I Miss Target!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually more concerned about people like OP who post on this forum. Your mind goes to some messed up places. Creepy.

Maybe you've never had an encounter with a weirdo before - someone who chased you or flashed you or peeked in your window. I think many women have had run ins with creeps before so it isn't some laughable imaginary fear for us.

I have! People like that don't care about store policies. They definitely don't care about store policies that have always been in place and are just being re-announced. You're dreaming if you think a changing room policy is going to affect lawless criminals.

Um, until this policy was "re-announced" for whatever reason it would have been weird to see a man walk into the ladies room. Now? Who knows.

Still weird to see a man walk into the ladies room. Not weird to see a transwoman, or a ciswoman who has short hair and wears a T-shirt and athletic shorts in the ladies room.

A transwoman dressed like a woman and acting like a woman is not going to stand out at all. A man walking into a ladies room is something different. I've never heard the term ciswoman, not sure what that is.

A ciswoman is a biological woman who identified as female. Probably most of us on this board are ciswomen.

"Cis" is the opposite of "trans." Transpeople have a gender identity that doesn't match their biological sex at birth. Cispeople have a gender identity that matches their biological sex at birth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually more concerned about people like OP who post on this forum. Your mind goes to some messed up places. Creepy.

Maybe you've never had an encounter with a weirdo before - someone who chased you or flashed you or peeked in your window. I think many women have had run ins with creeps before so it isn't some laughable imaginary fear for us.

Did these run-ins with creeps happen before or after Target announced that their dressing rooms continue to be non-gendered?

My daughters used a non-gendered dressing room just last week, at a store that has not made such an announcement. There were male-appearing people standing in the same line for the dressing rooms and probably even trying on clothes in the dressing rooms right next to my daughters! OP, would you like to know which store it was, so that you can boycott that store too?

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Anonymous wrote:You do realize that you and your daughter have more risk from white heterosexual males who use the men's room and are also boycotting Target, right?

Haha so true.

And not just any white heterosexual males, but most likely the white heterosexual males you know well or who are in your family.

But, hey, why let simple things like reality get in the way of a good fear-fest?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually more concerned about people like OP who post on this forum. Your mind goes to some messed up places. Creepy.

Maybe you've never had an encounter with a weirdo before - someone who chased you or flashed you or peeked in your window. I think many women have had run ins with creeps before so it isn't some laughable imaginary fear for us.

I have! People like that don't care about store policies. They definitely don't care about store policies that have always been in place and are just being re-announced. You're dreaming if you think a changing room policy is going to affect lawless criminals.

Um, until this policy was "re-announced" for whatever reason it would have been weird to see a man walk into the ladies room. Now? Who knows.

Still weird to see a man walk into the ladies room. Not weird to see a transwoman, or a ciswoman who has short hair and wears a T-shirt and athletic shorts in the ladies room.

A transwoman dressed like a woman and acting like a woman is not going to stand out at all. A man walking into a ladies room is something different. I've never heard the term ciswoman, not sure what that is.

A ciswoman is a biological woman who identified as female. Probably most of us on this board are ciswomen.

"Cis" is the opposite of "trans." Transpeople have a gender identity that doesn't match their biological sex at birth. Cispeople have a gender identity that matches their biological sex at birth.

More made up words from the left. Funny

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually more concerned about people like OP who post on this forum. Your mind goes to some messed up places. Creepy.

Maybe you've never had an encounter with a weirdo before - someone who chased you or flashed you or peeked in your window. I think many women have had run ins with creeps before so it isn't some laughable imaginary fear for us.

I have! People like that don't care about store policies. They definitely don't care about store policies that have always been in place and are just being re-announced. You're dreaming if you think a changing room policy is going to affect lawless criminals.

Um, until this policy was "re-announced" for whatever reason it would have been weird to see a man walk into the ladies room. Now? Who knows.

Still weird to see a man walk into the ladies room. Not weird to see a transwoman, or a ciswoman who has short hair and wears a T-shirt and athletic shorts in the ladies room.

