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Target faces backlash on stance on transgender bathrooms
Associated Press ^ | May 4, 2016 | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO

Posted on 05/04/2016 8:42:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1

NEW YORK (AP) — Consumer backlash is growing against Target's stance on what type of bathrooms its transgender customers and employees can use.

Two weeks ago, the Minneapolis-based discounter issued a statement that said customers and employees can use the restroom or fitting room that "corresponds to their gender identity." The move made Target the first major retailer to take such a prominent position on the issue, and won praise from supporters of transgender rights. But Target's position has also sparked criticism on social media.

One online petition started by a group called The American Family Association, a conservative Christian advocacy group, calls for a boycott of Target stores. And customer surveys from two research firms separately show that Target's reputation has taken a hit.

Still, analysts say it's hard to gauge the impact —if any— the backlash has had on Target's business.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backlash; bathrooms; bathroomwars; boycotttarget; homosexualagenda; retail; target; unisex
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Businesses should remember that transsexuals represent a very small fraction of their customer base and not to piss off the majority.
1 posted on 05/04/2016 8:42:23 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

The left and their business slaves need to understand that not nearly as many people are on board with their radical agenda as they are lead to believe.


2 posted on 05/04/2016 8:43:35 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: reaganaut1

Everywhere is freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity


3 posted on 05/04/2016 8:45:23 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity?)
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To: reaganaut1

Like I said, until you see the next quarterly earnings report, don’t expect anything to change...

If Target’s earnings truly take a hit relative to the rest of the industry, then and only then will you likely see something change.

Their earnings report is due out on 5/18 and covers through the end of April. The announced this stupid policy in April so if they wind up with earnings far outside the rest of the industry then they got an immediate impact... because the policy happened so late in the quarter, it may take until next quarter to show up, assuming people actually follow through in large numbers with their threats to boycott them.


4 posted on 05/04/2016 8:51:03 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: reaganaut1

This will only work if women really care about men using their bathrooms. I’m not convinced they do. We’ll know in a few months or so.

I buy that Target might do this for great social justice and screw business reasons, but I don’t buy that from Trump. He seems like he at least knows business stuff. So what, he doesn’t know if his women customers care or not? We might be really farther along the cultural slide than I thought.

Freegards


5 posted on 05/04/2016 8:52:17 AM PDT by Ransomed
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I think I’m a bird - I’ve shoved feathers under my skin... AND I want Target to provide bathrooms for people like ME ME ME because birds poop differently...

Step up to the plate Target... show us how open minded you are by willingly cutting into your own profits FOR MY SAKE. Remember: feathers make a person a bird.


6 posted on 05/04/2016 8:55:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (Imagine the shrieking MSM outrage if Trump supporters had tried to flip a car... David French)
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To: Jeff Chandler; reaganaut1; fwdude

There is an easy way to end this insanity if we on the right had the same level of conviction that the left has.

All need to do is have a planned coordinated use of women’s bathrooms by men who suddenly felt they were women. This could be done at all the Targets in the country on the same day. Several men would go in the restrooms at the same time. The results would be that the women would have a hissy fit complain to management and stop shopping there until things would change. This could be repeated as necessary.


7 posted on 05/04/2016 8:57:48 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: HamiltonJay

How do you boycott a place you never visit anyway?

Wal-Mart beats them almost every way on both selection and pricing, and for me, Wal-Mart is closer.

But I would drive 20 miles further each way not to shop at Target.

Sports Authority just bit the dust. Maybe, just maybe, Target may be driven down in a similar crash.

Should be spectacular.


8 posted on 05/04/2016 8:58:11 AM PDT by alloysteel (May the fourth be with you....)
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Still, analysts say it's hard to gauge the impact —if any— the backlash has had on Target's business.

Oh, baloney. They get the daily sales figures and the comps within hours. They don't want to tell us.

9 posted on 05/04/2016 9:01:04 AM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
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To: fwdude
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

― Frank Zappa

10 posted on 05/04/2016 9:02:26 AM PDT by Lockbox
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To: reaganaut1

All this because a few demented people want to affirm their “gender identity” by going into a room marked with the name of the sex with which they identify, in spite of the fact that the current liberal dogma is that gender is assigned at birth, and that after birth the person may choose from a wide spectrum, a broad continuum of genders to identify with, and that the current dogma refuses to accept the binary “MALE/FEMALE” dichotomy.


11 posted on 05/04/2016 9:06:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Lockbox

Progress is vastly overrated. After all, progress is what progressives do....

Pushing the envelope from time to time is OK, so long as the fabric of the envelope is not torn completely.


12 posted on 05/04/2016 9:07:17 AM PDT by alloysteel (May the fourth be with you....)
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To: reaganaut1

The solution to all this is very simple. Build special transgender bathrooms that allow only one person at a time. Just like airliners.

Keep all the regular bathrooms segregated by sex as they are now. PC businesses like Target can put their money where their mouth is. All this for a fraction of a percent of the population. Jeeesh!


13 posted on 05/04/2016 9:08:53 AM PDT by 386wt
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If you provide a “women’s” restroom you are in fact making a promise that it’s for actual women. What these people are really doing is, just as one Hannity forumite wrote, insisting that the many be uncomfortable so a few can be.

So where folks, and we must be honest enough to say Women, should have recourse to have members of the wrong sex removed from a restroom not for them, under this most recent bout of cultural aggression they are to be forced to put up or retreat, and cease to use public restrooms.

The confused and perverted, along with their willing PCdiot allies, have decided that the shameful should now be the reason to shame; but, we cannot permit them to do so.

We need to push back.


14 posted on 05/04/2016 9:12:44 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Ransomed
We might be really farther along the cultural slide than I thought.

Unless you think we are near the bottom, we are.

Affording special privileges to mentally ill men while threatening and discriminating against normal people is pretty far down the slope.

When an employee at a CATHOLIC college is investigated for the "hate crime" of stating there are 2 sexes, we are way, way down the slope.

15 posted on 05/04/2016 9:14:08 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: 386wt
The solution to all this is very simple. Build special transgender bathrooms that allow only one person at a time. Just like airliners.

At most places these days, they have a "familiy" restroom for those with young children, that is generally a one-person affair. These freaky people who are such a tiny, tiny portion of the population are just a bunch of whiners with a political agenda.

16 posted on 05/04/2016 9:14:44 AM PDT by zeugma (Woohoo! It looks like I'll get to vote for an abrasive clown for president!)
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To: 386wt

The guys who claim they are women don’t want that, and Target agrees with them. They will only do something like your solution if women pitch a fit, and I guess we are waiting to see if they will or not.

Freegards


17 posted on 05/04/2016 9:17:26 AM PDT by Ransomed
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To: aquila48

Awesome! Use their tactics against them and overwhelm their system with it.


18 posted on 05/04/2016 9:18:50 AM PDT by Vision Thing (Vote Trump!)
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To: reaganaut1

I would implore Target know it all execs to do a case study on K-Mart. K-mart denied that the boycotts due to carrying porn had no impact; however, all the layoff managers that resulted from closed stores would testify otherwise. Wait for Q2 earnings call.


19 posted on 05/04/2016 9:19:47 AM PDT by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Oh, I think we are pretty darn far along. But come on, not enough women who care about men claiming to be women using their bathrooms? It’s a huge indicator we are even talking about it, sure. But if women don’t get this enough to bring themselves to stop shopping at these places, that is perhaps a much more concrete indicator.

Freegards


20 posted on 05/04/2016 9:21:49 AM PDT by Ransomed
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