McDonalds Employees Encourage and Videotape the Beating of a Trans Woman in Their Franchise

these mcdonalds employees should be fired... but why is everyone holding them to such high standards... they work at MCDONALDS... not the police department, not city hall, not a hospital... they make 7 dollars an hour at the shittiest job in the world... dont expect them to act with high integrity... fire em... so what... its not a career... its a fuckin mcdonalds job...

Every last one of the employees INCLUDING the Manger should be FIRED! The two hoodrats should be charged with several Felonies, and the the older lady should be given a commendation.

It's odd, I've never seen a transgender male use the men's room. The whole Transgender issue is confusing because of the way people explain it. It's like if I said, you know what..."I was supposed to be born a woman", then I start dressing like a woman, and am still attracted to women. That wouldn't give me the right to go into a woman's bathroom with a 5-o'clock shadow hanging on my face.

It's pretty simple. If you have a penis. Use the mens room. No penis, use the womens room. Pretty simple, and logical.

Also, McDonald's is not known for hiring the best and the brightest. They're known for cheap, fattening food, and jobs for people with little education.
You get what you pay for.

The fucked up thing about this situation, is had the transgendered girl gone into the men's room....there he/she also risked an ass-kicking.

Ignorant people react to the things they don't understand with either fear, or violence.

Separate and aside from the fight itself , society will not endorse a policy that allows any grown man with a dick who dresses like a woman into the womans bathroom. The reality is one of the basic precautionary measures we take for the sake of women and any children they may bring with them for there safety would be comprimised , that men and women separate there washrooms , sorry but the risks that open such a loophole will far outweigh the benefits to accommodate the less than .5 percent of the population who is actually transgender.

Transgender is not a visible minority , you cannot confirm a persons transgender status from looks alone , and with so many predators and deviants out there the risk is to too great to change the rules now. If its older than 8 and has a penis it should not be in the womans bathroom point blank period , if you want to campaign for a third bathroom than fine , but when im at chuck e cheese and a 300 pound man enters the bathroom in yoga pants , i will never feel comfortable letting my daughter go in there by herself , never! and i will not accept the notion that a person can simply identify themselves as a woman and gain access , especially with these predators going through the gammit to get certifications or diplomas to get access to work with young children , no one is going to accept comprimising the safety of all women for minoot amount of transgender people , there are so little transgender people that mathematically you can literally go decades or a entire lifetime without encountering a person of that particular sexual description.

If there are concessions for transgenders in society thats not one of em.

This is horrible! Nobody should be beaten up like this, especially if they're transgender. But it's even more disgusting that those people just watched and cheered on the attackers instead of trying to stop them. Those people who didn't do anything should get fired.

Doing nothing is not the same as encouraging an unlawful act. Many people choose to not get involved and that is a separate social issue. But actively encouraging a felony act should be, if it is not already, a criminal act in and of itself. Minimum action on McDs part would be to terminate all those involved, active in the assault, actively cheering, or passively watching and doing nothing. This would send the social responsibility message to everyone involved and all who have seen the video.

I see below there are still Neanderthals in our midst that think that such violence is an appropriate response. I hope it is nothing more than youthful ignorance and an inability to think on a higher level beyond brute force.

One other point here. There is a long established correlation between violence perpetrated by government and social violence. As one rises, so does the other. Out nation is currently involved in four wars - Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan an Libya, continuing to practice extraordinary rendition to torture and punish people without legal sanction, we maintain GITMO so that civil liberties can be denied, we are involved in teaching Latin American military officers how to terrorize their own populations [Fort Benning Ga], and of course we are involved in mistreatment of uncharged, not convicted people who 'may' have violated national security law [Bradley Manning], while not punishing others who have been convicted of serious national security crimes that have actually killed people [12+ Iraqi nuclear scientists and their families have 'disappeared] like Scooter Libby. Some in our society will see that if the government can act in such an arbitrary and violent manner, why can't they. The issue of sanctioned violence will continue to generate social violence as long as we allow the government to justify their actions with such broad excuses as 'national security.'

the employees or anyone was cheering these women onward should be ashamed of themselves,, maybe they were children and ignorant of what they were doing, how about McDonalds creating more than the 50k part time minimum wage jobs they are bragging about,,, hire 24hr security at all the stores,,, oh and pay them a living wage with good benefits and make it full time jobs...... not just jobs,,,, great jobs

This person suffered a head injury a life changing injury she will prob never be the same, once you start seizing from a head injury there is damage to the brain, even its its small, she will never be the same person. these girls should be locked away in some kind of boot camp till compassion and understanding is installed into them.. 24 hr pounding of what they have done to this person and how disgusting and repulsive their actions were. Then they should be made to do acts of kindness for this person for 5 years...

