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 …
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.
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.
You’re risking being harmed by doing so. If you’re hormonally female, you metabolize medications like a cis woman. On medications with different male/female doses, you should be given the female dose, not the name one. And very few pharmacists are aware of this. Putting male as your ASAB is just asking to be improperly dosed.
You know how HRT changes your alcohol tolerance? Do you think that’s the only substance it has this effect on?
The pharmacist has no say in my dosing. My doctor handles that. I could be taking it for a hormonal imbalance for all they know (the pharmacy).
Then why put yourself in a situation that means you face misgendering and other transphobia if it makes no difference to the medical outcome?
Being misgendered by small minded strangers has no affect on me 🤷♀️
Pharmacists do have a say in that kind of thing. They review every medication and dosage. At least they’re supposed to.
Hmm 🤔, might differ by country? I have never once in my life been told by a pharmacist that they don’t like my prescribed dose and need to change it
I thought it was a restaurant and was enraged until I did a quick ecosia search and:
American pharmacy
now it makes sense lol.
haha, I love this - sorry for the US-centrism 🫠
Just wait til you need new guitar strings and go to the Bass Pro Shop
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.
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!
LIE. LIE TO THE CORPOS.
Hack the form!
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.
I’m debating whether to even tell my PCP - I will have to tell someone to get access to hormones, but I would really prefer to not have to disclose my trans status for so many reasons … (one of those being the poor medical assumptions made when they assume I’m “male”).
it really all depends on your location too and whether or not you feel safe. for me, my pcp was who i initially talked about being trans with and she gave me some pointers on places to go (i also get my hormones and see my endo through fenway health which is a dedicated lgbtq clinic) so definitely only do it if you feel safe (erin’s hrt map helped out a lot to find places near me)
I’m definitely in a safer place now, ironically I was completely out to my doctors when I lived in a very unsafe state, but that was because I had initially transitioned then and needed access to care. I’m not really out to anyone in this new city, except to the other trans people at a trans support group.
I am not worried about safety as much as all the problems that come with disclosing trans status, such as suddenly not being seen as your gender (even when you were passing before), and all the ignorance that comes with being trans.
There’s always DIY.
that’s true, but less ideal in some ways … especially I haven’t figured out DIY progesterone - I like having access to safe, regulated HRT but I see DIY as a viable alternative in a worst case scenario. I’m not sure I would DIY just because I’m uncomfortable being out to my doctor 🤔
what are the options on the drop down menu? I refuse to supply any demographic information under all circumstances.
Just Male and Female.
can confirm, it was just male and female
ok good to know never setting foot in walgreens ever.
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 refuse when there is an option to, but in this case you had to make a choice between male and female, it was a required field to schedule a vaccine.
It sounds like a medical records thing and you should use whatever gender is listed on your medical records, which should probably match your social security records.
Some people only change state records so they have to respond differently depending on who’s asking. I think in this case its related to federal records.
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.
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
Same thing happened to my buddy Robert’); DROP TABLE Gender;–
lie :3
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.
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?
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
Nah wouldn’t they ask previous legal names if that was the case?
Technically I wasn’t named until like 2 days after my birth, so my name at birth was “”
I always just say my AGAB is female. My pharmacy don’t need to know and it’s not illegal.
