Really? Seriously?

I came across something really disturbing while I was browsing http://feministing.com/. Last week at a McDonald's in Baltimore a young Transwoman(22 years old) was beaten into a seizure by two teenage girls(14 and 18 years old). This all happened because she went to use the ladies restroom. The disgusting thing about the attack is that there were good amount of employees at the McDonald's that could have stopped the whole attack. They all set back and watched the attack take place. One actually filmed the whole thing and did absolutely nothing. The only thing he did was tell the girls to leave and that the cops were on the way once the woman went into a seizure. Did anyone come to the girls rescue? Actually two people, God bless their souls did. The manager and another customer came to the aid of the young woman. The manager was the one he repeatedly had to pull the girls off the woman. Now this attack was not once, they kept on coming back to hit her. There were a lot of punches and kicks, at one time they dragged her by her hair. During this time was when the other customer(who was an older woman) came to push the girls off the woman. What I admired so much was that she was persistent and showed no fear in being attacked herself. She could have been like the male employees and done nothing but she went right up to the girls. The girls did threaten the customer as I recall but she did not care. She was quite feisty actually, I liked her.  I know personally that I would have gotten involved. I would have pulled those two girls right off her and got them the hell out of the store. Now that would have just been my reaction to seeing something like that. I know that some people would have been frozen and just waited for someone to intervene(bystander effect). Some may have just been like the cam holder and yelled at the girls to leave(that would be their reaction). I think we owe it to ourselves and others to intervene whenever injustices are taken place.
What this attack reminded me is how dangerous the world is for transgender people. That people will make it their mission to hurt them because they do not understand them. It breaks my heart and I wish we were more loving.