Between Torment and Happiness
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: April 26, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/opinion/27dowd.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss# (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/opinion/27dowd.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss#)
April is the cruelest month for Chrissy Lee Polis.
The 22-year-old stopped by the Rosedale, Md., McDonald's, just east of Baltimore, last week.
Two patrons, an 18-year-old woman named Teonna Monae Brown and a 14-year-old girl, seemed to come out of nowhere and began ferally assaulting Polis.
The savage pair may have been disturbed at the prospect that Polis was transgender. "They said, 'That's a dude. That's a dude. And she's in the female bathroom,' " Polis told The Baltimore Sun.
I wish the author hadn't dragged Renee Richards into it.