Posted on 04/28/2016 7:22:21 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A sign posted in a Target bathroom stall cautioned female customers that men can now use the women’s restroom because of the company’s recent policy. The sign left many people baffled and outraged.
The sign was posted in the women’s restroom in a Keizer, Oregon Target. It read:
Attention Ladies:
Target Corp. has publically announced that Men may now use the Women’s restroom (and vice versa), no questions asked.
The sign further implored other customers to “please be cautious” and to “report suspected hidden cameras” and “loitering or peeping individuals.” In addition, it called on parents to “use [their] good judgment about sending children or teens to the restroom alone.”
One customer Nathalie Olds found the sign over the weekend and was confused by it, not realizing that it was probably posted by a protester. “I took it as fact. Heterosexual cisgender men were allowed in the bathroom now,” she said.
When she checked Target’s policy on restrooms, she saw that transgender people were allowed to use whichever restroom corresponded to their “gender identity.” Then, she became angry.
She was deeply offended that whoever posted the sign didn’t understand that a transgender man – that is, a woman who “identifies” as a man – is not a woman. She – or “he” – should be allowed to use the men’s restroom. And vice versa.
Olds concluded that the perpetrator responsible for the hateful sign must have been “transphobic.”
“I realized it was obviously somebody who was transphobic or somebody who wanted to basically state that transgender women are men and that’s not ok with me,” she said.
Target is investigating the matter to find out who is responsible for putting the sign up. Meanwhile, Olds said that she will not be shopping at that Target location until she knows for certain that the person responsible for the atrocity is not a Target employee.
hilarious, and she won’t shop at target anymore....looks like a successful protest if I ever saw one.
no, they get to pee on the carts outside the target
yesterday, a local,sane, and rational minister asked the local target manager about the Target bathroom policy. His report was nearly identical to the sign in question.
If I weren’t old and wore out, I would FReep target women’s rest room this afternoon telling all that on this particular day I felt I was a woman
Sign boycott petition https://www.afa.net/action-alerts/sign-the-boycott-target-pledge/
it’s now at 1,011,035 and growing and Target says it’s not worried.
That's been my experience also.
OK, so I’m a 100% heterosexual male who one day decides that I’d like to know what it’s like to be a lesbian. However, I have to be a woman to be a lesbian, right? So I “logically” conclude that, in order to be a lesbian, I must “identify” as a woman - at least temporarily and for the purposes of my inquisitiveness about being a lesbian. I enter the womens’ bathroom in a store hoping to meet a fellow lesbian, but I’m turned in by a woman who’s not nearly as open-minded as I am.
Which of us has broken the law...?
Is this not the most idiotic pile of steaming dung that you can imagine? A national debate on whether men should use the mens’ room and women the womens’ room. Lord help us!
Good one!
Why not sue Target for not providing urinals in the ladies room?
Already done. They're called "gay" bars.
Six months later, the headline:
“TARGET DECLARES BANKRUPTCY! J. C. Penney mulls bankruptcy.”
Well, if it’s any indication Target’s stock (NYSE:TGT) is at $79.33 as of 3:30PM, a 2%+ drop today. Back on 4/19 it was at $84/share and it’s been steadily decreasing since. Their recent stock performance speaks for itself.
Good point.
Exactly.
That and the weird obsession with refusing to shop there until she feels that it was not a employee. If I were target I would tell he to go pound sand. However if it it really a customer, that is apparently the demographic Target wants in their stores.
Will never shop at Target again ever! This is just nuts. I guess the future is we will all have to switch to driving RVs with self contained bathrooms. Talk about stupid-stupid just can’t be cured, and gets worse every year.
Why should any other 'male' get that right ?
That is not equality. It's unconstitutional.
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