Lu's Pharmacy, part of Vancouver Women's Health Collective holds a women-born-women policy. This means that you must have been "born a woman" to enter.
According to their policy, transsexual women are not allowed in their women-serving pharmacy. Nor are intersexed women (women born with "ambiguous genitalia) who were subject to involuntary and crude "corrective" surgeries.)
This practice perpetuates transphobia & by turning a transwoman away shows her another indignity & prejudice from a place that could be a safe place to have her prescription needs met.
Lu's Pharmacy, part of Vancouver Women's Health Collective holds a women-born-women policy. This means that you must have been "born a woman" to enter.
According to their policy, transsexual women are not allowed in their women-serving pharmacy. Nor are intersexed women (women born with "ambiguous genitalia) who were subject to involuntary and crude "corrective" surgeries.)
This practice perpetuates transphobia & by turning a transwoman away shows her another indignity & prejudice from a place that could be a safe place to have her prescription needs met.
Please end your discriminatory practice of turning away transwomen from your pharmacy. Your policy discriminatory policy is yet another roadblock in the path of equality & social justice.
We signed the "End transgender discrimination at Lu's Pharmacy" petition!
# 29:
5:23 pm PST, Nov 20,Tania Schindler, Canada
Gotta love human rights being put below the comfort of the privileged... This takes me back to the days of Rosa Parks.
# 28:
1:02 pm PST, Nov 12,Jennifer Spires, Ohio
This is seriously screwed up. Do you see the logic of a place that calls itself a Woman's Health Collective to not include transwomen?
# 27:
7:35 am PDT, Oct 19,Miss Francis Ryan, Canada
There should be a civics way to attack any municipal licence of buisness per proffesional's graduating school's curicula where bigotry and provincial or fedral standard directs service. Is there ethics? Seems there is no creadence. Transphobia hurts everyone where bigotry is invissable...lots might never know they were hated getting expected deceptive custom. Customers' drug addiction can be harmful to pharmacies. Hate can't be good for addiction-guilt. Guilt is most useless emotion. Transgenderd I know, all addicted, get medication free from their doctor- LAAM before, Bupenorphine, Suboxone, (no!Methadone), multiple strong mu-agonists may be prescribed for Heroin; serratonin- adrenalin- dopamine- reuptake inhibiters for cocain addiction; some are Dr orderd not to enter any pharmacy. BillC-389 An Act to ammend Canadian Human Rights Act & Criminal Code by Bill Siksay would have directed legislative interest ballancing away from phobia of GID-deffiance or gender-dysphoria,.. perhaps in future parliament. Dalhousi School of Medicine Halifax was placed on Accidemic Probation Oct/09 until Sept 2010 due to 17 curricullar defficiancies, aegis was Transsexual of Sep 22/09 advice; Students will not graduate into Md if quality of teaching is is not raised to international standards. Wonder, if 600 mg Spironolactone po with no problems in Vancouver health Authority is Brite-hoax with neo-enuresis being cheaper than 150 mg Cyproterone po? 2 to 4 L water po yealding pale urine to protect against calculi, don't drink milk! If urine looks brite orange, stop! Wear diaper 24/7; if you don't void immediatly with pee-urge , nephridia K goes up in blood and won't drop with subsequent urination because it can't proceed to bladder, notice K raising arythmia risk. Some transgenderd people behave K badly and their drug addiction harbourd by Md harms public intrest. Where is customer care at buisnesses? Why is Trust placed there? Why would municipal mind and wholesaler tollerate exclusion. Manufacturer is responsable for quality of drug handling and transfer as far as patients' hand. Never having used streat-drugs I was sent to Village (Capital Health) drug rehab Bairs Rd Halifax( where transgenderd go) to see sociologist instead of Woman's health Centre where Rx could have been transsexual-written on Quinpool rd... so, away-in-county my family Dr wrote my Rx. I may have breast implants by christmas. My 1983 diagnosis was intense transsexualism. I wish transgenderd well in not making trouble for transsexuals. Is there a reason, transgenderd complain to lesbians of being put at end of World Out Games Parrade as per Copenhagen? MP Bill Siksay NDP website must have noticed; bombs having injured American Georgia sprinter thrown by skin-head charged with hate crime. Fireworks=class6explosives, within container= boomb, many were thrown at World Out Games parade spectators were stone faced; Power=container burst pressure. Atheleats had been lied too about Copenhagen safe lifestyles' acceptance. World court subverts skinhead hatecrime publication. Only one skinhead was charged? My best friend Slow-pitch-silver-medalist was frightend, angerd ... and glad for me not beeing there. I Happy Pride Halifax walked Flag instead in Halifax Nova Scotia; I'm blond layerd lingerie spagetti-strap top& brown gloves; enthusiastic 70,000 lined streats see YouTube, I'm with caption top of screan. By invitation to treat anyone can enter premis goodnaturedly. Some 200 Halifax DSM5-2012-defiant-transgender have moved me allong with my sex change wich began in 1962 Ottawa. Asside from police intermedalling in my Truro & Halifax affairs by sending nuisance question files, I have had no problems, buisness does't like to be tamperrd with, may aquiess. HARM reduction requires human rights enforcement. All customers are between doses. Educational, Municiple, Provincial, Parliamentary lack of willpowers costs' big-time. How many customers denied, could initially have psychiatric provisional assesment of, "not having lived". For transgenderd in Halifax, affew minutes with psychologist can result in nullification. Don Quioti defines civil death as 10 years; still is. Perhaps more facial feminisation is in order, but no one should be bullied into surgery... transgenderd are! if they are, not yet charged in Nova Scotia, by time of doctoring, care is on, "case by case basis". 