Anita Staver, the president of the radical anti-LGBT group Liberty Counsel, tweeted last week that people should boycott Target for its new policy preventing discrimination against transgender customers, adding that she plans to take her pistol into the restroom from now on:
The statement comes from a leader of the group that CBS News pointed to as one of the organizations behind North Carolina’s discriminatory new law targeting the trans community.
Staver’s husband and Liberty Counsel’s chairman, Mat Staver, gained national notoriety for his work on behalf of Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who attempted to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and has in the past advocated for the criminalization of homosexuality.
He has also claimed that allowing transgender people to use the restroom that matches their gender identity will result in sexual assault and “even death.”