I am sorry for being ignorant about this , but , is "tran" short for transgender ?

The comments on this thread emphasize what I've assumed for some time: long after we achieve full Gay Rights, we'll be fighting a cultural battle for those who are transgender. And it will be a VERY long road indeed.... =(

There's plenty of blame here: the corporation, the franchise owner, the attacking employees, the employees cheering on the attackers AND THE PARENTS of these teens. The COMING TRAGEDY is everyone's energy will be spent minimising their own culpability.

I can't say that I'm ok with letting the real criminals off the hook and drawing all the attention to the employees. Yeah everyone that participated should just be put in a tiny box and treated like the baser animals they are, but if mcD's doesn't hire them. Then the company is being accused of discriminating applicants, or not hiring enough people or some other crap. I'm not normally on the side of any corporation but I think we should be more consistent as a society. Those employees could've been working for any remedial placement company period.

Horrifying that these young women have lost their humanity. It wasn't so long ago that being beaten and raped within marriage, for a woman, was just considered--marriage. Look how far we have come young women, now you, and your camera person, have empowered yourselves to torture another human. Great strides, so glad you are doing something with your new found freedoms.

On another note, living a life where the slave wages of McDonalds are the only access you have to the working world will continue to make a life of crime seem like a career choice. Every working person deserves a living wage and a fair chance and no segment of society, whether people of color or people who do not conform to old ideas about gender. Who is anyone to say how another person should understand themselves or their gender?

Our belief that some people should spend a lifetime working for slave wages and somehow remain a decent and responsible human being is unrealistic.

mspray11: Sure it is. They are some of the most passive aggressive bastards around. Thank God I moved to Texas. At least here there's good honest hating. These guys have no problem with speaking what's on there mind.

As for MickeyFleas, what do you get when the local manager doesn't even qualify for a GED, much less an IQ on par with meatloaf. Not the singer of coyrse

As for MickeyFleas, what do you get when the local manager doesn't even qualify for a GED, much less an IQ on par with meatloaf. Not the singer of coyrse

As for MickeyFleas, what do you get when the local manager doesn't even qualify for a GED, much less an IQ on par with meatloaf. Not the singer of coyrse

"Course". I hate cell phone keyboards.

"Course". I hate cell phone keyboards.

As for MickeyFleas, what do you get when the local manager doesn't even qualify for a GED, much less an IQ on par with meatloaf. Not the singer of coyrse

mspray11: Sure it is. They are some of the most passive aggressive bastards around. Thank God I moved to Texas. At least here there's good honest hating. These guys have no problem with speaking what's on there mind.

well i assume it is not McD's policy to encourage or endorse this fucking savage behavior, but they better terminate these miscreants asap.

Boycott McDonald's if you are one of those people who still eats there. Seriously, this sort of thing couldn't happen if they paid for real managers and didn't leave these restaurants staffed by teenagers and under-supervised barely educated people, just to increase their ridiculous profit margin. McDonalds needs to go, and take their crappy food and shitty employees with them.

Wow. This is horrendous.

Another page says the "trans" was actually a man dressed like a woman. The other women in the bathroom apparently didn't want to share the bathroom with a man, even if he was dressed like a woman... I can't say I disagree with the women's actions...

disgusting. Every employee needs to be taken out back & shot.

I say sue Mccrapper and then go after each of the people that watched and did nothing to help. i also signed the PETITION !

Horrible.

People always seems to lash out the hardest at the things they least understand. Gays and Lesbians are enjoying a steady increase in acceptance, but Transgender people are still openly made fun of, ridiculed, and abused......and society seems to accept it.