Reportedly hospitalized in “satisfactory” condition.

I have several points to make, so please bear with me.

First, I disagree with you including “Gays” as one of the categories. I fail to see how that has anything to do with what you wrote or what was in the video.

Second, although some men who dress as women (and vice versa), such as Eddie Izzard, still use the term “transvestite”, it has come to have so many negative connotations that, depending on where a person is on the broad spectrum of gender, many refer to themselves as transgendered (TG, which is the “T” in GLBT) or crossdressers (CD) instead.

Next, it seems like the biggest problem the attackers had was that the victim wanted to use a gender-segregated restroom they felt was not appropriate. This could very easily be solved if we, like many other countries, simply stopped putting gender signs on bathrooms and took the urinals out.

Finally, I disagree that this was in any way racially motivated, but I also disagree that there should be any such thing as a hate crime. I realize that you were not arguing for or against such a category but merely stating the possibility of such charges, but as long as people are called out in laws as protected classes (whether they be discrimination laws, bullying laws or hate laws), they inherently set themselves apart as different. Whatever the maximum punishment for a “hate crime” is should be the maximum punishment for that same crime perpetrated against anyone. Equal rights should always be equal.

“Next, it seems like the biggest problem the attackers had was that the victim wanted to use a gender-segregated restroom they felt was not appropriate. This could very easily be solved if we, like many other countries, simply stopped putting gender signs on bathrooms and took the urinals out.”

What a dingbat!
Your a bigger threat to our society than those two perps!!

Does it really matter who it was? Geez enough with the little boxes, beating the life out of anything is disgusting and wrong. Who are these people that are so angry they have to almost murder someone? I see what the establishment games that have been played starting to bubble up. What these progressive evil things have done to people will come back at them hard, all is being exposed, God help us.

Bryan Preston is right, this is pretty sick any way you cut it. And I would take any statement from the videographer with a mountain of salt, he has an interest in minimizing his legal liability.

Finally, I disagree that this was in any way racially motivated,

The HELL it wasn’t!

If that would have been a black gay man or tranny and two white girls or guys had been beating them, it would have been all over. But because it was two jiggaboos it didn’t fit the narrative. Hence the silence in the media.

That’s right mother fuckers, I called them two black bitches damned Jiggaboos. We be’s, Porch Monkeys, boot lips — all the same. Those were not upstanding black girls. Those were Negro Thugs, like the kind that live here in Detroit. Like the kind that I won’t allow in my neighborhood.

Time to get real people, know your enemies and shoot them, if need be.

I’m local to the D.C. area.

Transvestite prostitutes, black or white, are not well received in the black community. It just so happens that this particular beating was caught on film. Such beatings, perhaps not quite a serious, occur on a regular basis in the greater D.C. area, particularly in downtown D.C. and Baltimore.

Just sayin’.

“the crime is more than mere assault. ”

Only because the actual crime is assault and battery. Might even rise to attempted murder. But unless the attackers can prove it was in some way justified (self-defense, etc.), I couldn’t care less why they did it, and it’s about two steps to “thoughtcrime” to try to prove otherwise.

Well, then they can just deal. No one says transvestites have to be invited to dinner, but they have the same right to use the street as anyone else, and if beatings like that happen on a regular basis, then some extra law enforcement effort is called for.

Maryland, my lovely state. Baltimore, the city that Nancy Pelosi’s daddy built with the mafia by his side. And don’t forget Martin O’Malley–who is being groomed for the National stage as we speak, and the more recent Sheila Dixon who was booted from the mayorship for stealing gift cards. Didn’t Maryland just pass a law banning discrimination against Transgenders in mArch–especially when it pertains to use of public bathrooms? Hope the victim, if she recovers from the vicious kick to the base of her skull -if her brain stem is still intact that is, hope she sues the city, McDonalds and those vicious animals that attacked and those who stood by.

And like rapes in jail, because they are common we should not be repulsed or shocked.
Just sayin’

hope [the victim] sues the city, McDonalds

Why sue McDonald’s or the city? What exactly did they do wrong here?

As for the bystanders, they are under no obligation to intervene. More so, sue-happy people like you have made such “good samaritans” liable for their intervention.

Where’s the birth certificate?

HaHaHaha

If I decide to attend a traditional religious service at some Christian denomination church, I’m going to dress in a traditional suit and tie, or at least some kind of nice leisure outfit. You won’t see me going dressed in cut-off tie dies, sandals, or maybe with a leather skull cap with viking horns complete with sword in scabbard and rough looking fur vest. In other words, I’m going to dress appropriate to the venue and occasion.

The same rule of thumb holds true here. There are all kinds of places geared toward that particular type of clientele. They have restroom facilities, and they serve food and drink. He can always patronize these establishments when he wants to dress up. When he wants to patronize other businesses, there’s no law I am aware of that states he has to dress like a woman one hundred percent of the time. When he knows he is liable to be in a traditional establishment, he should dress appropriately.

No one deserves to be beaten like that, and I do have some sympathy for his circumstances, but its tempered. The women should be arrested and charged with assault, and they should serve some time and pay a fine. But I’m going to hold off on agreeing they should be, like one other person suggested, “flayed alive” until I know all the facts.

” … broad spectrum of gender ….”

It is my impression that gender is a polar phenomenon, not spectral.

It could be that the black perps do in fact consider themselves “Christian fundamentalists.” At least “Christians.” Also, most blacks, Christians or not, demur what queers and variants thereof do. It strikes them as mutilation of nature/process and destruction of family/sustainment. It revolts them.

“Christian fundamentalism” today so-called descends from several early heresies of the Christian rise around the Mediterranean. Among them, prominently, was Arianism, which included a monastic wing, especially in North Africa, noted specifically for wearing iron and spiked boots and stomping orthodox Christians and immoralists. Arians are puritanical, stiff and brutal. At one time a near majority of “Christian” bishops was Arian. The Council of Nicaea was called to anathematize Arian philosophy and behavior as not Christian. The Council succeeded, but like all things lousy, Arianism — along with its companion heresies — persists in fresh names and morphologies, always calling itself Christian/Christianity. Violence is among its hallmarks, its rallying points. It is not Christian, fundamentalist or otherwise.

This video recalls to my mind attacks on their enemies by North African Arians of the Fourth Century.

I sure don’t eat anything that’s been beaten to death. I want meat and poultry that’s been killed cleanly, thank you very much.

Your point?

There would be no need for “both” restrooms. You’d only need one at that point.

Many transgendered people have atypical chromosomes that are either at odds with their genital makeup or are configurations other than XX or XY.

Citation, please?

The bystanders are under no LEGAL obligation to intervene

Ah, there’s the rub….what about their MORAL obligation to intervene. I don’t think I could just stand around and watch someone getting the shit kicked out of them without trying to stop it…could you?