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A Walgreens Pharmacist Denied Customer's Essential Medication for Contentious Reason

Walgreens has come under fire for this before.

The Street

By Danni Button

June 23, 2023

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 give Rike his prescription because of the employee's "religious beliefs."

At this point in the interaction, Rike began recording on his phone. “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 [expletive] doctor,” Rike says.

The pharmacist offered different options but were an inconvenience to the customer which were basically come back when I’m not around.

As laws affecting access to transgender healthcare continue to bounce around state legislatures, these kinds of instances, of what some consider medical discrimination, aren't the first time Walgreens has come under fire for allowing employees to refuse service. Almost one year ago, many were calling for a Walgreens boycott in response to claims that pharmacy employees were refusing customers' birth control on personal religious grounds.

What about our “religious freedoms”? Don’t we count?

This is going to the Supreme Court where Trump’s hand picked religious bigots will probably overturn all the non-discrimination laws! They are creating two separate systems of laws.

Right now everyone is focus on “LGBTQ+ rights” versus “religious rights” but the Republican white supremacists have high hopes of expanding to discriminating against religion and race. The Republicans sincerely belief that it is their god given rights to discriminate against people who are different from them.

If you don't want to follow a law you just have to say the secret words... "It is against my religion!"