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The Target department store chain has made itself infamous for announcing that it will allow transgender people to choose whatever bathroom they want to use at any given time, even though the chain already has many problems with sexual assaults in its stores.

President Barack Obama may use a new courtroom decision to effectively eliminate single-sex bathrooms in K-12 schools around the nation, says groups lobbying to increase the social and legal status of “transgender” people who want to live like people of the opposite sex.

Target is sticking with its plan to open all of its single-sex bathrooms and changing rooms to members of the opposite sex, despite a public boycott and a new poll showing growing public support for single-sex bathrooms.

Planned Parenthood tweeted a link to a Daily Beast column that claims “Trans Suicide Hotline Calls Double” after North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill into law that affirms the long-standing public expectation that men should use men’s bathrooms, and women should use women’s bathrooms.

Just as North Carolina is being pressured to eliminate its recent religious freedom bill, the legislature in neighboring South Carolina is considering a similar bill of its own. Just like North Carolina, many are lining up in opposition, and in the Palmetto State, the Chamber of Commerce is leading the charge to stop the bill in its tracks.

British rock band Mumford and Sons is apparently making good on its pledge to donate all profits from its April 14th show in Charlotte, North Carolina, despite other artists boycotting the state over its law about transgender bathroom usage.

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.

Welcome to life in totalitarian America, where even going to the bathroom and identifying the sex of an adult have now become intensely political acts.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a GOP presidential candidate, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, slammed his chief rival and the party’s frontrunner billionaire Donald Trump over Trump’s comments on the bathroom law in North Carolina. Trump said he opposed

A backlash is growing against retail giant Target Corp. after its announcement this week that it will allow men who claim to be transgender to use whichever bathroom they choose while shopping or working at their stores. But after two days of a social media firestorm, forces are now gathering to #BoycottTarget over its bathroom policy.

Curt Schilling, the ex-Boston Red Sox ace pitcher, appeared on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM 125 The Patriot Channel with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon on Friday morning to make absolutely clear he is not backing down to the left over his transgender bathroom comments.

The British government has issued a warning to “LGBT travellers” that they “may be affected” by bathroom privacy laws in conservative US states. They recommend citizens go to a Hillary Clinton-supporting lobby group, campaigning against the laws, for more information. Published today by the British Foreign

This week a federal court sided with a transgender student who insisted that the Obama administration’s reading of federal Title IX rules would allow her to choose her own bathroom at her Virginia high school. Gavin Grimm, 16, a student

The Target department store chain has jumped into the transgender bathroom debate by declaring that men who claim to be women may use whatever bathroom or changing room they choose.

Rocker Eddie Vedder explained his band’s decision to cancel a concert in North Carolina over the state’s “bathroom law” and dedicated a song to “all the soldiers in the LGBT community” during a Pearl Jam show in Hampton, Virginia on Monday.

Production crew members working on Amazon’s original transgender series Transparent are uncomfortable after management made all bathrooms on the set gender neutral — particularly women.

Pearl Jam has cancelled a concert in North Carolina in opposition of the state’s newly passed Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act — which requires individuals to use the public restroom that corresponds with their biological gender. In a statement announcing the cancellation of an April 20 show in Raleigh, the band described the new legislation as “despicable.”

Rock group Boston announced Monday it has canceled three upcoming shows in North Carolina in protest of the state’s “oppressive” and “discriminatory” Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act — or “bathroom law.”

Canada-based circus and theater entertainment company Cirque du Soleil has canceled its upcoming shows in Greensboro, Charlotte, and Raleigh in North Carolina to protest the state’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.

After he canceled a Sunday concert in North Carolina to “fight against prejudice and bigotry,” rocker Bruce Springsteen condemned Michigan lawmakers planning to pass a law similar to North Carolina’s Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is backing North Carolina’s new bathroom privacy law, which prohibits individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has signed an executive order that he says serves to “affirm and improve” his state’s “commitment to privacy and equality” in the wake of a new “bathroom” privacy law.

Michael Moore joined rocker Bruce Springsteen and other celebrities in boycotting North Carolina after the state passed a religious freedom law that some have slammed as discriminatory against transgendered persons.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that he appreciates corporations weighing in against “bathroom bills” in states like North Carolina, but doesn’t want a situation where “politicians will be elected who represent the wealthy and the powerful” due

A Kroger grocery store in Georgia is taking criticism after posting a sign defending its unisex bathroom policy.

Freeform network, formerly known as ABC Family, is developing a drama series that follows a transgender student’s fight to use the girl’s bathroom at school.

The Wachowski brothers, the filmmaking duo behind The Matrix trilogy, became the Wachowski sisters on Tuesday. Larry Wachowski, 50, came out as transgender and began going by the name Lana in 2012. Larry’s brother, 48-year-old Andy Wachowski, announced on Tuesday he

A straight, biological man is a hot favourite in the race to become the National Union of Students’ (NUS) Women’s officer. Anna Lee describes himself as a “queer trans disabled lesbian woman”, and is currently the LGBT officer at Lancaster

Nearly three dozen religious colleges and universities in 20 U.S. states have received federal waivers allowing them not to accommodate transgender students in admissions, housing and other areas of campus life, according to a report by the nation’s largest LGBT rights group and documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The British Government’s ‘conservative’ Minister for Women and Equalities, Nicky Morgan, today announced two new sets of guidelines demanding special treatment in private business for both transgendered employees and customers. The documents encourage business to change their “culture”, allow people

The Conservative MP leading the British Parliament’s “Transgender Equalities Inquiry” has promised the recommendations of her committee, which are currently being written, will be “radical”. Of the hundreds of pieces of evidence submitted, only seven were critical of transgender ideology,

Britain’s House of Commons could have transgender toilets in the near future, despite the fact there isn’t a single transgendered Member of Parliament (MP) or staff. Conservative Speaker of the House John Bercow has hired a professor of gender and

Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized the opposition to Houston’s recently-rejected non-discrimination ordinance as based in “fear” and “anxiety” and dismissed the “bathroom issue” as “totally without merit” at MSNBC’s Democratic candidate forum on Friday.

The pro-life and pro-family base of the Republican Party is celebrating following both gubernatorial elections Tuesday and the defeat of Proposition 1 – the “gender identity” bathroom bill – in Houston.

HOUSTON, Texas — Houston Texans owner Bob McNair, and former Houston Astros and six-time MLB All-Star player Lance Berkman, are opposing an ordinance that would allow transgendered men to use women’s restrooms in Houston. The ordinance has been dubbed by the chairman of the Harris County, Texas, Republican Party as “Mayor Parker’s Sexual Predator Protection Act.”

Presidential hopeful and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum showed some support for Bruce Jenner at the South Carolina Republican Party’s convention Saturday.