This City Took Action After Target Announced Its New Bathroom Policy, Will They Be the First of Many?

Bob Eschliman : Apr 29, 2016
Charisma News

"Individuals who use public facilities do not reasonably expect to be exposed to individuals of the opposite sex while utilizing those facilities..."

After Target announced its policy changes regarding the use of bathrooms and changing rooms, the Oxford, Alabama, city council took action. (Photo via Flickr)

Oxford, Alabama, is a small community of roughly 21,000 people that has seen rapid growth in the past 20 years.
 
As it has grown, the community has attracted a number of new service-and retail-oriented businesses to serve its growing population. Among those was the arrival of a Target store less than 10 years ago.
 
So when the Target retail chain announced it was changing its policies to allow any person to use the bathroom or changing room of his or her choice, the Oxford City Council took action. It adopted an ordinance to limit bathroom use to those that match the sex on a person's birth certificate.
 
"Individuals who use public facilities do not reasonably expect to be exposed to individuals of the opposite sex while utilizing those facilities," the ordinance reads. "Single sex public facilities are places of increased vulnerability and present the potential for crimes against individuals utilizing those facilities which may include, but not limited to, voyeurism, exhibitionism, molestation, and assault and battery."
 
The ordinance provides exceptions for the parents of children under the age of 12, and for those who are caregivers to people with disabilities. However, violating the new ordinance is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500 and up to six months in jail.
 
The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT "rights" advocacy group, blasted the new ordinance, calling it...
 
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