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A transgender man is speaking out about his recent, recorded visit to a local Walgreens - during which she was denied a prescribed hormone treatment by one of the chain's pharmacists because it 'went against his religion.'
Laid bare in a since-deleted post to Reddit Tuesday that included video of the encounter, the incident involves 30-year-old Roscoe Rike of Oakland, as well as an unnamed pharmacist at the aforementioned store on Telegraph Avenue.
Currently transitioning from female to male, Rike says he has been a customer at Walgreens for years - picking up her HRT medication,