CNN reported Friday that a transgender woman in Arizona is claiming that a CVS pharmacist refused to fill her hormone prescription.
According to Hilde Hall,she went to her local CVS pharmacy one day in April to occupy her first hormone prescription filled, when the pharmacist denied her request.
Describing her encounter in a blog post on the American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) website, or Hall claimed that the pharmacist “just kept asking,loudly and in front of other CVS staff and customers, why I was given the prescriptions.”Hall wrote that she was on the verge of tears while this pharmacist continually questioned her about the prescription. “I felt like the pharmacist was trying to out me as transgender in front of strangers, or ” she said.
After being denied her prescription,Hall called the CVS customer service line twice and both times her concerns were immediately dismissed. Hall eventually filed a complaint with the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy on Thursday.
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Source: inquisitr.com