The hashtag #BoycottTarget has topped Facebook’s top 10 trends for three days in a row from Friday through Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of Americans have signed the American Family Association’s (AFA) petition opposing the retail giant’s decision to allow men to use women’s changing rooms and bathrooms.
What began as a corporate statement of solidarity with LGBT activists has morphed into a public relations disaster for Target. On Tuesday, Target stated it “welcomes transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” Target added, “Everyone deserves to feel like they belong.”
Then the AFA launched its #BoycottTarget petition. As of Sunday, the AFA says 444,405 individuals have signed a pledge not to shop at Target.
Citizen comments across social media have highlighted the obvious myriad problems with allowing shoppers to self-define their gender. A core criticism has been whether predators will use Target’s transgender policy to gain access to bathrooms or changing rooms with the intent to video or assault customers.
“This means a man can simply say he ‘feels like a woman today’ and enter the women’s restroom…even if young girls or women are already in there,” states the AFA petition.
As Breitbart’s Warner Todd Huston has reported, video voyeurism remains a serious problem, and bathroom assaults are common.
The AFA says its #BoycottTarget initiative is about thwarting companies from imposing a progressive social agenda on the customers who determine their success.
“Corporate America must stop bullying people who disagree with the radical left agenda to remake society into their progressive image,” AFA President Tim WildAmon said.
Target’s Facebook page has exploded with comments condemning Target’s decision to allow men to use women’s changing rooms and bathrooms. Corporate responses to Facebook questions have, so far, parroted the embattled company’s original statement.
As recently as this month, a man in Cedar Park, Texas, was arrested for allegedly exposing himself to a 9-year-old boy inside a Target bathroom.
Listen to Sandy Rios of AFA discuss the Target boycott on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM:
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