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

[binary solo]

fireburn95 said:

Let's say it was your standard brick n mortar retail store. This employee would have to face customers.
Let's say the applicant is good, well qualified and apparently reliable.

As a manager/boss, you ultimately have the final say. Let's say this transgender was a... very "obvious" transgender.
You have to balance both sides, morality/ethics vs customer experience. 

Let us respect people's opinions, and just because someone says no, let us not assume they are transphobic or phobic-anything. 
For example, there are some roles which favour females (e.g. receptionists) and it doesn't mean the manager is misandrist, just that the manager wants a female facing their clientel. 

Me? I probably wouldn't, at least not in a job where you face customers daily. We've all been in that situation where we are with someone random, and the only thought in our head is "is that a boy or girl? :o"
That's not really the reaction you want consumers to have. When you see a transgender, you often think immediately "this is a trans-person" even if you completely are accepting of their lifestyle. It's just that thought though and you feel like they would be more of a liability, even if they are completely hard working.

Your answer? be brutally honest and I do not mind if you tell me I am wrong.

So gender discrimination is good with you when a person's gender has no direct relevance to the job? Refusing to hire a transgender person BECAUSE they are transgender is no different to refusing to hire a woman or a man because they are a woman or a man. If having boobs, a vagina or a penis is not inherently necessary as part of the job then gender discrimination is immoral and wrong, and people should not submit to it just because some bigots in the community would say boo. Some things are more imporant than profits, and that's why we have laws to regulate employment practices.

Fortunately anti-discrimination laws in civilised countries are not contingent on the acceptance of a particularly intolerant demographic who may happen to be concentrated in a particular town or locality.