A Sexual Predator’s Dream: Target’s Policy of Allowing Anyone to Access Women’s Bathrooms
Posted: 25 Apr 2016 05:55 PM PDT
GERI UNGUREAN APRIL 25, 2016The Olive Branch Repor
I
called our local Target store today and asked to speak with the
manager. When he picked up, I told him that I was very concerned about
Target’s stand on allowing anyone to access the ladies restroom.
I
could tell that his answer was scripted. He probably had a lot of
people calling, and most likely the corporate office sent a memo to
their store managers, telling them exactly what to say to people like
myself.
He said these words to me:
“Yes, we do allow transgender people to access the restroom in which they most closely identify. We at Target are very “accepting” of everyone, regardless of their sexual identity.”
I
said to him “Excuse me, but what if the person is not really a
transgender, but is a sexual predator, pretending to be transgender just
to gain access to the ladies bathroom? Do you not care about the
welfare of women and little girls?”
He
said to me that if I wanted to further discuss this, that I would need
to call the corporate office. He sounded angry at me. I told him that I
would never again step foot into a Target as long as I live. He said
that was certainly my choice.
From The Federalist:
A Rape Survivor Speaks Out About Transgender Bathrooms
Victimizers Use Any Opening They Can Find
I
read these reports, and my heart starts to race. They can’t be serious.
Let me be clear: I am not saying that transgender people are predators.
Not by a long shot.
What
I am saying is that there are countless deviant men in this world who
will pretend to be transgender as a means of gaining access to the
people they want to exploit, namely women and children. It already
happens. Just Google Jason Pomares, Norwood Smith Burnes, or Taylor
Buehler, for starters.
There
are countless deviant men in this world who will pretend to be
transgender as a means of gaining access to the people they want to
exploit.
While
I feel a deep sense of empathy for what must be a very difficult
situation for transgender people, at the beginning and end of the day,
it is nothing short of negligent to instate policies that elevate the
emotional comfort of a relative few over the physical safety of a large
group of vulnerable people.
Don’t
they know anything about predators? Don’t they know the numbers? That
out of every 100 rapes, only two rapists will spend so much as single
day in jail while the other 98 walk free and hang out in our midst?
Don’t they know that predators are known to intentionally seek out
places where many of their preferred targets gather in groups? That
perpetrators are addicts so committed to their fantasies they’ll stop at
nothing to achieve them?
Do
they know that more than 99 percent of single-victim incidents are
committed by males? That they are experts in rationalization who
minimize their number of victims? Don’t they know that insurance
companies highlight locker rooms as a high-risk area for abuse that
should be carefully monitored and protected?
Predators are known to intentionally seek out places where many of their preferred targets gather in groups.
Don’t
they know that one out of every four little girls will be sexually
abused during childhood, and that’s withoutgiving predators free access
to them while they shower? Don’t they know that, for women who have
experienced sexual trauma, finding the courage to use a locker room at
all is a freaking badge of honor? That many of these women view life
through a kaleidoscope of shame and suffer from post-traumatic stress
disorder, depression, dissociation, poor body image, eating disorders,
drug and alcohol abuse, difficulty with intimacy, and worse?
Why
would people knowingly invite further exploitation by creating policies
with no safeguards in place to protect them from injury? With zero
screening options to ensure that biological males who enter locker rooms
actually identify as female, how could a woman be sure the person
staring at her wasn’t exploiting her? Why is it okay to make her wonder?
What About Women’s and Children’s Rights?
“Wake up!” I want to scream. “Can’t you see what’s going on? Do something about it!”
Despite
the many reports of sexual abuse and assault that exist in our world,
there’s an even larger number of victims who never tell about it. The
reason? They’re afraid no one will believe them. Even worse, they’re
terrified of a reality they already innately know to be true: even if
people did know, they wouldn’t do anything to help. They’re not worth
protecting. Even silence feels better than that.
