Conservative Group Calls For Target Boycott Over Trans Bathroom Policy

Shopper Laura Steele leaves a Target store in Toronto on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. More than 17,600 Target employees will eventually lose their jobs when the U.S. discount retailer closes its 133 Canadian stores after... Shopper Laura Steele leaves a Target store in Toronto on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. More than 17,600 Target employees will eventually lose their jobs when the U.S. discount retailer closes its 133 Canadian stores after only about two years to end financial losses that went as high as a billion dollars a year. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Nathan Denette) MORE LESS
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The American Family Association on Thursday called for a boycott of Target stores after the company announced that transgender employees and customers should use the bathroom of their choice.

“Corporate America must stop bullying people who disagree with the radical left agenda to remake society into their progressive image,” AFA President Tim Wildmon said in a statement. “Target’s harmful policy poses a danger to women and children. We think many customers will agree.”

Widmon said that while the conservative group “does not believe the transgender community poses this danger to the wider public,” they are concerned that Target’s policy “provides a possible gateway for predators who are out there.”

“When Target claims that ‘everyone deserves to feel like they belong,’ did they ask customers who don’t want to use a bathroom with an opposite-sex stranger?” he continued in the statement. “Why doesn’t ‘everyone’ actually mean everyone at Target?”

The American Family Association suggested that Target provide single-use unisex bathrooms to accommodate transgender individuals.

The conservative group also stopped using PayPal after the company halted plans to open up an operations center in North Carolina in protest of the state’s sweeping anti-LGBT law.

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  1. The ‘American Family Association’ should probably just take a hike since they don’t represent ‘Americans’ OR ‘family’…just another bunch of bigoted conservative white guys that have nothing else to do but get in everyone else’s face.

  2. MESSAGE FROM LOCAL TARGET SUPERVISORS

    “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”

  3. If I was in a restroom and this guy walked in, I’d call 9-11 and report a possible sexual pervert was in the men’s restroom!

    Photo of AFA President Tim Wildmon!

  4. The conservative group also stopped using PayPal after the company halted plans to open up an operations center in North Carolina in protest of the state’s sweeping anti-LGBT law.

    If they go about boycotting everyone joining the 21st century it could get problematic. Finding everything you need in life at Tractor Supply and Stuckey's will be a mean feat.

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