Moss Park / Garden District · Toronto
A community and compounding pharmacy is coming.
Opening on the ground floor at 231 Dundas St E, in the same building as Kind Clinic. Two doors, one place to sort out your medication and the care that goes with it.
The name we call you will be the name you use. You will not have to explain it at a counter with a queue behind you.
Gender-affirming pharmacy care
Hormone therapy is a pharmacy problem as much as a prescribing one. Getting the injection technique right, having the needles you actually need in stock, knowing what your Trillium deductible means in practice, and not being called the wrong name at the counter are all things a pharmacy either does well or does badly.
Here is what we are building toward.
Injection teaching and supplies
Subcutaneous and intramuscular technique taught properly, the needle and syringe sizes people here actually use kept in stock, and somewhere to bring the sharps back to.
Your chosen name on your label
What we will be able to change, what the law requires us to keep, and how we intend to handle the gap between the two.
Paying for hormone therapy
Trillium, ODB, OHIP+ and private plans — which applies to you, and who fills in the form.
Staying on your hormones
Refill timing, transferring in, a supply that covers a trip, and what to do if you run out or a product goes on shortage.
What things will cost
Most of what people worry about paying for here is covered, and the rest usually has a program behind it: the Ontario Drug Benefit, the Trillium Drug Program for people whose drug costs are high relative to their income, OHIP+ for people 24 and under without other coverage, and the Exceptional Access Program for cases the formulary does not cover.
Working out which of those applies to you is a real skill, and it is one of the things a pharmacy is for. We will help with the applications, not just point at them.
Coverage and costs, explained →One location, two doors
Kind Clinic is in the same building, on the second floor. If you are starting PrEP, starting hormone therapy, or being treated for something today, the prescribing and the dispensing can happen in one trip instead of two.
Kind Clinic and Kind Pharmacy are separate businesses under common ownership. You can fill your prescription anywhere.