Hi, I have changed my name and gender on all my stuff. I recently became aware that my pharmacy has me listed as male. Anyone dealt with whether or not to try to change this. I don't know if changing this would affect approval of any meds. Any thoughts?

I don't have an answer, but I think your insurance company would be the one who gives the approval, as long as your doc prescribes it, it is a matter whether it is on their formula or not.

But I have a question that relates to your statement.  At what time would one make the decission to start with gender switching like on credit cards, bank accounts, etc., and other non governmental entities? 

What's your insurance card say?  Mostly likely needs to match that. 

If they covered your estrogen when everything still said M, probably wont  have  any issues

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I had this exact same problem. I had the pharmacy change it to "F" and then my insurance no longer worked, had to change it back. Whole thing was embarrassing. Finally got it fixed by contacting my insurance company

Moni,
  I use the VA except when the VA is too slow and I need help now, then I have to pay cash. It is probably not the same as using insurance but I had to get the doctor that sent them the script to change it before the pharmacy did. I don't know why it would effect the approval of meds but I can see where you would be concerned.
  It seems like it never ends, that there is always one more place that has me listed with my old name or that pesky "M". Grr!

Take care babes.

Dietlind,
  Going full time is probably a good cutoff point. My legal name change took forever with all the stuff I had to do and then waiting for a court date, it was almost a year and a half after going full time. I don't think that you have to go through all of that for some things though, like credit cards. Really, after male fail it becomes very inconvenient. Yes I can see that he is a member but he is not with you. You will need to apply for a one time visitor's pass. I can't count how many times I had a problem with it, even getting a drink with dinner and I was forty six when I got my name changed. The more you present female or the less you are able to present as male, the more important it becomes. The vacant look that people have when you hand them a card or id is priceless the first few times. Then the slightly annoyed look when you say, Yeah, that is me. is even better. It is like a knife in the chest when you have to tell them in front of whatever strangers may be there, Look, I am transgender okay. though. I have even had to give a lady my court approval for legal name change, she calls over her supervisor who looks at it and asks, So you are his legal guardian? I don't understand. Anyway, if you wait too long some issues are sure to come up.

Ja, fur immer.

When I went to pick up my testosterone, my name and gender marker were already legally changed.  I ended up having to call the insurance company while I was there, explain to the person on the phone that I was transgender and needed my insurance changed over to read "male" so they would pay for my 'script. 

It took a little bit of waiting while it went through, so I wandered around the pharmacy for a while.  After a while, the pharmacy filled my 'script and let me know that everything had gone through, so I paid my co-pay (which was WAY cheaper than I expected!) and left.

I don't know if it matters, but I'm on disability here in the US.  YMMV.

Ryuichi

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Neither my Medicare Card, nor the additional insurance or the dental insurance card have any gender identifier.  The only identifier is my name.  The same applies to my credit cards.  I assume that most people in the US would not really know if it is a male or a female name.  It would just be nice, if this dead name would match my selected name.
One of my cards has my family name as my given name, and my given name in the place of the family name, and nobody really recognizes it. 
That is the nice thing of not being born in this country and having unusual names.  It is annoying when I have to spell my name all the time, and get mispronunciations of it, which are so bad that I sometimes don't even know that they are talking about me!

Anyway, I feel that my name is not a real big public gender identifier, it's just for me to have a female one.

Speaking from retail pharmacy experience,   insurance cards usually don't list gender but their claims processors will have it from the insurance company so it usually will need to match their records irregardless of what drug its for.  Since most plans use ID numbers only and names aren't submitted it usually doesn't matter what name is used.

Don't know if credit cards would have gender anywhere except maybe on the initial application.  I think you just need to update gender with Social Security Administration when you change your name.  I was full time for about 6 months before my name change was legal which is when I fixed all the credit cards. Thought about having them issue a new card with  initials rather than  first name.  You can usually have another card issued to an authorized user in whatever name you tell them.

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Quote from: IAmM on November 06, 2018, 01:11:12 AM
Moni,
  I use the VA except when the VA is too slow and I need help now, then I have to pay cash. It is probably not the same as using insurance but I had to get the doctor that sent them the script to change it before the pharmacy did. I don't know why it would effect the approval of meds but I can see where you would be concerned.
  It seems like it never ends, that there is always one more place that has me listed with my old name or that pesky "M". Grr!

Take care babes.

M,

Thank you Girl, you are right! Just when ya think it is safe to go in the water another shark with a big 'M' comes along and wants to bite your leg off. lol I am gonna get my passport done soon, even if I never need it.

So, I asked at the pharmacy today, and they said they go by the insurance company. I must call my insurance and have it changed. KathB was right! I'll ask if there are any consequences to having it changed. I wonder if they will be resistant to changing it. You know, maybe there is different pricing based on chromosomal gender or some such garbage.

Dietlind,
   For me, the time to change my ID was when I presented female at least half the time. It takes  time to get it all done. I had a partner who would pay when going out,  so I didn't have to use my ID much, so that helped. I always felt uncomfortable with people thinking I was a cross dresser instead of a transsexual, so it was rather important I get the papers right.

Tonya,
   You are right, no gender listed on many ID's. Diver's license and SS card are two I can think of. I was highly embarrassed when I had a colonoscopy and before I went to sleep, right there on the screen for everyone to see was Male under my name. The doctor apologized and called me later saying that company wide this would be corrected so it would happen to no one else. I was so pleased.

Guess I had it lucky in the insurance  respect.  I changed name and gender on our HR website at work. and that rippled out to insurance, payroll etc  .  Never had to prove anything either. My chart at my doctor now says I'm overdue for mammogram and cervical exam. 

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