Retailer Target says transgender people can use bathroom of their choice

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Retailer Target says transgender people can use bathroom of their choice

By Nathan Layne
April 19, 2016

(Reuters) - Target Corp said on Tuesday that transgender employees and customers could use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, becoming the first big retailer to weigh in on an issue at the center of a heated national debate.

The move came after North Carolina last month became the first U.S. state to require transgender people to use restrooms and changing rooms in schools and other public facilities that match their sex at birth rather than their gender identity. Lawmakers in some other states have also floated similar laws.

The law in North Carolina does not affect private-sector businesses, which are free to set their own policies, Governor Pat McCrory said in issuing an executive order related to the measure earlier this month.

Backers of the legislation in the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature say it is meant to protect privacy rights and keep children and women safe from sexual predators.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/retailer-target-says-transgender-people-bathroom-choice-001322045--finance.html?nhp=1

[George II]

1. Good for them.

[Skittles]

2. "safe from sexual predators"

uptight, sanctimonious repukes are more a threat to women and children than transgender folk who need to use the restroom

[cynzke]

3. If They want to protect women and children from sexual predators, then

Write the law, saying that. It shall be illegal for anyone to disguise themselves to enter a bathroom/locker room for the purpose of stalking, harassing, peeping and/or attacking other occupants for sexual pleasure. You will be charged based on the nature of your crime as a peeping tom, child molester, sexual predator/offender. Direct the law at the true nature of the perpetrator. Not at gender identity.

[yardwork]

4. That's already illegal, as confirmed by the NC Attorney General.

The law that Charlotte passed did not endanger anybody. All laws protecting people from assault, etc., were still clearly in force. Rather, the law that Charlotte passed protected a vulnerable group of people - transgenders - who are at much greater risk of assault in bathrooms than anybody else.

HB2 is a cynical lying bigoted attack on a vulnerable population, used as an excuse to grab power from local communities in NC.

Thank you for pointing out one of the logical fallacies in HB2. If the lawmakers had really wanted to protect people, they would have written a very different law.

[Liberalagogo]

12. A solution:

[Bohemianwriter]

13. Haha!

Now THAT'S a bathroom arrangement I'd like to see...

[Skittles]

23. TRUE, DAT

[IronLionZion]

29. More Republican US Senators have been arrested for sexual misconduct in bathrooms

than transgender people



http://jesusnorepublican.org/+Reasonable/gopimmorality.html

And here's some who have fondled young girls:

https://whyweprotest.net/threads/handy-list-of-american-republican-party-sex-offenders.125246/

[Dopers_Greed]

5. Love this!

I bet now those big gubmint Repugs will try and step in and tell businesses that they can't run their own restrooms how they want

[SoapBox]

6. This...

Would not even surprise me.

[liberalnarb]

7. Cool. Doesn't surprise me though.

Target is a corporate partner of the Human Rights Campaign

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. Is everyone supposed to carry their birth certificate?

That's what is so nuts. Plenty of people don't have a copy of their BC and even those who do don't carry it with them.

[MillennialDem]

11. Plenty of people don't have a birth certificate at all, and many states do not allow trans

people to change their birth certificate AT ALL. Or they require one to undergo sex reassignment surgery before being allowed to change the BC.

[NYC Liberal]

15. Even if they did, what would they do with Shaun Stinson?

His birth certificate would say Female (if it hasn't been changed), but something tells me they wouldn't want him using the women's restroom.

[TexasBushwhacker]

22. Exactly n/t

[Justice]

9. See how simple that was..

Thank you Target.

[LuckyLib]

10. Folks on an airliner don't get too worried that someone of the other gender has used

the restroom. Unisex. It's what works.

[hibbing]

14. When will the boycott by bigots start? n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. Oh they already have

The American Family Association started a petition and they have already gotten almost 200K signatures. Meanwhile, I would feel a bit uncomfortable if Shawn Stimson was in the ladies room, wouldn't you?

[Unicorn]

16. Thank you, Target!

[PBass]

17. Wow, how totally normal! Glad that Target understands that these bathroom bills have

been a stupid solution to a non-existent problem.

[Chico Man]

18. But Target is a corporation!

We should hate them no matter what!

[They_Live]

19. I've been thinking about this issue...

and seems like people use the bathroom of their choice anyway.

[liberalnarb]

20. They've always been an ally

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

21. My favorite bathrooms - in the front of the stores

with lots of people milling about. They always feel very safe. (And I'm fine with transgender people using the bathroom they gender identify with.)

Some store bathrooms are in the backs of stores, down narrow deserted hallways or not near any other people. As a woman, I don't ever feel completely safe using them.

[hibbing]

27. As someone else posted in regard to the NC law..

It's not about the bathroom.

Peace

[lancer78]

28. Should this woman

really be legally forced to use the Men's restroom? I think that might be dangerous for her.

http://celebrity.money/candis-cayne-net-worth/

[TexasBushwhacker]

31. And how many women would run screaming

When this trans man was in the ladies room?

[Alkene]

30. Target is WalMart with better PR, as demonstrated.

Having been employed there recently, I can personally attest to the working conditions.

[TexasBushwhacker]

32. But Target isn't largely owned and controlled

by a single, greedy family.

[Akicita]

33. Charlotte's law and Target's policy are discriminatory in that they both set up special rules that

only apply to the trans community. Gender neutrality, on the other hand, is equal rights for all.

At one time, blacks were discriminated against in a similar fashion by being barred from using "whites only" bathrooms. The solution was not to pass laws that set up special rules that only applied to blacks that allowed blacks to choose whether they wanted to use a "Whites Only or Colored Only" restroom. The problem was solved by doing away with race segregated restrooms period. Equal access for all. The same needs to be done for gender segregated restrooms.