No, a transgender woman in Georgia wasn't murdered while exiting a women's restroom. No, a transgender woman wasn't caught taking creepshots of girls in a Dallas bathroom. And no, Target isn't installing urinals in the ladies room.
All three of these stories have been reported and shared as fact in recent days as controversy around North Carolina's "bathroom law" continues to swirl — and all are hoaxes. In the case of the murder story, for example, the original article was posted on a fake news site, "Associated Media Coverage," and described a store which is not real while quoting people who don't exist.
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