By Mark Singer (Baltimore, Maryland) The victim of the vicious beating at a suburban Baltimore County, Maryland McDonald's last Monday evening spoke with reporters Justin Fenton and Kevin Richardson of the Baltimore Sun Newspaper.
According to the victim, 22 year old Essex, Maryland resident Chrissy Lee Polis, the attack was initiated because she wanted to use the women's restroom in the restaurant. Polis told the Sun:
RELATED: Video of the Interview:"They said, 'That's a dude, that's a dude and she's in the female bathroom,' " said Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, who said she stopped at the Rosedale restaurant to use the restroom. "They spit in my face."Ms. Polis said she had a sex-change operation to become a woman, and that this isn’t the first time she’s been picked on physically because of her gender identity, reported the paper.The attack which was filmed by a now fired worker of the restaurant shows two females — one of them a 14-year-old girl — repeatedly kicking and punching Polis in the head as an employee and a patron try to intervene. Others can be heard laughing, and men are seen standing idly by.Toward the end of the video, one of the suspects lands a punishing blow to the victim's head, and Polis appears to have a seizure. A man's voice tells the women to run because police are coming."I knew they were taping me; I told the guy to stop," said Polis, a resident of Baltimore. "They didn't help me. They didn't do nothing for me."
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I think the restaurant chain needs to take more responsibility too. A growing number of restaurants in Canada are now creating single occupant restrooms, which can be used by males, females, and handicapped person of either sex without any problems at all. This should be encouraged, if not legislated.
Of course the issue here is not really the restroom, but the attitude towards minorities, particularly transgendered people. I'm not really sure what the problem is, particularly in female washrooms, although some men's rooms leave a lot to be desired in terms of privacy, what with actual troughs being used. If things were changed around a bit, so that each person could 'do their thing' in private, we wouldn't even need separate facilities at all.
I suppose that there is some kind of fear about being seen by someone of the opposite sex, but that fear flies 100% in the opposite direction from the fear of being ogled by someone of the same sex. Well, morons, make up your minds, please. If you don't want to be looked at by someone of the same sex, why are you also reluctant to be looked at by the opposite sex? Maybe you don't want to be looked at at all, like me, but I'm fine with a partition within the same room.
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