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200 LGBTQ groups demand Target restock Pride merch, release statement now: 'No such thing as neutrality'
FOX NEWS ^ | June 6, 2023 | Kristine Parks

Posted on 06/06/2023 4:33:34 PM PDT by Morgana

More than 200 LGBTQ groups angered by Target's decision to pull Pride merchandise from shelves are demanding the company "denounce extremists" and restock all the Pride merchandise in stores and online.

The Human Rights Campaign, along with GLAAD, GLSEN and other groups, released a statement asking Target and other businesses like Anheuser-Busch to "reject and speak out against anti-LGBTQ+ extremism going into Pride Month." More than 200 other progressive and LGBTQ organizations signed on to the statement, which argued that showing support for their community was good for business.

The organizations laid out a three-part demand that calls on Target to restock all the Pride merchandise both in stores and online, ensure the safety of Target employees and release a statement "reaffirming their commitment to the LGBTQ+ community" within 24 hours.

"When it comes to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion, there is no such thing as neutrality," the LGTBQ coalition said.

The coalition suggested they would continue to support Target and other businesses who rejected criticism from consumers.

"Target, and all businesses, can leverage the support of LGBTQ+ organizations to navigate this hate, so that together, we can let extremists know unequivocally that, just as with every other failed anti-LGBTQ+ campaign of the past, fear will not win," the statement reads.

Target displays LGBTQ-themed apparel annually leading into June. However, the retail giant came under increased scrutiny after consumers noticed stores selling "tuck-friendly" women's bathing suits for transgender people and Pride apparel for children and infants.

The company responded to widespread backlash over the Pride merchandise by moving some Pride products to less prominent sections of the store and removing other merchandise altogether. Target said it moved the products to ensure employees' safety.

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KEYWORDS: pride; target; transagenda
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To: Morgana
--- "No such thing as neutrality"

One should play in an arena where the rules are clearly stated. Now that this has be so clearly stated, the rift between us widens into chasm.

21 posted on 06/06/2023 5:05:07 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: EandH Dad

Also like no such thing as transgender


22 posted on 06/06/2023 5:05:46 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Morgana

Hey Target…tell the militant fags to eff off and you might gain some of your clientele back.

You might want to keep men out of the women’s restrooms too.


23 posted on 06/06/2023 5:06:34 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: Morgana

Or what? They’ll break into the store and redecorate?

*snap, snap*


24 posted on 06/06/2023 5:07:37 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some are more equal than others.")
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To: szweig

I’ll bet the ringleader of this madness is Gyorgy Schwartz the nazi collaborator!


25 posted on 06/06/2023 5:08:04 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: libh8er

That’s right, there IS no such thing as a transgender!


26 posted on 06/06/2023 5:08:31 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

May they all burn forever!


27 posted on 06/06/2023 5:08:56 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

LOL - good one. 😂


28 posted on 06/06/2023 5:10:01 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“Target is still willing to completely destroy its stock “

I am not so sure that those giblets really understand what
good for business means ... when thy say..

“support for their community was good for business.”

I don’t think the CFOs of some of these companies would say that. Perhaps we are not speaking the same language ?
The left has really put a lot in to “redefining” words.


29 posted on 06/06/2023 5:10:11 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: FlyingEagle

The Transgender Movement why & what is behind it?

IN-DEPTH: Transgender Movement Has ‘Dangerous’ Hidden Motivations, Says Former LGBT Activist She left the work, she says, because it was grooming children to accept LGBT identities and was funded by international agencies

By Jackson Elliott

May 26, 2023Updated: May 27, 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Despite consumer opposition, companies believe backing transgenderism will win them more long-term cash because it has the approval of global regulatory power players, according to women’s rights activist Kay Yang.

The push is part of a philosophical movement aimed at allowing for customization of the human body with sex-change surgery, technological advances, and more, she said. And companies seek to be part of this fast-growing lucrative industry.

Yang speaks with authority on the push to build acceptance for transgenderism. She’s seen that cabal from the inside.Until she left in disgust, Yang worked passionately as an LGBT activist, she said. Her employer received funding to push the acceptance of transgenderism across society. The money came from within the United States and abroad.

She’s speaking out now about her alarm as she watches a cavalcade of corporations launch marketing campaigns that celebrate transgenderism, despite customer outrage.Sure, some companies are losing money now, she said. But they believe it will be worth it over the long term.

“That money, to them, is nothing,” Yang told The Epoch Times. Those companies are “being promised that, ‘OK, you might lose a little bit now. But you’ll make it in the new economy. And you’ll still be here.“And all the businesses that don’t go along with this—we’ll make sure that they’re excluded.’”

It’s a coordinated effort, a conspiracy, she said, promoted by global organizations like the World Economic Forum (WEF).And it’s why corporations, government organizations, and nonprofits have joined forces to push acceptance of transgenderism on a largely unwilling populace, Yang said.

