Retail giant Target committed on Wednesday to installing single-stall bathrooms in all of its stores, in what appears to be an attempt to address objections to its policy of accommodating transgender customers. All but 20 of Target’s 1,800 locations will have the single-stall bathrooms by November and the remaining stores will have them installed in early 2017, Katie Boylan, a Target spokeswoman, told The Huffington Post. Target CEO Brian Cornell announced the company’s intention to ensure that all its stores had the bathrooms as far back as May, but it revealed its $20 million investment on Wednesday. The new single-stall bathrooms, which are by definition gender-neutral, seem meant to assuage the concerns of customers uncomfortable with this policy and will provide a third option for all customers. These critics argue that, among other things, the policy would enable transgender women to assault young girls in women’s bathrooms.

Source: Huffington Post August 17, 2016 20:50 UTC