Would you hire a transgender if you were the boss of a store?

[ReimTime]

fireburn95 said:

ReimTime said:

Welllllllllllllll yes it's still discrimination (exclusion based on personal preference) because that is the definition:

"Discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit."

In relation to how I said I would hire based solely on capability etc, being a customer when I go into a store/restaraunt etc I judge based on service, not race/gender etc.

Discrimination against nature vs discrimination against factors you can change however. 

You shouldn't discriminate over someone being born brown, but you can essentially do it over someone with fake red hair color because that was a choice which can be changed, and you might have personal preferences in that case.

I get the ethics behind transgender is that is not a choice, but it is a choice to change gender, not sex, so it wouldnt really apply if someone discriminated on the grounds of appearance of the individual.

To follow dress code, yes. I do think that if somebody with red hair, excessive visible body piercings/tattoos etc. should be able to be declined if it clashes with the dress code. But the whole "they choose to identify as this gender" is an ethical debate that I do not wish to get into; sorry.