Walgreens pharmacist refused to give a trans man his HRT meds

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A transgender man says that a pharmacist at his local Walgreens refused to give him his hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medication because of “religious beliefs.”

Earlier this week, Roscoe Rike took to Reddit to share his infuriating experience, including a video of his interaction with the employee at an Oakland, California Walgreens location in a a now-deleted post.

Rike told local news station KRON4 that he has been going to the same store for nearly a decade, and has picked up his HRT prescription there for the past three years without issue. On the day in question, however, Rike says an unfamiliar pharmacist asked him what his prescription was for.

“I told him I was pretty sure that it wasn’t any of his business,” Rike told KRON.

Rike said that the pharmacist then told him that he couldn’t fill the prescription “due to his religious beliefs.”

Rike then began filming a video which he later posted to Reddit.

“So right now you’re telling me that you’re going to deny me my medication because of your personal religion. You’re not my f**king doctor,” Rike says in the video. “So you think you know better than my doctor, that’s what’s going on?”

The pharmacist responds that he…

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