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 …
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