Florida woman vows to bring a gun into Target bathrooms after the company announces a trans-inclusive bathroom policy

Anita Staver/Facebook

Fusion on TV

‘Trump vs. Bernie’: Watch the shoutiest debate of the 2016 election

Donald Trump prepares to debate Bernie Sanders

Watch ‘Dirty Little Secrets,’ the Panama Papers Documentary

Rob covers business, economics and the environment for Fusion. He previously worked at Business Insider. He grew up in Chicago.

Last week, big-box retailer Target announced it would allow transgender employees and customers “to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.”
The company’s announcement follows the passage of North Carolina’s HB2—which bans transgender people from using bathrooms of their specified gender—and similar proposed “bathroom bills” in other states.
Now, one lawyer is taking her opposition to Target’s new policy to the extreme.

Anita Staver, the President of Liberty Counsel, a “religious liberty” advocacy group based in Orlando, tweeted late last week that she plans to take her Glock .45 “to the ladies room” at Target.
“It identifies as my bodyguard,” she said of the firearm.