Petco Customer Rages at Gender-Neutral Bathroom in Video: 'This Is Stupid'
TikTok video showing a man lose his cool in the retail chain Petco when he saw a gender-neutral bathroom in one of its stores has stoked a familiar culture-war debate online.The viral video, which was posted to TikTok on Sunday, shows a man seemingly yelling at Petco employees for there being a gender-neutral bathroom in the store. "This is stupid, people are not putting up with that c***," the unidentified man says in a raised voice.
When the store employee suggests that the customer share his views with the manager, he replies, "I just did, she just told me my opinion didn't matter." He then tells the worker to "stop with the gender-neutral s***.
Men and women are different."As the man leaves, he suggests that the employee passes his views "up the chain." At this point, another store worker says the unhappy customer "needed to leave."The viral video comes amid sweeping new laws targeting transgender rights across the United States.
Kansas was recently ground zero in the fiercely fought culture war, enacting one of the most restrictive transgender bathroom laws in the country.In perhaps a telling microcosm of debate raging around the U.S., Laura Kelly, the state's Democratic governor, blocked the Republican bill from the state legislature, only to have her veto overridden by a two-thirds majority.
