Transgender Teen Files Complaint Against McDonald’s

[Hudson]

Originally Posted by Linus

Actually, McD's fired the manager. See this thread: http://www.butchfemmeplanet.com/foru...read.php?t=493

They did the right thing while the manager (or employee) did the wrong thing.

Yeah, I read the article Linus. Thank you. (sorry I didn't see your thread - I did do a search). My post after the OP was a joking jab at the situation, not McDonald's. (Florida and no federal ENDA are to blame here) He actually wasn't even a manager and had no authority to hire. And it's great they fired him BUT what are they going to do now? Will they hire her? Give her a settlement? Or will they fight with her? We don't know that yet. I have been searching for McD's non-discrimination policy and I can't find it and I have yet to come across anything that says it specifically names transgendered people or gender identity within it. (If anyone has an employee manual or can find this info, please enlighten us).

[NotAnAverageGuy]

I am not totally positive but I have had friends that worked for mcd's and they say they don't discriminate based on gender, race, sexual orientation, etc etc, there is no clear terms on Trans folks

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Hudson

Yeah, I read the article Linus. Thank you. (sorry I didn't see your thread - I did do a search). My post after the OP was a joking jab at the situation, not McDonald's. (Florida and no federal ENDA are to blame here) He actually wasn't even a manager and had no authority to hire. And it's great they fired him BUT what are they going to do now? Will they hire her? Give her a settlement? Or will they fight with her? We don't know that yet. I have been searching for McD's non-discrimination policy and I can't find it and I have yet to come across anything that says it specifically names transgendered people or gender identity within it. (If anyone has an employee manual or can find this info, please enlighten us).

You know, if I was her and went through this, I wouldn't want to work for them. At this point, she has been forced to publicly out herself on a national level. I'd imagine (based on the responses to the YouTube video she posted) she'd get even more personal hate comments (not something you need or deserve when doing a job of any kind).

I'm hoping that they do some kind of settlement so she won't have to endure this elsewhere. As far as McD's non-discrimination policy it doesn't have anything. And reality is that it's the state level laws that they'd have to abide by (which means she technically has no protection as a trans individual but would have protection under other mechanisms).