Canfield couple target Target's restroom policy

BOARDMAN

A Canfield couple stood along a busy stretch of Boardman-Poland Road on Saturday, protesting what they say is an unsafe bathroom policy at Target stores.

“A lot of people are simply unaware of the policy,” said Monica Williams, 31. “We’re out here targeting people who are headed to Target to do their back-to-school shopping, to get the word out to the ones who don’t know.”

She was referring to Target’s corporate policy of allowing transgender men and women to use the bathrooms and changing rooms of the gender with which they identify in all Target stores. The policy has stirred controversy and spurred the American Family Association to call for a nationwide boycott of Target stores.

Williams and her husband, Julio, 36, who stood near the entrance to Boardman Township Park, are the parents of two young children and were the only ones protesting Saturday in Boardman.

Read more about their concerns and local officials' reaction in Sunday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.