A 16-year-old gay woman has been left feeling humiliated after a McDaonls employee in the UK insisted she leave the establishment.
Ny Richardson was in the Hull branch of McDonalds when the employee entered the toilet and asked Richardson to leave.
Talking to
Yahoo the teen commented:
“I ordered my food and left it with my girlfriend as I went to the toilet.
“When I was in there, someone told me to get out and when I sat back down, the manager came over and told me that I needed to leave because I have been in the girls’ toilet.”
She responded: “I said to him, ‘Why do I need to leave? I’m a girl, can you not tell by my voice?’
“He then asked me to show some ID, but when I didn’t have any he told me to get out and he rang the police.”
The restaurant claims Richardson was in a group of disruptive customers and that is what led to her being told to vacate the premises.
Richardson claims she was not part of that group, and that this was the first time she was treated unfairly because of her appearance.
A statement from the restaurant reads:
“We can confirm a group of individuals were asked to leave our St Andrew’s Quay restaurant, following several complaints about inappropriate behaviour.
“This group has been asked to leave the restaurant on numerous occasions over the past few days, culminating in the police being called on Tuesday evening. These actions have been taken due to unacceptable behaviour only.”
Richardson has been overwhelmed by the support.
Taking to Facebook she writes:
"All of this McDonald's shit has gone weirdly viral, for example HDM, the sun, Turkey and Ti-wan and different sites on here. It feels so weird, all i wanted in the first place was to show and tell every one the way i got treated and asked to prove my identity infront of the whole restaurant. it was nothing about me looking like a lad or out, cause i know i do, it's the way he handled the situation, but ive had a lot of support from people, like random people in the street and every thing who I've never come across in my life, some proper lovely people! But also got quite a few heads wanting too fight and bang me which i don't really under stand why, but hey hooo haha! Wanted to say massive thanks to my girl friend and few friends and family for the support [sic]"