Survivors are terrified of a
reality they already innately know to be true: even if people did know,
they wouldn’t do anything to help.
There’s
no way to make everyone happy in the situation of transgender locker
room use. So the priority ought to be finding a way to keep everyone
safe. I’d much rather risk hurting a smaller number of people’s feelings
by asking transgender people to use a single-occupancy restroom that
still offers safety than risk jeopardizing the safety of thousands of
women and kids with a policy that gives would-be predators a free pass.
Is
it ironic to no one that being “progressive” actually sets women’s lib
back about a century? What of my right to do my darndest to insist that
the first time my daughter sees the adult male form it will be because
she’s chosen it, not because it’s forced upon her? What of our emotional
and physical rights? Unless and until you’ve lined a bathroom door with
a towel for protection, you can’t tell me the risk isn’t there.
For
me, healing looks like staring at the little girl in a Polaroid photo
and validating her need to be seen, heard, and protected instead of
hating it. It looks like telling my story, even the parts I can never
make pretty, in hopes it will help break the anonymity of survivors and
create a sense of responsibility in others to act.
Don’t Let Innocents Get Hurt Before You Rethink This
I
still battle my powerlessness to do anything that feels substantial to
affect change, but the good Lord didn’t bring me out of Egypt and set my
feet upon a rock so I could stand idly by in the face of danger. So
even if a little article or Facebook post doesn’t ultimately change the
world, it’s better than silent resignation to negligence and harm. I
feel a sense of urgency to invite people to consider the not-so-hidden
dangers of these policies before more and more of them get cemented into
place. Once that happens, the only way they’ll change is when innocent
people get hurt.
Consider the not-so-hidden dangers of these policies before more and more of them get cemented into place.
Even
if there aren’t hundreds of abusers rushing into locker rooms by the
dozens, the question I keep asking myself is, “What if just one little
girl gets hurt by this? Would that be enough to make people reconsider
it?”
“And
what if that little girl was me?” It’s a question I really don’t want
to ask. But God’s grace has enabled me to value the face in the photo
enough to realize that I have to. And even if I don’t like the answer,
at least I wasn’t silent. – source
Twenty-Five Stories Proving Target’s Pro-Transgender Bathroom Policy Is Dangerous to Women and Children
by WARNER TODD HUSTON23 Apr 20167,441
As the boycott of Target stores over its pro-transgender bathroom policy grows, the question of just who such a policy puts in danger is a natural one to ask. As these policies proliferate across the country, the number of stories of predators threatening women and children in public restrooms is also growing by the day.
The Target department store chain drew the ire of millions of Americans after it announced it
was opening its bathrooms to transgender shoppers and employees and
allowing them to choose whatever bathroom they feel like using at any
given time.
Days later a #BoycottTarget petition effort launched that drew over 200,000 signatures in a day and over 300,000 by the weekend.
The
current imbroglio should not be a surprise, as for years Target has
been a big purveyor and supporter of gay-friendly policies and causes.
So, this current bathroom policy issue is not the first time the chain
waded into left-wing issues.
On its corporate website, for instance, there are many posts and announcements celebrating the LGBT lifestyle.
Furthermore, last year, Target was a corporate sponsor of the “Out & Equal” conference, a summit aimed at forcing corporations into adopting gay-friendly workplace policies.
The company was also praised by gay groups for its “It Gets Better” campaign meant to boost the status of homosexuality in the U.S.
In
addition, Target raised the ire of many with its decision to
re-engineer its kids’ sections, when in August of 2015 the chain
announced it was eliminating “gender specific” labels and store signage for kids’ clothing and toy sections.
The radical homosexual agenda is not the only liberal issue Target has taken on. Two years ago the company demanded that customers “not bring firearms” into stores, despite legal concealed-carry laws saying gun owners may do so.
The company also has a long list of political causes and candidates it has donated to over the years.
