A friend asked me a couple months ago if I thought Target carried some certain brand of phone. I told him “I don’t know. I don’t go to Target anymore, and I never will again.” He had vaguely heard of the American Family Association boycott, and knew it was about so-called “trans-genders,” but that was it. He asked me why, and this is roughly what I said to him.
When I was shopping with my daughter as a toddler, and she needed to go the bathroom, I checked the Men’s room to make sure nobody was there, walked her in, and stood guard at the door until she came out.
When my wife was shopping with my son as a toddler, she took him into the ladies room with her.
Any man who has been to a major sporting event or especially a concert, has seen the occasional brave lady use the men’s room because OMG the lines in the ladies room are insane!
These things have been going on all my life. It’s not a big deal, really.
So what, exactly, was Target saying with their “bathroom announcement” of April 19, 2016?
Reading between the lines of the announcement, what Target said was that it is perfectly fine with them if grown men use the ladies restroom if they want to do so. They have zero concern for the safety of their customers, especially young girls, in Target bathrooms. As Target stated in the Announcement, everyone “deserves to be protected from discrimination” and the safety of our children be damned.
I imagine this scene: My daughter comes running from the Target restroom screaming that there is a man in there. I catch the pervert and gently put him on the ground and call the cops. The cops get there and the grown man says, “no you misunderstood, I just felt a little feminine today!”
The cops let this monster go, and arrest me for assault.
That is why I will boycott Target forever. If they had announced that they were going to add additional “gender neutral” restrooms (with locking doors) to their stores, I doubt anyone, myself included, would have said a word. This was never about trans-whatever people. It was about the safety of our daughters, wives, nieces, mothers, and grandmothers.