A transwoman dressed like a woman and acting like a woman is not going to stand out at all. A man walking into a ladies room is something different. I've never heard the term ciswoman, not sure what that is.

A ciswoman is a biological woman who identified as female. Probably most of us on this board are ciswomen.

"Cis" is the opposite of "trans." Transpeople have a gender identity that doesn't match their biological sex at birth. Cispeople have a gender identity that matches their biological sex at birth.

More made up words from the left. Funny

It's in common enough use to have made it into the OED.

All words were made up a some point. English is a living language and evolves with society.

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More made up words from the left. Funny

"Cis" and "trans"? No, those words go back to the Romans. Remember Julius Caesar and his excursions into transalpine Gaul? I don't think he was a particularly notable lefty.

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Anonymous wrote:You do realize that you and your daughter have more risk from white heterosexual males who use the men's room and are also boycotting Target, right?

Haha so true.

And not just any white heterosexual males, but most likely the white heterosexual males you know well or who are in your family.

But, hey, why let simple things like reality get in the way of a good fear-fest?

That's your reality?

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I haven't read through all 14 pages but I just don't understand. Doesn't Target divide their clothing departments by gender? And doesn't each have their own dressing room? I don't understand why someone would cross over to the other side just to use the dressing room. Especially when there's one in their own section. Why even have a policy about it?

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Anonymous wrote:You do realize that you and your daughter have more risk from white heterosexual males who use the men's room and are also boycotting Target, right?

Haha so true.

And not just any white heterosexual males, but most likely the white heterosexual males you know well or who are in your family.

But, hey, why let simple things like reality get in the way of a good fear-fest?

That's your reality?

That's reality, period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read through all 14 pages but I just don't understand. Doesn't Target divide their clothing departments by gender? And doesn't each have their own dressing room? I don't understand why someone would cross over to the other side just to use the dressing room. Especially when there's one in their own section. Why even have a policy about it?

Not all Targets have separate dressing rooms. Some are centralized and unisex. And even those that don't - a trans woman is going to be shopping in the women's section, so she would go to the room on that side. Which OP has an issue with.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read through all 14 pages but I just don't understand. Doesn't Target divide their clothing departments by gender? And doesn't each have their own dressing room? I don't understand why someone would cross over to the other side just to use the dressing room. Especially when there's one in their own section. Why even have a policy about it?

Not all Targets have separate dressing rooms. Some are centralized and unisex. And even those that don't - a trans woman is going to be shopping in the women's section, so she would go to the room on that side. Which OP has an issue with.

Yup. OP wants transmen to use the dressing room in the women's section.

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I didn't realize Target had gender-segregated dressing rooms in the first place. DH and I have always used the same ones (not at the same time).

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More made up words from the left. Funny

"Cis" and "trans"? No, those words go back to the Romans. Remember Julius Caesar and his excursions into transalpine Gaul? I don't think he was a particularly notable lefty.

Thank you; I'm an organic chemist and am well aware of the origin of these words. But they are definitely made-up in the new-use sense.

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More made up words from the left. Funny

"Cis" and "trans"? No, those words go back to the Romans. Remember Julius Caesar and his excursions into transalpine Gaul? I don't think he was a particularly notable lefty.

Thank you; I'm an organic chemist and am well aware of the origin of these words. But they are definitely made-up in the new-use sense.

If you think that everything new is made-up, then yes, I guess that they are made-up. People used to complain about the made-up word "telegram" too. Things change, and the language changes with it; if it didn't, we couldn't communicate.

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Anonymous wrote:You do realize that you and your daughter have more risk from white heterosexual males who use the men's room and are also boycotting Target, right?

Haha so true.

And not just any white heterosexual males, but most likely the white heterosexual males you know well or who are in your family.

But, hey, why let simple things like reality get in the way of a good fear-fest?

That's your reality?

That's reality, period.

Cites, please.