Still,
in defense of such polices, liberals ask what harm could come to anyone
if bathrooms are opened up to men dressed as women, or others who claim
to be transgender? On the other hand, those who reject these policies
ask why the nation should put women and children in danger by allowing
predators to more easily enter and install video cameras in bathrooms
and changing rooms or otherwise threaten and harass people using the
restroom?
Target itself has had incidents of predators threatening children in its bathrooms. Only weeks ago such an incident occurred in a Cedar Park, Texas store.
But
there are dozens of such stories over the last 16 months or
so highlighting the problem with setting policies that would make access
to public restrooms easier for predators.
First
up are five incidents in which predatory men were discovered
committing criminal actions in public restrooms. Some of these men were
arrested while dressed as women; others claimed to be transgender women.
Seattle Parks and Recreation is facing a first-of-a-kind challenge to gender bathroom rules. A man undressed in a women’s locker room, citing a new state rule that allows people to choose a bathroom based on gender identity.A man dressed as a woman was arrested in Virginia on Monday after police say he was caught peeping into restroom stalls three times in the past year.Richard Rodriguez, 30, filmed a woman in a bathroom stall at the Potomac Mills Mall, Prince William County Police said on Tuesday. A 35-year-old woman was in the stall when she saw a bag moved toward her under the stall divider. Rodriguez apparently had been filming her, police said.PALMDALE – A 33-year-old Palmdale man who allegedly dressed as a woman while secretly videotaping females using a department store bathroom was charged with several misdemeanor counts Tuesday, authorities said.Jason Pomare was charged with six counts of unlawful use of a concealed camera for the purposes of sexual gratification, according to Sergeant Brian Hudson of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau.A biological man claiming to be ‘transgender’ so as to gain access to and prey on women at two Toronto shelters was jailed “indefinitely” last week after being declared by a judge a “dangerous offender.”Pro-family leaders are pointing out that this is exactly the type of incident they warned of as the Ontario government passed its “gender identity” bill, dubbed the “bathroom bill,” in 2012.The administration at the University of Toronto was recently enlightened on why two separate washrooms are generally established for men and women sharing co-ed residencies.
Here are nineteen more stories of predators using public bathrooms to criminally victimize women and children:
SMYRNA, Tenn. – Authorities believe a man arrested in Wisconsin filmed women inside Smyrna restrooms.William Davis was charged in Smyrna with felony especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor.A 24-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after a hidden cell phone was found recording video inside a Chapman University bathroom, police said.A female employee told campus public safety officials at 1 a.m. Tuesday she had seen a cell phone while inside a unisex single-person restroom in the Leatherby Libraries, said Lt. Fred Lopez of the Orange Police Department. The bathroom is located on the first floor Rotunda Commons.SAN JOSE – A private elementary schoolteacher accused of secretly recording people in the bathroom of his home was charged Wednesday with three misdemeanors, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.Authorities say the arrest Thursday of 31-year-old Andrew Donahue of Campbell was not related to his role as a teacher at Challenger School in San Jose. Donahue has been charged with three counts of taking photographs or filming someone who is in a bathroom or in a state of privacy, according to prosecutor Luis Ramos.HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A teacher, a school bus driver, and a high school student were among 16 people facing child pornography charges in New Jersey, authorities announced Wednesday.Thomas Guzzi Jr., 36, of Pitman... is also charged with third-degree invasion of privacy for allegedly hiding a tablet computer in a bathroom stall at the theater to record video of others using the toilet. A video found on his computer allegedly revealed him installing the camera.COLFAX, Wash. – A man was arrested after deputies believe he had been secretly filming multiple women using the bathroom. Court documents indicate the recordings were taken both in his home, as well as one of the alleged victim’s homes. The recordings dated back several years, according to court records.Michael A. Novak was arrested as deputies