When mothers and girls expressed alarm, he told city officials that he had a right to be there under Washington’s new gender non-discrimination law.
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Target issued a statement last week saying, “In our stores, we demonstrate our commitment to an inclusive experience in many ways”.
My understanding of this statement was if a customer at Target identifies as a transgender woman, they will be accepted into the women’s restroom. Also the other problem I think that that will prevent is none of us are qualified to psychologically evaluate transgender people to determine whether or not the man or woman that’s coming into the opposite sex’s facility is actually a transgender.
However, this issue has since flooded my Facebook and Twitter feeds.
“American families are concerned about their wives and daughters being harmed by predators or voyeurs who will now have more freedom to enter women’s bathrooms”, AFA president Tim Wildmon told Life Site News.
Grant Stancliff, spokesman for Equality Ohio, said he understands the fear of wanting to protect women and families but more government in our bathrooms isn’t the solution.
As more businesses push back against the bathroom law, responses will shift the spotlight away from Target, Marzilli says.
Target should not allow men to enter the women’s restrooms and dressing rooms – period. The shopper checks in with the fitting room attendant and is then allowed to use any open fitting room stall.
“Sometimes I get uncomfortable in the men’s room”, he said to an employee. Soon, after the announcement the American Family Association, a group that promotes fundamentalist Christianity and opposes same-sex marriage, began circulating a petition on-line, asking supporters to boycott Target. Donald Trump has already said Jenner is welcome to use the women’s restroom in Trump tower even though Jenner is still attracted to women. I trust you will by signing the AFA petition to #BoycottTarget, joining over 800,000 other shoppers who have said NO to Target. “Until that all is settled, I have to go with the safety of everyone in respect to everyone’s privacy”.
Using a metric it calls its “Buzz Index”, which measures both positive and negative consumer perception of a brand, YouGov found that Target’s reputation fell by nine points, with a slightly more negative perception among women. “It could be a unisex bathroom, just not urinals where someone’s exposing themselves publicly when little children and women are in that bathroom”. This does not happen.
A social media post that has gone viral by claiming urinals were installed in a California Target location has been debunked – but continues the debate about the retailer’s gender equality policies.
“An NBC News headline read “‘Bathroom’ protests will likely leave Target unscathed, experts say”. “Assuming that the average customer makes two trips per month (a likely conservative number), and the signatures grow to one million (this was written just before that benchmark was passed), we arrive at $1.5 billion … in lost revenue annually to Target”.
The National Organization for Marriage is also supporting the pledge to boycott Target until it reverses its bathroom policy.
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