Lu's Pharmacy Women-Born-Women-Only Policy is Discriminatory & Oppressive
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A serious gripe with Lu's Pharmacy:

Vancouver's new Lu's: A Pharmacy for Women is run by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective who have a "women-born-women-only" policy. This means that they will not provide services to women who were assigned male or intersexed at birth. Apparently baby genitals makes transsexual and intersexed women second-class citizens.

The fact that transsexual and intersexed women have to fight hard and daily to gain control over their own bodies, and to be recognized... (read more)
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Lu's Pharmacy Women-Born-Women-Only Policy is Discriminatory & Oppressive
Category:
Common Interest - Beliefs & Causes
Description:
A serious gripe with Lu's Pharmacy:

Vancouver's new Lu's: A Pharmacy for Women is run by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective who have a "women-born-women-only" policy. This means that they will not provide services to women who were assigned male or intersexed at birth. Apparently baby genitals makes transsexual and intersexed women second-class citizens.

The fact that transsexual and intersexed women have to fight hard and daily to gain control over their own bodies, and to be recognized... (read more)
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Open: All content is public.

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News:
July 8th, 2009: Some group members will be seeking legal advice through the BC Human Rights Coalition (www.bchrcoalition.org) and UBC's LSLAP (www.lslap.bc.ca/main) on Monday and Tuesday (July 13th and 14th). Will be looking into lawsuits and other legal options.

July 9th, 2009: Please write to the media! (Xtra West, 24 Hours, Vancouver Sun, CBC, &c.)

July 9th, 2009: Dexter Triff posted an extremely useful link (below) to a pre-made letter to send to the Vancouver Women's Health Collective. You can also alter it and send to the media. Link: http://bit.ly/jFJwt

July 11th, 2009: Successful protest at a Lu's Pharmacy. Apparently they decided to change their hours without notification. Huh.

July 11th, 2009: We have their attention. Check out the first link on the VWHC website's "In the Media" section: http://www.womenshealthcollective.ca/inmedia.html
The link is the only one on their site (at time of writing) to not display the entire article.

July 12th: Follow this issue on Twitter: @femininjas @expede #luspharmacy #femininjas

July 16th: The Femininjas attempt to foster policy change through dialogue rather than legal action. To this end, we posted an open letter to Lu's and the VWHC to help open the channels of communication: http://tinyurl.com/lla64b

July 22: Femininjas hold their first formal dialogue with the Vancouver Women's Health Collective. Kim Nixon, as well as representatives from Qmmunity, WISH, Battered Women's Support Services, RainCity Housing, PRISM, Women Against Violence Against Women and Dancing to Eagle also present.

July 31st: Qmunity confirms that they are willing to train the staff at Lu's if they feel that they do not have expertise in transgender issues.

September 21st: Second round of talks pushed back to mid-October. This round of talks is slated to be smaller ad with a set agenda.

October 1st: Lu's invited two trans women to their Opening Gala, though no change has yet been made in correcting their policy