arrived with a search warrant for his home. His alleged victim’s said they knew and trusted him.MIAMI – Beyond the outer walls of La Perla, inside the women’s bathroom, is where a customer said she found a recording device facing the direction of the restaurant’s toilet.The woman was assisting her child in the bathroom off Southwest 152nd Street and Southwest 137th Avenue Saturday when, according to a Miami police report, she noticed a strange device tucked away under the sink.PERRYSBURG, OH – Police have arrested a 14-year-old student in connection to an investigation involving two teens from Perrysburg Jr. High School.The incident happened on March 18., after an alleged 14-year-old boy video-taped a 13-year-old student in the bathroom and forwarded the video to other students.A Maryland volunteer teacher and choir leader charged with sexual abuse and child pornography directed children in sexually explicit videos filmed in a school bathroom, according to court documents released on Tuesday.A security guard at a Long Island high school has been arrested, accused of taking video of a student going to the bathroom and posting it to Snapchat, police say.Police said at a news conference Wednesday that the guard at Roosevelt High School followed the 16-year-old boy into the bathroom and videotaped him in the stall from outside.WILTON MANORS, Fla. – A Wilton Manors man arrested on sexual battery and video voyeurism charges last year is facing additional charges after another victim came forward, authorities announced Friday.(MARTINSVILLE) – A former manager of the Martinsville Chili’s has been charged with allegedly videotaping eight women changing clothes or using the bathroom in the local restaurant’s restroom. His fiancée found the videos on a home computer and called police.40-year-old Justin Carl Behnke of Indianapolis has been charged with 15 felony counts of voyeurism.CORALVILLE, Iowa – A Johnson County man is accused of secretly videotaping dozens of men using the restroom at a Coralville business.A victim came forward to police Sunday morning saying he was using a stall at Scheels Sporting Goods at Coral Ridge Mall when he saw a man take a photo of him.LYNDHURST – The former fire captain and youth football coach accused of videotaping teen girls as they used his bathroom pleaded guilty Thursday to fourth-degree invasion of privacy, according to northjersey.com.SIKESTON, MO – A 19-year-old Sikeston man was arrested after allegedly videotaping at least three people in the YMCA men’s locker room.Earl Madison, a four-year, part-time employee of the YMCA of Southeast Missouri, is facing three counts of invasion of privacy in the first degree, according to the Sikeston Department of Safety.LOGAN COUNTY, Okla. – A man, 43-year-old James Curt Rose, sits behind bars for video-taping a 13-year-old taking a shower.According to court documents, the child said she saw a hole cut in a sleeve hanging in the bathroom.When she looked closer, she could see a phone in the sleeve that was recording.IOWA CITY, Iowa – UI Police Tuesday night said they had located the person of interest in connection with a man videotaping a woman while she was showering in a residence hall.MARSHALL COUNTY, AL – David Barrow, the former Guntersville girls’ soccer coach who pleaded guilty to human trafficking charges in Madison County, appeared in a Marshall County courtroom on Monday to enter a plea on charges of producing porn with minors.Barrow pleaded guilty to two counts of that offense around 10:30 a.m. He was sentenced to serve 30 years in prison.A Pennsylvania man who was arrested for taking photos of a 10-year-old girl in a public restroom has now also been hit with child porn charges, police report.Quarryville, PA, resident James Thomas Shoemaker, 19, was arrested last week when he was found hiding in a stall of the woman’s bathroom in the Sheetz store on Manheim Pike. Police said he was taking images of young girls on his cell phone.A man has been arrested after allegedly placing a hidden camera in a Starbucks bathroom in Brea, and recording at least seven adults, police said Tuesday.The arrest of Melcher Carrilloalvarado, a 44-year-old La Habra resident, was announced a day after police said a woman had found the camera in a unisex restroom at a Starbucks located at 101 West Imperial Hwy.
With
all these stories, it is also apropos to ask just how many Americans
these transgender polices would affect. By even the most generous
estimations only .3 percent of the nation claims to be transgender. So,
in the end, these extreme policies of bending over backwards for people
who claim to be transgender are designed for less than half of one
percent of Americans.
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