Sienna TG

12.09.2009 2:09pm EST

Earlier this week, Zikerria Bellamy filed a complaint against

McDonald’s for refusing to hire her because she is transgender.

One of the managers left a detailed voice mail message on Bellamy’s phone in July, saying “It doesn’t matter how many times you go down there, you will not get hired. We do not hire faggots. You lied to me.”

That manager has been fired.

A spokeswoman for McDonald’s told the Orlando Sentinel that the person

who left the voice message for Bellamy with antigay slurs was let go.

She said that the employee “acted outside the scope of his authority

and was not responsible,” adding “[McDonald’s] has a zero tolerance

policy prohibiting discrimination or harassment in the restaurant.”

Bellamy, 17, who has been living as a woman for six years, said that

on two separate occasions in July, she tried to get an interview at

the Orlando McDonald’s. Two separate managers refused to hire her.

The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF) then filed the complaint with the Florida Commission on Human Relations on Bellamy’s behalf.  Although one of the managers has been fired as a result of the derogatory statements made in the recording, McDonald’s did not indicate what happened to the second manager.