Honestly not what I’d expect interacting with businesses as a customer. It feels to me like there are a lot of places where there should be some sort of training or guidance on interacting with trans customers and there just isn’t.

Pharmacies especially seem to do a pretty terrible job with literally just the most basic accommodations. I couldn’t get a flu shot that I’d scheduled recently literally because the pharmacy tech was so uncomfortable about talking to me that it took like 20 minutes for them to whisper to their coworker about me and put a and b together rather than just asking me. Even then, she couldn’t figure out how to put me down as female to match the consent form I’d signed at home and they literally sent me away.

Half the time I call any call center i get repeatedly misge dered, no matter how politely or insistently I correct them.

If anything it seems like bigger businesses are worse about it.

I just want to gloat about my dispensary in here. We’re definitely where the cool queers get their weed. I’ve never been treated with anything but love and respect. The GM and AM both have significant personal connections to trans people in their lives. (The AM is my best friend, and I’ve seen her tense up at the notion that a random woman looked enough like her to be her sister, because she doesn’t have a sister, and she will fight about it <3) The weekend closing manager is me. We are the only dispensary in town with the “Transgender safe space” tag on Google. (There are several with the LGBTQ friendly tag.) It’s just all around a wonderful place to work and shop.