Reactions to Target's announcement that transgender employees and shoppers can use the restroom or dressing room that matches their gender identity has sparked talk of a boycott.

Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl, who earlier referred to the possibility of "street freaks" ogling women or assaulting children in relation to laws allowing transgender people to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, said he would no longer shop at Target.

"Well welcome to Corporate America! Target is helping these predator's dream come true. If you don't like it, there is only one thing Corporate America understands "the ring of the cash register"! Never again will I step into another Target! We need to be following our moral compass not some politically correct corporation," Carl wrote on his Facebook page.

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert echoed those sentiments.

"If they're going to be having women come to men's restrooms, I won't be going to Target to shop, unless and until that changes," Gohmert said, according to The Hill. "Here we are, at the place in our history where insanity in the name of political correctness rules the day, common sense no longer common."

Gohmert said he thought the law would make it easier for sex offenders to harass children.

"There will be people that do that," Gohmert said. "Why not let the transgender, LGBT,Q,R,S,T -- whatever the initials are -- let them have their activities where they don't impose upon the privacy of someone who wants to go to the restroom or shower without someone from the opposite sex being there with them."

Target Corp. announced this week it would allow transgender employees and shoppers to use the bathroom or dressing room of their choice. The announcement was the first of its type by a major U.S. retailer and comes on the heels of laws in Mississippi and North Carolina that required people to use the bathroom that's stated on their birth certificates.

The measures have been sharply criticized by civil rights groups who said they lead to discrimination against LGBT people.