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Lu's Pharmacy May Have Dropped Their Transphobic Policy

Started by Butterfly, January 27, 2010, 04:57:12 PM

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Lu's Pharmacy May Have Dropped Their Transphobic Policy
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
27 January, 2010


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2010/01/lus-pharmacy-may-have-dropped-their.html


Vancouver, BC has had a long, disgusting history of transphobia running rampant in women's organizations as the Kimberly Nixon case dramatically demonstrated.

That toxic legacy continued with the opening by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective of Lu's: A Pharmacy For Women. It has had in place since it opened July 7 a transphobic womyn-born-womyn only service policy.

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Lu's Pharmacy, an update
Questioning Transphobia
27 January, 2010


http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/lus-pharmacy-an-update/


I've been hearing about this from friends in Vancouver for a few weeks now, and it would seem according to a note posted to the Facebook group Lu's Pharmacy Women-Born-Women-Only Policy is Discriminatory & Oppressive, Lu's pharmacy in Vancouver, BC, has quietly ended their no trans woman policy:
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