Ask Matt Monday: Comments on the Maryland McDonald's Assault

April 25, 2011 by Matt Kailey

http://tranifesto.com/2011/04/25/ask-matt-monday-comments-on-the-maryland-mcdonalds-assault/

A few people have asked me what I think about the brutal attack on a trans woman by two other women at a McDonald's near Baltimore, Maryland, last week. A McDonald's employee filmed the attack, and the video is all over the Internet. If you have not yet seen it, beware – it is quite disturbing.

It seems likely that the victim was attacked, at least in part, because she is trans, although she has also told the media that one of the attackers accused her of talking to the attacker's boyfriend. One of the assailants apparently told police that the attack was "over using a bathroom."