Transgender teenager sues McDonald’s

Date: 2009.12.13 | Category: Current | Tags:

Zikerria Bellamy is a 17 year-old male who’s been living as a female for about the past six years. According to a complaint, filed by the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, the teenager applied for a job at a McDonald’s restaurant in Orlando. It’s alleged that two managers at the branch refused to give Miss Bellamy an interview and on one occasion a manager saw the teenager, who arrived wearing a suit, and laughed at her. The complaint goes on to claim that one of the managers later left an insulting voice message on Miss Bellamy’s answering machine. It’s alleged the manager used a gay slur and informed the teenager that she’d never be given a job. A spokesman for the branch here in Florida said that McDonald’s had a zero tolerance policy prohibiting discrimination or harassment. Most US states don’t have laws that specifically protect transgender people in the workplace.

I just couldn’t believe this could happen I mean the transgender part. In my country, transgender is prohibited and it against the country law and also our religion forbidden us to do so. The citizen also will not accept this kind of people and that’s why they have their own group (with the same kind). But I think it is our responsibility to guide this people so that they can choose the right path in their life. May God open up their heart.