Conservative Group ‘Testing’ Target By Sending Men To Women’s Bathrooms

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 has been “testing” Target’s new policy allowing employees and customers to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity by sending men to women’s bathrooms, according to the conservative group’s director of governmental affairs, Sandy Rios.

“I think there’s no question that when you say that there are no barriers in the bathroom, and that if men or women feel like they are men or women, the opposite of however they are equipped, and you have no restrictions, the net effect will be, people will not be stopped,” Rios told “Breitbart News Daily” on Monday. “We’ve already had people testing this, going into Targets and men trying to go into bathrooms. There is absolutely no barrier.”

“And so the chief concern, even more than just, I think, trauma, certainly for little girls of having men dressed like women coming in their bathrooms, the chief concern of the American Family Association is the predators who will take advantage,” she added.

Last month, the American Family Association called for a boycott of Target over the store’s “harmful” bathroom policy.

H/t Right Wing Watch

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  1. The more appropriate term then “testing” would be “harassing”

  2. What magical barrier existed last year? Did God establish a force field at all Target restrooms for women which prevented men from entering? Which the greater combined power of Satan and Target have destroyed?

    I’m unclear on the details here. I clearly remember using Target men’s rooms in the past year without providing a birth certificate, a passport, a driver’s license or a state id, and without showing my genital equipment to the Target gender examiner.

  3. Were I a religious person, and my religion had a place called “Hell”, there would be an express entrance for people demonizing those in the LGBT community, and the poor, and others they mocked and belittled and chose to make targets of violence and hatred.

  4. Testing by sending men into women’s bathrooms. Do they have any concept of what the idea of gender identity even means? Of course not. Can they cite a case of a transgendered person preying on people in bathrooms–or anywhere for that matter? Of course not. Could we cite cases of transgendered people being assaulted, raped, and murdered? It would only take a three second search of Google to find numerous instances.

  5. Political predators practicing perverted politics.

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