KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In April, Kenny Caldwell walked into a Costco pharmacy in Kansas City to pick up their monthly medication. They walked out empty-handed.
“The pharmacist was like, well, we’re not willing to take that risk. You’ll have to go somewhere else,” they recalled. “It just felt (like) it was very much a trans thing. … I definitely felt like it was against me, specifically.”
Caldwell is a nonbinary person who takes testosterone as part of their gender-affirming health care. But their pharmacist refused to give them the prescription they normally pick up every month, citing the state’s restrictions on dispensing controlled substances.
