Anti-Trans Activists Storm Target Shareholders Meeting

"[Target CEO Brian Cornell] doesn’t seem to get that he has offended the sensibilities of millions of Americans.”

From: NewNowNext

 We’re busy, you’re busy—it’s a busy time of year. But apparently the transphobic members of the National Center for Public Policy Research had nothing better to do yesterday than ambush Target executives at a shareholders meeting yesterday and harass them for supporting the company’s inclusive policy regarding allowing staffers and customers to use facilities that match their gender identity.

“Target has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately,” said NCPPR’s Justin Danhof. “When Target responded to the controversy over North Carolina’s so-called bathroom law by announcing that all Target restrooms are open to all comers, it needlessly entered a major national debate and offended millions of Americans, customers and investors.”

Danhof attended the shareholders meeting in Costa Mesa, California, and put forth a resolution “designed to question the wisdom of the retailer’s seemingly unnecessary foray into national legal and policy debates.”

It reads, in part:

Is it the company’s position that Americans who prefer to undress only near people of the same physical gender are bigots, the moral equivalent of racists? And second, since Target could have avoided most of this controversy, do you have any regrets about taking, as the financial analyst put it, “a hard-line stance” that, regardless of your intention, has made many Americans feel unwelcome at Target?

According to Danhof, board members and CEO Brian Cornell dismissed his agenda and reaffirmed Target’s support for the LGBT community.

Target’s shareholder meeting was appalling from beginning to end. Liberal corporate leaders such as Cornell throw around the words ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ so much they are starting to lose their meaning.

In addition to my question, two other shareholders also expressed concern over the company’s offensive bathroom policy. Cornell just kept repeating the same vacuous lines about diversity and inclusion. He doesn’t seem to get that he has offended the sensibilities of millions of Americans.”

When Cornell ducked my question, I followed up and urged the company’s leadership team to think hard about the fact that they are branding millions of Americans, potential customers and investors as bigots. Not a one of them had a response.

If you are offended by Target’s decision to allow grown men to be in states of undress in front of young girls, and at the potential for predators to abuse Target’s bathroom policy, the company is basically saying that they don’t want your business. That’s the message that I took away from today’s meeting.

It’s funny how anti-LGBT activists always claim they have a God-given right to discriminate, but they won’t leave anyone alone to be inclusive. And by funny, we mean disgusting.