I think it depends entirely on where you're located. The trans community is not even remotely close to the mainstream acceptance that the gay community is beginning to experience. The way the local community would react to this "obviously trans" person varies greatly by state and city (this is specific to the U.S.).
I would certainly hope that they are in a place where there'd be at least moderate acceptance initially. While I agree with the sentiment I'm seeing expressed here that they deserve to be hired based on merit, I'm not sure you're all taking the hypothetical context into consideration here.
The truth is, with many small businesses (if not most) already struggling to make ends meet, there are communities in which hiring an "obviously trans" individual who interacts with the customers would not be accepted by most (or they'd simply prefer whatever alternative was available), and you'd lose your business and livelihood as a result.
Really, I'd hope that larger businesses might pick up the slack of those small business owners who might be one good but unsupported hiring away from destitution. It'd be nice to see some major companies and corporations make an effort to hire these people so that we all become more accustomed to interacting with them and, hopefully sooner rather than later, they gain mainstream acceptance.
You've got to have a great deal of courage to live sincerely as a transgender person... People can be so cruel.
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