Target’s Radical Agenda: Customer Safety in the Crosshairs

By: American Decency Staff

Pick a bathroom, any bathroom.  That’s the new policy of Target stores.  The retail giant and long-time supporter of the LGBT agenda is the first national chain of its kind to implement a transgender bathroom policy.  In a corporate statement taking a shot at laws requiring people to use the restroom according to their biological sex, Target states: “In our stores, we demonstrate our commitment to an inclusive experience in many ways.  Most relevant for the conversations currently under way, we welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.”

While Target implies that restricting bathrooms based on sex is a form of discrimination, they ignore the very real concern and the purpose of laws such as that passed in North Carolina – safety.  As North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest stated:  “If our action in keeping men out of women’s bathrooms and showers protected the life of just one child or one woman from being molested or assaulted then it was worth it.”

Why is it better to force young girls to be scared and uncomfortable going to the bathroom or changing room knowing that a male could walk in at any minute, than it is to require a very small population of those who identify as transgender to use the restroom according to how they were born?

And the number who identify as transgender is miniscule!  In a July 2015 U.S. Census Bureau report which breaks down the maximum number of people who identify as transgender by state, the highest population in any state is 10.6 people out of every 100,000.  The transgender population estimate for Minnesota – the home of Target’s headquarters – is 6 per 100,000. That is 0.006% of the population – far less than even one percent.  Looking at it another way, the population of Minnesota is roughly 9.5 million.  That means there are approximately only 570 people in the entire state of Minnesota who identify as transgender!  (And Minnesota’s estimated transgender population is higher than the majority of states according to the U.S. Census Bureau.) Yet we as a nation are turning society on its head and putting the safety and privacy of millions at risk for the comfort of a few confused souls.

And privacy and safety are the reason for these “bathroom” laws – not discrimination.  Knowing human nature, there will be countless heterosexual predators who use open bathroom policies such as Target’s to prey on women and girls.  It’s already taking place. For just a few examples see hereand hereand here. 

How do we keep out the voyeurs, rapists, and pedophiles if we say that any man who “feels” like a woman can enter the ladies room? 

That is the real concern.  And based on the many angry online comments posted by Target shoppers in response to the store’s new bathroom policy, Target may find as they open their bathroom and changing room doors to a few “transgender” shoppers, millions of customers will be heading for the store’s exit.

Express your concern to Target.  Click here to send a message to Target headquarters or see below for further contact information.

Target Corporation
Brian C. Cornell – CEO
1000 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis MN 55403
1-800-440-0680
brian.cornell@target.com
media@target.com

 

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