Statement released today by Target:
Inclusivity is a core belief at Target. It’s something we celebrate. We stand for equality and equity, and strive to make our guests and team members feel accepted, respected and welcomed in our stores and workplaces every day.
We believe that everyone—every team member, every guest, and every community—deserves to be protected from discrimination, and treated equally. Consistent with this belief, Target supports the federal Equality Act, which provides protections to LGBT individuals, and opposes action that enables discrimination.
In our stores, we demonstrate our commitment to an inclusive experience in many ways. Most relevant for the conversations currently underway, we welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.
We regularly assess issues and consider many factors such as impact to our business, guests and team members. Given the specific questions these legislative proposals raised about how we manage our fitting rooms and restrooms, we felt it was important to state our position.
Everyone deserves to feel like they belong. And you’ll always be accepted, respected and welcomed at Target.
next time your sitting on the toilet at target, will you wonder if the person sittin beside you is a man or a woman?? IDEA, pee before you go then u wont need the bathroom
i always thought I should be a woman, think ill put on a dress and go to target and watch the women pee
Glad we have a gender neutral bathroom in our home.
I’m done with Target and any other store that allows this crap. Until they have their own bathroom they will not get any of my money. I strongly encourage the rest of you to join the movement to boycott any and all business they allow this garbage to happen.
I’m almost getting to normal, so go out and buy a port a potty of your own!
THE DONALD will be our next president – illeagals/muzzys and politically correct people have 2 choices – Move to California or DC/AC.
Question: If someone sits when they pee, how would you ever know their gender?
I sit all the time when I pee and my schlong still goes for a dip in the toilet water.
“Oh gosh, I’m sorry. You’re trans?”
“Yuh-huh, I identify as a woman.”
“You mean a man?”
“No…a woman. I’m biologically male and was assigned male at birth, but I identify as a woman. I am a transwoman.”
“…You have a beard.”
“So?”
“You are not a transwoman.”
“Oh, I’m sorry! I wasn’t aware that I was required to conform to socially constructed ideals of gender and beauty in order to be considered a woman. I identify as a woman, therefore I am a woman. I reject oppressive social gender norms.”
Girl at the door argues with me for a bit before calling some senior student supervisor or something. Supervisor is even more liberal than her. “Look, if she identifies as a woman then we-“
“EXCUSE ME, but I prefer he-him pronouns!”
“You use male pronouns?”
“Ugh, no. They are not MALE pronouns, they are he-him pronouns. Just because I identify as a woman doesn’t mean I am required to use pronouns as dictated by a restrictive society that enforces a strict gender binary. I am a woman and I use he-him pronouns because I have a preference for them.”
“If you’re a woman then why do you act like…uh…”
“OH! Oh, you mean like a MAN!? So in order to be a ‘woman’, I have to conform to socially constructed gender norms? Are you even listening to yourself? IT IS THE YEAR 2016!, OKAY!?”
I can’t stop chuckling at all the backwoods, ignorant mentality of most of the people commenting on this article. I was against the hog plant but I’m starting to think it would fit right in. Do you naysayers really think a man is going to dress up like a woman just to get in the women’s restroom? What are they going to see behind a stall DOOR? Thanks for the laughs!
NO SIR THE HOG PLANT WILL ONLY AFFECT WALMART
THE MARIACHI MUSIC IN THE 5 DOLLAR BIN WILL COME IN HANDY!
TRUMP 2016!!
BUILD A WALL
Agreed get on the Trump Train or get run over!
Here is the answer to your stupid question: YES! It’s one less charge and plus it would be harder to charge them with a sex crime because now they identify as a woman. So the pervert says. Your going to have every up skirt peeping Tom, sexual molester in the woman’s or mans restroom trolling. So yes idiot. I’m joining the boycott of Target! Bad move, support the traditional family and not the sexually perverted Target! Losers!
WE HAVE DEALT WITH YOUR SHIT FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS!! ITS OUR TURN, GET ON THE SIDELINE!!
TRUMP 2016!! WOOHOO!!!!
TAKING OUR COUNTRY BACK!
THATS EXACTLY RIGHT!!
LEAVE THE FREAKS BEHIND!!
TRUMP 2016
Another reason to not got to target in Mason City anymore, political correctness is taking our country to hell im tired of the whiney fags that want to be equal, oh why cant we be equal? waah waah waah
go to hell.
TRUMP 2016
I wonder if Bruce Jenner still leaves the toilet seat up.
You already have a flaming fag working in the mason city one anyway
And you’re a flaming dumbass.
HaHa!! Whatever you say, I can’t stand having to hear a “guy” check me out at the register and talking like a f**king girl. Fire the fag
Your comment is just stupid. It’s the kind of crap that makes people hate people like you. Hate the sin not the sinner. I’m sure your a perfect person. I don’t want want men who identify as anything other than men in the men’s bathroom. I don’t want anyone but woman in the woman’s bathroom but I’m not going to pick on someone for any reason. Except you, you idiot. Boycott these stores and not the people.
Very simple, you had a birth cert. That’s how you were born, that’s what you are! Anything else is just your choice. Live with it
The amount of people that thing a transgender woman is going to throw out the ol’ penis in front of a child is what’s wrong with America.
There are just as many boys molested and raped by men as there is men vs. woman sex crimes. Being transgender doesn’t make you a pedophile. It makes you a strong person that wants to feel normal in a world full of disgusting rude people. I’ll gladly share a bathroom with any transgender man, woman or child.