‘Back to Reality’

Yang left LGBT activism behind, she said, when she realized the movement was leading children to accept certain sexual ideas and normalize the ideas of sexual acts.It was grooming them, she said.

The horror of that hit her when she learned a transgender-identifying man in her circle of friends had molested a 16-year-old boy, she said. No one seemed alarmed.

She can’t disclose details publicly because of fear of retribution, she said. But she showed public records of his criminal charges to an Epoch Times reporter. The man’s name is on the sex offender registry, The Epoch Times confirmed.

This brought Yang “back to reality,” she said. She had to accept that LGBT grooming of children was real.Though she’d been an advocate for LGBT causes, she became repulsed by them.She’s not surprised to see American brands including Target, Bud Light, and Adidas celebrating transgenderism in their products and marketing, even after widespread consumer outrage.

Target includes children’s books and gingerbread houses as part of a Pride display of merchandise at a Texas store on May 24, 2023. (Darlene McCormick Sanchez/The Epoch Times)The motivations behind corporations’ decisions to back transgenderism go deep, she said.It’s motivated by a desire to help create a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” that merges human biology with manmade technology, creating endless possibilities for profit, she said.

Transgenderism as a widely accepted part of society furthers that push, she said.

“This is where they are planning to take humanity as a whole,” she said.

Monetizing the Human Body Sex-change surgery, cross-sex hormones, and breast implants are just the beginning, she said.

Trying to “customize” the human body with technology is called “transhumanism”—going beyond being human.Pro-transgender activists march outside of Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, on Sept. 18, 2022. Transgenderism teaches a fundamental separation between the soul and body, Yang said. Transgenderism argues that if a man’s soul or mind is female, his body can be customized until it appears female. The same goes for women.

This approach makes it possible to sell intensive body modification, Yang said. It’s fast becoming a global industry. Even now, doctors are planning the first transplant to put a uterus into a man. They believe it will allow him to experience carrying a baby to term, when it would be delivered by Cesarean section.‘Biohacking’ the Human Body.The transhumanist movement also promotes “biohacking,” the practice of putting technological implants into the human body, Yang said.“Make your own body. Make your own gender. They’re priming those young people. They’re grooming them to accept that. The next thing you can do is implant something in your brain, implant something in your arm.”

Technology also will allow government control over reproduction and the population, Yang said.“We’re being moved more toward this idea that reproduction, the birth of children, can happen without women and without a dad,” Yang said. “And they’re superseding the natural form of reproduction to the point where they want to wrest total control of how human reproduction occurs and have that be modified through the lab.” It sounds like science fiction. But companies like Neuralink seek to connect the human brain to computers. Facebook’s Metaverse intends to create a virtual world that could host a billion people, Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a 2021 letter.

Companies like Cyborg Nest look for ways to implant people with technology to provide new senses and abilities. And transgender millionaire Martine Rothblatt is working on entirely separating humanity from the body, using software to create “mind files.” These files would hypothetically record a human mind without a brain or body.

The WEF declared in a video that by 2030, “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.”

It included some optimistic claims, such as new technologies able to fabricate replacement organs for people in need.It also predicted that climate change would displace 1 billion people, and that “the U.S. won’t be the world’s leading superpower.”

Meat would become “an occasional treat,” the video asserted, and “Western values will have been tested to the breaking point, and people will rent everything and own nothing.”That could apply to the human body, Yang said. With implanted technology, people may soon find their own bodies for rent.

The WEF has said this view is a prediction, not a goal. Top-Down ‘Activism’

The promise that pro-LGBT companies will succeed in the future comes from a web of organizations, including the WEF, the United Nations (UN), and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), Yang said. BSR is a business network of more than 300 companies dedicated to social justice causes.

The Epoch Times reached out to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner, the WEF, and the BSR for comment. None have responded.

When Yang started her work as an LGBT activist in 2011, she had never heard of a “trans kid,” but believed in the transgender cause, she said. Out of fear of retribution, she asked not to disclose publicly the name of the New York LGBT center where she worked, but an Epoch Times reporter confirmed the details.

The group sent representatives to local schools and local businesses to deliver programs ostensibly to combat bullying. But the programs also were meant to encourage children to adopt LGBT identities, Yang said. The group received funding from the New York State Department of Health, she said. “The more children who identified as LGBT, the more funding we would get,” said Yang. “Of course, more kids are going to start identifying as LGBT when we start going into their classrooms and teaching them about all of this language that they didn’t know about before.”

As the LGBT center began to discuss transgenderism with children and encourage children into transgender identities, “trans kids” started appearing, she recalled.

Women’s rights activist Kay Yang (R) with women and mothers outside the NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships in Atlanta, Ga. on March 17-19, 2022.

Her New York employer received funding from the Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Yang said. Similar centers receiving similar funding are spread across the country, she said.

In 2011, GLSEN told activists that refusing to let boys into girls’ locker rooms was “hostility” against LGBT students, Yang said. GLSEN partnered with the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2011 to create an anti-bullying program funded by the International Business Machines Corporation and the Arcus Foundation, Yang said. The Arcus Foundation is an international LGBT charity group.

