say "I can't wait until these people go the way of racists" but even racism is being legitimized nowadays.
I've always been a firm believer of even if you don't think being transgender or going though HMT or Reassignment surgery is morally right or right in general, why the fuck do you care? It isn't your body. It isn't your money. It is no ones business other then that persons.
Do your fucking job and dispense the medicine. Simple as that. Being allowed to deny people medication is the most asinine thing I've ever heard. I'm glad he got fired as he has no business being in that job.
People to this day care about skin color, religion or lack thereof, political affiliation, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identification is yet another avenue for people to judge other people.
yeah that is basically just a hate sub
Anyone claiming to object to doing their job on moral grounds has a duty to explain to the affected individual why they're being turned down, and to give them a realistically realizable referral for another pharmacist. Needless to say, failing on this ground and trying to publicly shame them is a gross abuse of their position.
How do intolerant window lickers like this end up getting jobs where one of the main functions is to never discriminate against people.
All other pharmacists should deny service to this guy with the reason that their religion doesn't let them serve assholes.
Do pharmacists not abide by the hypocratic oath?
Hippocratic and they are not doctors, so no AFAIK.
TERFs should be classified as a hate group
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