A Walgreens Pharmacist Denied Customer’s Essential Medication for Contentious Reason
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By Danni Button Oakland, California resident Roscoe Rike has been picking up his prescriptions from the Walgreens on Telegraph Avenue for the last three years — including his HRT medication, short for “hormone replacement therapy,” usually taken by transgender men. So when a pharmacist he didn’t recognize asked him what the medication was for, he said, in a now-deleted Reddit post, a red flag went up in his mind. “I told him I was pretty sure that it wasn’t any of his business,” Rike relayed to the local news network KRON. He says that the pharmacist responded, saying he would be unable to gi…
