{"id":1936891,"date":"2023-05-24T09:55:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T13:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsom-blasts-target-ceo-for-selling-out-lgbtq-community-after-retailer-pulls-trans-themed-merchandise\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:00:20","slug":"gavin-newsom-blasts-target-ceo-for-selling-out-lgbtq-community-after-retailer-pulls-trans-themed-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsom-blasts-target-ceo-for-selling-out-lgbtq-community-after-retailer-pulls-trans-themed-merchandise\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom slams Target CEO for betraying LGBTQ community by removing trans-themed products."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgavin-newsom-blasts-target-ceo-for-selling-out-lgbtq-community-after-retailer-pulls-trans-themed-merchandise%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1936891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>California Governor Accuses Target CEO of Betraying LGBTQ+ Community<\/h2>\n<p>Target, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-virtue-signaling-corporations-trying-to-prove-their-wokeness\/\" title=\"5 Virtue Signaling Corporations Trying To Prove Their \u2018Wokeness\u2019\">retail giant<\/a>, has come under fire for pulling some gay- and trans-themed merchandise from its shelves after facing customer backlash. The company had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsom-blasts-target-ceo-for-selling-out-lgbtq-community-after-retailer-pulls-trans-themed-merchandise\/\" title=\"Newsom slams Target CEO for betraying LGBTQ community by removing trans-themed products.\">aggressively marketed items including transgender swimsuits<\/a> in conjunction with Pride month, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paypal-value-down-6-billion-delete-paypal-searches-soar-1300-after-daily-wire-report-exposes-misinformation-policy\/\" title=\"PayPal Value Down  Billion, \u2018Delete PayPal\u2019 Searches Soar 1,300% After Daily Wire Report Exposes \u2018Misinformation\u2019 Policy\">customers reacted<\/a> with disgust, prompting the chain to first move Pride month displays to less prominent areas of some stores and then to pull some of the controversial merchandise altogether.<\/p>\n<p>California Governor Gavin Newsom accused Target CEO Brian Cornell of \u201cselling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists\u201d and called it a \u201creal profile in courage.\u201d He added, \u201cThis isn\u2019t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country. Wake up America. This doesn\u2019t stop here. You\u2019re black? You\u2019re Asian? You\u2019re Jewish? You\u2019re a woman? You\u2019re next.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CEO of Target Brian Cornell selling out the LGBTQ+ community to extremists is a real profile in courage.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just a couple stores in the South. There is a systematic attack on the gay community happening across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up America.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t stop here.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1vRgukaT0g\">https:\/\/t.co\/1vRgukaT0g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1661201623736287232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Target, which offers over 2,000 products as part of its Pride Collection, told Reuters on Tuesday that it was yanking some LGBTQ merchandise. According to the outlet, merchandise no longer available includes a sweater that read \u201ccure transphobia not trans people\u201d and a \u201ctoo queer for here\u201d tote bag.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince introducing this year\u2019s collection, we\u2019ve experienced threats impacting our team members\u2019 sense of safety and well-being while at work,\u201d Target stated, adding, \u201cGiven these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, only products with the LGBTQ brand Abprallen, a London-based designer of products that sometimes mixes imagery and messages about gender with the macabre, have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Target has come under fire after marketing other products including \u201ctuck-friendly\u201d and \u201cextra crotch coverage\u201d female swimsuits, \u201cgender fluid\u201d mugs, \u201cqueer all year\u201d calendars, and books for children as young as 2 years old that celebrate LGBTQ perspectives. The swimsuits were only marketed and sold to adults, according to a spokesperson for the company.<\/p>\n<h3>Related:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/target-slammed-after-offering-female-swimsuits-that-have-extra-crotch-coverage-are-tuck-friendly\"><strong>Target Slammed After Offering Female Swimsuits That Have \u2018Extra Crotch Coverage,\u2019 Are \u2018Tuck-Friendly\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>same-sex marriage debate, Newsom and others accused Target of caving to pressure from conservative groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1936892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[27486,3850,5985,5331,3678,12817,4307,3944,4650,27485],"class_list":["post-1936891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-betraying","tag-ceo","tag-community","tag-lgbtq","tag-newsom","tag-products","tag-removing","tag-slams","tag-target","tag-trans-themed"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1936892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}