Transgender Woman Beaten Into A Seizure At McDonald’s

You know being racist is just as bad as being transphobic.

After reading the “story” on this video I expected an awful scene. After watching the video, I found the story to be a gross misrepresentation of the events in the video. MCDonalds employees DID make an attempt to break things up, the girls DID stop BEFORE the man/woman had the alleged seizure and the attack on the man/woman was PROVOKED by the man/woman. I feel very strongly that violence is never the “answer” to any solution, however, I find that this article promotes a spirit of spite and an unwarranted rally to the man/woman’s defense. The girls in the video should be ashamed that they lack basic self control. The employees perhaps should have called the cops because there was an obvious assault taking place. The entire episode was actually not caught on tape and viewers can only speculate the innocence of the man/woman. Why do we assume that the man/woman was beat because he/she was a man/woman? The man/woman caused the argument by using the wrong restroom (apparently). The employees had no duty to interfere with the assault other than to alert the police. The boy who filmed the violence no doubt regrets it because it was stupid to do so. By the way the man/woman is legally a man and always will be. You’re telling me the man/ woman couldn’t have lifted a finger to help himself?

It’s okay to assault someone because they could possibly be watching you pee.

Fantastic- good to know.

I had always assumed that it was what we had police for.

This post is full of such ignorance I can’t even formulate a response that isn’t a string of curse words. But let me try.

1) Last I’m aware, there are stalls for a reason. If a chick is peeing in the sink or something, I think anyone would be staring and wondering what their problem is.

2) Gender and Sex are two different things. She is of the FEMALE gender. While her anatomy may not match, surgeries aren’t exactly the cheapest and easiest thing to come about and can range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars and are painful and long processes that are sometimes not even worth it. Would you want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be able to call yourself a man like you know you are? NO? Well, I doubt anyone else would either.

3) It’s not an identity that’s chosen. If anyone would choose this path, well, they’re incredibly masochistic. It’s not an easy thing, it’s not a fun thing, and it’s certainly something nobody would choose.

I’m sure you wouldn’t want to be forced to use the girl’s room yourself, would you? I mean, you know you’re a man and someone is forcing you to go into the woman’s restroom. I’m sure you’d be pretty reluctant.

To begin with this post, I would just like to say that the victim of this crime’s name is Crissy. She has it states on her driver’s license that she is a woman (which, if you listen to the audio on the video closely, you will hear her say.) She has also undergone gender re-identification surgery, so your “if you haven’t cut your wang off yet” argument is a little void. But, hey, awesome, all right. You didn’t know. It wasn’t mentioned in the original blog post, so we will just say that you didn’t know and move on.

(See? I’m even making arguments in your favor!)

I identify as a lesbian woman. I often, however, dress is more masculine clothing (a shirt, tie, belt, even men’s shoes) to go out and about in everyday life. I have my hair cut short. In the right type of clothing, you cannot even see my breast-line. On some days, I can pass for a rather feminine looking boy. Yet, when I use the bathroom, I use the woman’s room. This is because I do not identify as a man, I merely enjoy dressing like one because I like the fashion and I enjoy how it makes me look. I have gotten more than one strange look from women in the rest room when I enter, but the worst I have gotten is a dirty look and whispered remarks when I am in the stall (great acoustics, those places have!)

The point I am trying to make here, though, is that I am still a lesbian, and I dress as a man. To suggest that Crissy was going to watch girls pee just because she was in the bathroom is like saying that I, an individual actually sexually attracted to females, was going to do the same thing. Now, I do not know how Crissy identifies herself as far as orientation is concerned, but I will say that I am almost certain that she did not dress up like a woman that morning with the intention of sneaking perverted looks at girls under the stalls of her local McDonalds’.

This post (and please correct me if I am wrong, and I will make any apology that will be due) suggests that this was not a hate crime since the girls were only trying to protect their oh-so-fragile dignities. Now, honestly, I was not there, but from what I hear tell, there was a verbal disagreement between the two girls (sorry, I do not know their names) and Crissy. They told her to get out of the bathroom because she did not belong there, and she verbally defended herself. This means, she had a chance to verbally explain herself. They had to have known on some level that she was transgendered. In knowing this, and in assaulting her for her gender identity, they labeled her as something that infuriated them, and they took it out on her physically.

This all could have been avoided by simply walking away. Complain about it to your friends later. Post about it on your blog. Fume over it, as insignificant as it is in your very busy life. But there is not need for physical violence. You seem to agree with that… What I am counter-arguing is that you seem to think that Crissy had it coming on some level.

So, Chad… Am I allowed to use the woman’s restroom?

Racist people existed prior to this hate crime, such as your European ancestors who enslaved my people for centuries. Read some history. I am a black woman (and a lesbian and an advocate of the transgender community) and you have lost your mind suggesting that black people are responsible for creating racist people. Black people did not create the racism of the British Empire that caused the systematic enslavement and murder of Africans in the colonies. The “ignorant” white people did that all on their own.

NEWS FLASH: WHITE people commit LOTS and LOTS of hate crimes. The KKK, skin heads, and many white supremacists are homophobic and transphobic.

Remember the two white dudes who killed Matthew Shepard?

Are you seriously going to say that the actions of two teenage girls has lowered your opinion of all black people? I know that you couldn’t be saying that, because you said that you are not racist, when that’s one of the assumptions that a RACIST would make.

In their defense, they DO make close to no money and all their peers were apparantly supporting the fight- even if ONE stepped in, they could have been scared to be attacked as well. Also in the manager’s defense, he tried in the beginning of the video and failed, then went off screen- I like to think maybe he called the police, because I have a little bit of faith in people still, even after this sort of thing happens regularly.

The idea that these people should lose their jobs is just sad- what, for being at the wrong place at the wrong time? Only those guilty of a crime should be punished, per the framework of America. Now I’m very very very supportive of the LGBT community, and a member, but I think you should watch that video again and see that someone else DID step in to help, and it’s not like the employees were over there taking bets and calling the winner. They just work at McDonalds and were scared of the group turning on them too if they stepped in.

For this comment alone I deeply respect you. It is nice to see someone who is directly affected by the bigotry wade through the propaganda.

I don’t believe that the color of someone’s skins defines their animalism–the violence they commit does. While it is certainly uncouth to make comments based upon race or butt-size, calling then bitches, animals and trash do not have to reflect their race, only their actions.

OK that’s just uncalled for and is helping nothing at all with that kind of hate. It’s stooping down to their level, which is not okay.

It wasn’t a man in the girl’s bathroom. She’s a woman.

(Also, even barring that, it’s not illegal to use the opposite gender’s restroom so there would be no crime even if she wasn’t a woman.)