{"id":130510,"date":"2016-04-28T16:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/why-just-target-target.html"},"modified":"2016-05-02T18:10:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:10:05","slug":"why-just-target-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/why-just-target-target.html","title":{"rendered":"Why just target Target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Target is under fire and, ostensibly, a boycott from a half-million conservatives over re-affirming its transgender-neutral policies regarding the workplace (and, gasp, bathrooms). But, as this article points out, if you&#39;re going to boycott Target for letting transgender women use the ladies room[1], then there are a lot of other sinful companies you need to be boycotting &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>[1] And transgender men use the gents, though nobody ever seems to get in an uproar over that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/26\/all-the-things-you-can-no-longer-buy-if-you-re-really-boycotting-trans-friendly-businesses.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Oon7VsCISdDqhCNBEQMli1jagBeYUiAFseWUy55DjWO9xnGLsEp4GbOWWc5Rr5W8eU7242jznbx7VQiVq94Ibn-fyks_lQoqP1vmQSoWvCzEftWewnHU3hlqTG1UtUWm8flJTLExm72tVWR3gcuj1popSRYYq9UA-1aKccLTkSMkstSJhTWuqNuUXCQOgUtiwEJ6rHvXWJ-3PyPeJnjydG7c-2LP_4NKgUgJoWy-vz6NmstjHe14XOfuNMS7vVUclx81YzhGR2GhWWc2bGVtHNDycr0x3s58mqMm1HIiwxybQtuFZEWp=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/26\/all-the-things-you-can-no-longer-buy-if-you-re-really-boycotting-trans-friendly-businesses.html'>All the Things You Can No Longer Buy if You&rsquo;re Really Boycotting Trans-Friendly Businesses<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMore than a half-million people have signed on to boycott Target for its transgender-friendly bathroom policy. But why stop there?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/9vN8HWc8FQ1'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target is under fire and, ostensibly, a boycott from a half-million conservatives over re-affirming its transgender-neutral policies regarding the workplace (and, gasp, bathrooms). But, as this article points out, if you&#39;re going to boycott Target for letting transgender women use the ladies room[1], then there are a lot of other sinful companies you need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/why-just-target-target.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why just target Target?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,25,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-gay-stuff","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131081,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/the-idaho-voyeur-case-doesnt-seem-to-prove-anything.html","url_meta":{"origin":130510,"position":0},"title":"The Idaho voyeur case &#8230; doesn&#039;t seem to prove anything","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Jul-16 3:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While I've already seen some crowing and\/or pontificating from the religious Right about this, it doesn't seem to make any sense in terms of any dire told-you-so threat having been \"proven.\" A transgender woman is accused (and appears to have confessed) to illicitly taking pictures\/video of another woman in a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133995,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/30\/boy-scouts-will-now-admit-transgender-boys.html","url_meta":{"origin":130510,"position":1},"title":"Boy Scouts will now admit transgender boys","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 30-Jul-17 10:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not to say the timing was at all influenced by current events -- this is something the BSA has been wrestling with this for a while now (and picked up some bad press on the subject last year) -- but given the confluence of Trump's disgraceful jamboree speech, and his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/us-military-will-enlist-transgender-people-1-january.html","url_meta":{"origin":130510,"position":2},"title":"The US military will enlist transgender people as of 1 January","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 3:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A third federal court has ruled there was no justifiable basis for the Pentagon to deny such enlistment, despite Trump's orders to do so. Equal protection under the law -- a Constitutional provision -- means the law cannot treat people differently without a compelling reason. None has been presented as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":134961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/06\/jeff-sessions-says-okay-fire-transgender-workers.html","url_meta":{"origin":130510,"position":3},"title":"Jeff Sessions says it&#8217;s okay to fire transgender workers again","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 6-Oct-17 2:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of course he did. Probably with a prayer on his lips and a song in his heart. The U.S. Department of Justice has reversed course on whether federal law banning sex discrimination in the workplace provides protections for transgender employees, saying in a memo that it does not. 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It does, though, make it clear that the Defense Dept. cannot pay for any medical care regimens for those\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/unnamed-7-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130554,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130510\/revisions\/130554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}