Target to continue discrimination against cultural norms and religious people- CEO basically says ~~ don’t like our ‘whatever sex you feel like’ bathroom policy . . . pound sand.
- We are among the 1.2 million who will, to their competitors.
Randy DeSota at JoeMiller.com writes:
Target CEO Stands by Transgender Bathroom Decision, Offers ‘Option’ to Customers
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Target CEO Brian Cornell responded on Wednesday to the backlash the retailer has received in response to its new transgender bathroom policy.
Over 1.2 million people, to date, have signed a petition [sponsored by the American Family Association (AFA)] pledging to boycott until the policy is changed. Since Target’s policy was announced April 19, the company’s stock has dropped approximately 10 percent, or $4.5 billion in market value.
What Cornell did not say is that male and female restrooms would go back to being exclusively for that biological gender. Target’s solution . . . is that if a customer is uncomfortable with potentially having a person of a different sex in the restroom, choose the family restroom.
Given family restrooms only accommodate one customer at a time, that may create demand problems.
As reported by Western Journalism, the AFA was to meet with Target executives and has offered that if the retailer wants to address its safety concerns, a solution would be to provide unisex bathrooms (presumably the family restroom would fit that bill), in addition to the standard male and female ones. Transgender people (who make up less than half of one percent of the population) would then have that option, if they are not comfortable using the restroom that corresponds to their biological gender.