This anti-bullying program used surveys to establish that LGBT-identifying kids were being bullied in school, Yang said. But the surveys were worded to gain the desired answers, and not to reflect reality accurately, she said.“You’re cherry-picking,” Yang said. “You’re basically asking the kids at the gay-straight alliance already. They’re already indoctrinated to believe that they’re part of an oppressed class.”After these surveys returned results that LGBT kids were likely to be bullied in school, the U.N. and activist groups used the surveys to lobby for international programs promoting LGBT activism, Yang said.

Her group indirectly received support and funding from UNESCO by way of GLSEN, she said. And in 2011, UNESCO embarked on a global campaign against anti-LGBT bullying, she said.

But it was all a push to bring LGBT conversations into students in schools, she said.

“They had already started laying the groundwork to establish that the way that they were going to get this into the schools is by saying, ‘This is how we make a safe school. And if you don’t have safe facilities for trans students, meaning if males aren’t allowed to come into the women’s and girls’ bathrooms, then that means your school is not a safe place.’”

A gender-neutral sign is posted outside a restroom at Oval Park Grill in Durham, N.C., on May 11, 2016. (Sara D. Davis/Getty Images) In 2019, the WEF launched the Partnership for Global LGBTI Equality. The “I” stands for “intersex,” a term describing a rare genetic disorder resulting in genitals that are neither entirely male nor entirely female.

The partnership will enlist 50–100 WEF member companies to implement the United Nations LGBTI Standards, the WEF website states. It will also list “best practices” for presenting LGBT discrimination and encourage “new cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaborations.”

Global Gender Agenda

The U.N. document also encourages companies to subtly or openly urge “LGBTI” inclusivity in the countries in which they operate. This means developing policies that “respect human rights,” the document states.

The document explains that “human rights means not discriminating against LGBTI people, calling transgender people by their preferred gender names and pronouns, covering the cost of sex-change treatments for employees, allowing trans-identifying individuals into opposite-sex spaces, supporting the creation of LGBTI “informal staff groups,” the document adds.Companies should force even unwilling employees to “respect the name, pronouns, terms, and gender used by the person concerned,” the United Nations document states. The document suggests that international companies have three options when dealing with local laws.

They can have their local branch policy obey laws against LGBT agendas while keeping global policies pro-LGBT. Or they can pass LGBT policies within the company, but not push to change local cultures. Or companies can promote LGBT activism both within and outside the workplace, affecting the local culture.

U.S. President Joe Biden (L), flanked by U.S. Climate Adviser John Kerry, arrives to attend a meeting focused on action and solidarity at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, on Nov. 1, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)Finally, the United Nations guideline tells companies it will be in their best interest to comply.“There is a trend towards socially responsible consumption in many countries, where consumers identify with and reward companies committed to meeting environmental, labor, social, and human rights standards,” the U.N. document reads.

So if companies don’t support LGBT issues, they will struggle in a changing world as customers and investors reject them, the U.N. suggests. The work of transgender activists is a profound threat to humanity because it threatens the integrity of the human body, Yang said. Once a soldier in that army, she’s now committed to fighting it.


30 posted on 06/06/2023 5:14:20 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: Morgana

You faggots are the ones who started this non neutrality. It’s gonna kick you in the ass before it’s done.


31 posted on 06/06/2023 5:15:39 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
Reminds me of the “Seinfeld” episode in which Kramer is in the AIDS walk, but doesn’t want to wear the AIDS ribbon

Exactly


32 posted on 06/06/2023 5:15:41 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Morgana

Go queers! Force these companies to bend to your will, it’s working so well...


33 posted on 06/06/2023 5:15:52 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: Morgana

May as well. Target it finished anyway


34 posted on 06/06/2023 5:15:54 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓)
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To: Morgana

They should do that, so the sales drop even further.


35 posted on 06/06/2023 5:24:20 PM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: Morgana

These are the groups that want to rape children!

It is long past time to fight them. Take out the trash. Give them no mercy.


36 posted on 06/06/2023 5:29:33 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: Morgana
The homosexual agenda has two primary motives:

1) attempt to neutralize all religious opposition and criminalize such opposition

2) normalize sex between grown ups and minors...especially men and boys.

Doubt me? Mention NAMBLA to a homosexual and watch them run from it like roaches when the light is turned on.

37 posted on 06/06/2023 5:30:29 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Morgana

It is like they/it are organized by say the democrat party.


38 posted on 06/06/2023 5:37:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Morgana

Am I mistaken in thinking it was not all pervert merchandise but only that being marketed for children and babies? So how sick of a freak do you have to be to demand the children and babies declare their sexual preferences?


39 posted on 06/06/2023 5:39:00 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: minnesota_bound

Ya think? I call the Dem party the Groomer party now.


40 posted on 06/06/2023 5:51:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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