“last year, the retailer faced heavy criticism after it announced plans to remove some of its Pride Month merchandise from store shelves following a backlash against the products” - NPR
Related: Target Keeping Gay PRIDE Under a Bushel This Season - Daily Citizen
Target Adds Private Bathrooms to Quell Transgender Debate
Walker Wildmon, a spokesman for AFA, said Wednesday the organization is unsatisfied with Target’s response, calling the policy “basically a bathroom free-for-all.”
“Less than a week after Target, the nation’s second-largest discount retailer, announced that transgender customers may use the restroom that ‘corresponds with their gender identity,’ nearly 500,000 people have signed a #BoycottTarget online petition launched by the conservative American Family Association.” RNS