9 men are sellected each Sept for nullification who can best consume services out of every 100s in drug rehab. So is problem particular? 3rd-sex descrimination within a Gym was resolved in TG favour, where there was civilization, red about it in Coast news Halifax paper, good read. My primary identiiication is male my salutation is Miss---gender with assessed female psychology vibe. I think Ms propagandised 3rd-sex, legitamises bad surgery I insist on Miss and tell my psychologists how bigotted they are to ignore DSM3-Ontario diagnosis 1983/4/5 and 1986 of my intense transsexualism. I don't let psychologist letter proceed unless I have been seen for 6 hours or 1 hour longer than preceeding ignorant report. March/09 I noticed friend's retna color change from Hazel to Cerullian Blue & atributed color to LAAM. Asked everyone in drug-rehab to watch each others eyes. Revia is no longer in production, My former psychologist's 10 page report stated that I had dillusion of friend getting sick on lamb meat, wich I have never defamed. My transgenderd drug addicted friends are, told what to do by RxDr,.... forbidden to participate in petitions, you have 300+moral support. Their complaints concerning bad surgery IGNORED by Halifax Police Operations whose police contables complaind to me about bigot-policy. Police needed to know what my reaction would be if I was called ,"Sir" by Scotia Bank teller in Bedford and subsequently per Sep 22/09, shorted $100.00 Oct7/09 For investigation etc Only one high ranking opperations bigot is effective anywhere. Bigotry like Heroin run like viruses through communities. Treatment with respected dignity would go right way. Many transgenderd have been financially dissenfranchised, denied services. Hugs Kisses. Don't accept transwoman stigma ITS WOMAN gender, don't surgically accept anything less than transsexual. Reports should not say transwoman; word is not in DSM4 and neither is transsexual.
# 26:
11:36 pm PDT, Oct 14,Carole Hagen, Oregon
# 25:
9:11 am PDT, Sep 6,ALPHA NO POST PLS-VACATION, Germany
# 24:
2:22 am PDT, Sep 4,PAULINE RANKIN, Canada
# 23:
11:52 pm PDT, Aug 28,Name not displayed, Belgium
# 22:
7:00 am PDT, Aug 26,Christine Mullen, Washington
# 21:
5:07 pm PDT, Aug 22,Jennifer Gardner, Florida
# 20:
2:24 pm PDT, Aug 22,Name not displayed, Finland
# 19:
12:24 am PDT, Aug 21,Tatiana Costa, Brazil
# 18:
10:13 am PDT, Aug 19,Peder Beckman, California
# 17:
7:44 am PDT, Aug 18,Alison Brown, Canada
Feminism must be for all women. Please take advantage of the resources in the community that are so generously offering to help you change. I want to celebrate this pharmacy (I'm a feminist) but this oppressive policy has made me feel shameful and I'm vocally opposed.
# 16:
4:35 pm PDT, Aug 17,Name not displayed, Oregon
# 15:
3:27 pm PDT, Aug 17,GLENN BROWN, Nebraska
# 14:
8:28 am PDT, Aug 17,Kelly Pilon, Canada
I take it Lu is Chinese? Then as both an immigrant and a Canadian citizen, remember this is Canada. Our great country was built on multiculturisim. We celebrate diversity. We do not discriminate against it. To be transgendered is to be absolutely fearless in a frightening world. Trangendered people have more courage and conviction then anyone on the face if this earth. Imagine if you, Mr. Lu had to live as the opposite gender for at least 3 years and without benefit of hormones or plastic surgery, and to convincingly pull it off. That takes guts! Could you do it? You can't be a sissy if you want to change your sex. They deserve respect and to be treated with dignity. Enough with the discrimination. Remember - you never know anyone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Get used to pumps, Mr. Lu.
# 13:
4:18 am PDT, Aug 17,Name not displayed, Greece
# 12:
2:24 am PDT, Aug 17,Sigrid De Ruyck, Canada
# 11:
6:36 pm PDT, Aug 16,Ray Lovelace, New Mexico
This is so like classic displacement: Dad has a rough day at work, comes home, yells at his wife, who then slaps the kid, who kicks the dog. I appreciate the many injustices perpetrated on women for far too long, but that shouldn't justify perpetrating injustice on those of like mind, if variously differing body.
# 10:
8:48 am PDT, Aug 15,Celene Chen, Massachusetts
# 9:
7:57 am PDT, Aug 15,David N Moore, Connecticut
# 8:
7:18 am PDT, Aug 15,Patricia Cannell, Canada
# 7:
5:27 am PDT, Aug 15,Sherie Hayden, Canada
# 6:
2:41 am PDT, Aug 15,Steve Klein, Virginia
# 5:
2:02 am PDT, Aug 15,Isak Sandberg, Sweden
# 4:
10:46 pm PDT, Aug 14,Pam Boland, Georgia
# 3:
6:24 pm PDT, Aug 14,Name not displayed, Arizona
Being born in the wrong body is something you can't help. If this happened to you, would you want other people to treat you this way?
