Posted on 06/26/2023 1:13:56 PM PDT by Morgana
A transgender man is speaking out about his recent, recorded visit to a local Walgreens - during which he was denied a prescribed hormone treatment by one of the chain's pharmacists because it 'went against his religion.'
Laid bare in a since-deleted post to Reddit Tuesday that included video of the encounter, the incident involves 30-year-old Roscoe Rike of Oakland, as well as an unnamed pharmacist at the aforementioned store on Telegraph Avenue.
Currently transitioning from female to male, Rike says he has been a customer at the Walgreens for years - picking up his HRT medication, short for 'hormone replacement therapy,' to move along the process.
However, that all changed this past Monday when he was denied that medication by the lone pharmacist on staff, on the basis that giving him the hormone pills would come in direct violation of his religious beliefs.
A longheld store policy allows team members to take such action - forgoing responsibilities that may contradict their 'religious and moral beliefs' by pawning them over to another, more-inclined worker on duty.
This did not stop Rike, however, from launching on an expletive-laden rant toward the worker Monday, who aside from a manager and pharmacy technician, apparently was alone and thus did not transfer the customer to another staffer.
This angered Rike to no end, who quickly whipped out his phone to record the ensuing encounter.
'So right now you're telling me that you're going to deny me my medication because of your personal religion,' Rike is heard telling the man in the footage, which has since been pulled but not before going viral.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They were probably just fine with pharmacists withholding Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine for the secular religious reasons i.e. the state healthcare fascists.
Billions of very needy people in the world, and where is our nation’s priorities?
“The staggering costs of being transgender in the US, where even patients with health insurance can face six-figure bills”
https://www.businessinsider.com/transgender-medical-care-surgery-expensive-2019-6
“Do your job or find another. Why is this given the time of day?”
Pharmacists have a profession, not a job.
Roscoe is just a woman pretending to be a man.
If the guy wants to start his own pharmacy, I’d be all for him turning away customers for whatever reason he wants. Religion, Politics or mere whim.
Go to work for a company, you do whatever the corporate rules say or whatever the boss says... Or quit.
Don’t take a job that conflicts with your religious beliefs. He’s probably happy to stick that vaxx needle in your arm. I wonder how God feels about that?
I for one am done believing the lies of the lefties!
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Read the damn article!
Walgreen’s allows their employee’s the choice!
A real Christian will always put God first!
“( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)”
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You have the best, most correct, tagline on FR.
Another one that doesn’t bother reading before shooting from the lip!🥱
Walgreen’s allows these choices.
Unless you can show that the same pharmacist is injecting or not injecting the vaxes .. you’re just out to look for a distraction which tells me that you would be more comfortable at the DU!🥴
I just saw a “pride” display in our local store. With kid clothing in it.
Sounds like the chick had a case of roid rage.
EC
" Read the damn article!
A real Christian will always put God first!
Hypocrite much??
<>Roscoe is just a woman pretending to be a man<>
From the photo, it may have been a logical decision. /s
From the article:
<>he was denied that medication by the lone pharmacist on staff,<>
Pharmacists are doctors.
Oh.
How does the pharmacist know that the use of the medication violates his beliefs?
He sees a prescription for testosterone cypionate, with a woman’s name as the patient, and decides not to fill it? That’s very presumptuous. As far as I’m concerned, this decision is entirely between the adult patient (who has moral agency to make decisions regarding his/her health) and the physician.
The pharmacist should verify strength, formulation, dosage, and number of doses, check the packaged medications for damage or spoilage, and fill the prescription as ordered by the doctor.
lots of Walgreens in Florida still sell cigarettes.
The Walgreens I’ve been going to for the last year just told me they won’t fill my pain med in the future at that location because my address is just across the county line. I’ve use Walgreens in various Florida cities for the last 8 years as it’s my insurance’s preferred provider. The pharmacist said it was CORPORATE SETTING THE NEW RULES and not the local pharmacist. There was a time when a doctors prescription was good anywhere in the state. Now Walgreens, and I understand Walmart are practicing medicine.
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