It doesn’t make you a pedophile, but it certainly does make you abnormal and a freak. If you stupid people would stop enabling the freaks a lot of it will stop. Pretty soon that freak from Clear Lake will claim he is a transvestite just to get more attention. Freaks breed freaks.
“Freaks breed freaks” That is true, look at what the Trumpsters have spawned all across this country.
The Freaks are all Democrats.
All I can say is that most of you posting one here have no idea what you are talking about… The one thing you can always count on here is that stupidity, racism, bigotry, sexism and any other ism, will run rampant. I can see why many of the folks on here go for Trump. The research shows that he appeals to the majority of the people with an 8th grade reading level. When he picks a running mate it will just be the Dumb and Dumber show…
Exactly.
All you need now along with David, Lloyd and Allen is LVS to join in & the NIT Neanderthal group would be complete.
If ignorance were bliss, they would be the happiest people here.
art, all I did was ask a question but i guess people like you, with their head so far up their ass, have no clue whats going on. They would rather ignore what is going on than face the reality of it. You are right though, ignorance is bliss.
David, there is an old adage “there is no such thing as a stupid question”.
Well that is a false assumption as your question / comment was definitely stupid.
But then coming from you, such is to be expected.
Make no mistake about it “Art,” I am happy. I do not have a self esteem problem. I know who I am, where I came from and where I am going, and, how to get there. I have taken care of myself all my life, and have done what I thought needed to be done, and I have accomplished a lot. I’ve been around the world 3 times, been to countries most people will never go to, and seen things most people will never see. So, again “Art,” I am, one of the happiest people here. And if you don’t like what I have to say, and it upsets you, don’t read it, and if you do, you are the one that’s ignorant.
I have seen many of your comments on here Allen and with that said I can understand why you are so happy.
Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, but you are a happy tool.
A true transgender person is going to respect the gender he/she is associating with. People as people can respect each other. I am more worried about what you will do to them than what they will do to you or your family. And, by the way, I’ve never seen a ladies room with urinals!! What goes on in a stall seems pretty private to me. Doesn’t it work in reverse? Perhaps you guys will be sharing your restroom with someone who associates herself as male.
A.) You said, “you have never seen a ladies room with urinals,”
reason “you have never seen a ladies room with urinals”
1.) Women do not have a penis
males have a penis, why would it be “far” fetched for men using the women’s restroom to request urinals installed in thee women’s restroom
B.) Your concerns of safety, any man can go into any woman’s restroom in the U.S. and that is a green light to predators that is a safety issue for women and children.
C.) The psychological damage to a child’s mind seeing a male in a females restroom.
D.) Genetics do not lie, you must be opposed to the truth.
E.) Females who are sensitive because of prior abuse or because of their given right at birth to their sacred feminine, do not want any male in their restroom, and the intrusion of a male in or being able to come into the restroom they are using will cause psychological trauma.
F.) A generic approach to someone who feels they are a different gender, is selfish, others will be traumatized by self serving views, and they need to be considered also, on social norms in a civil society.
H.) Making others suffer because of one’s personal choice are coupled with the seeds of destruction.
Why would I go into a store that lets mentally ill people (say a 200 lb muslim male) hang his schlong out in front of my daughter because he THINKS he’s a kunt? SICK ! This is being forced on the American citizens by the sickos in DC.
Pretty sure the stalls have doors, moron.
Don’t let it hit you in the ass on the way in you freak.
Sounds like a lot of narrow minded adults and their bratty kids will no longer be shopping at Target! This is great news!!
Have fun shopping with the Wal-Martians!!
Yea ! And if a crossover wants to hang his girlie penis out in front of my 8 year old daughter thats okay because we the public are being brainwashed by the new world order = Sicko/perverts/pubic servants BS.
Seriously, are you people retarded?? Do they not have stall doors or what?? I’ve never walked into the mens room and seen a penis just flopping around for all to see. WAKE UP RETARDS!!
If a transgender male lives him life as a woman, what moron would think they are going to piss in a urine? Are you kidding me? Who cares, let people piss wherever they want. If a woman with a penis wants to take a leak in the stall next to me in the womans restroom as I take a sh!@, let her. If a woman brings her 4 year old boy into the restroom to go potty, he can piss next to me too. There are REAL problems in this world. If your biggest problem is someone with different chromosomes walks through the bathroom door, then you are lying to yourself.
Urinal*
Is Target also going to install “urinals” in the “women’s” bathrooms to accommodate men who decide they are women, what about the females born female witness/their “birth certificate”, that will be “traumatized” knowing a “male” can just come into their private space/restroom, Target is “pronouncing” those females do not matter, Target worships”Baal”.
I can see it now, as another can of worms is opened.
If a man says he thinks he is a woman just to use the ladies room, that means I can go in there with my daughter and granddaughter and stand guard outside the bathroom stall?
Knock yourself out.
Just make sure your Conceal and Carry Permit is valid then aim and shoot at the pecker. Problem solved………… its all legal.
You’ve been wanting to do that since middle school….one step closer to every teenage boys dream: coed locker rooms.
Sweet, now I can ogle people in the bathrooms.
Target must be desperate for business , but they just lost mine…..
No one cares about you anyways Lloyd.
You don’t use indoor plumbing anyway Lloyd. Just continue to go out behind the barn before you come to town and you will never know the difference. Target will be the first of many businesses who ain’t gonna stand there and watch you pee to determine if you are a hen or a hooster.