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

[SuperNova]

This is a very tricky question.
If they were qualified I'd hire them without hesitation based on my personal beliefs in equality and against discrimination. And also because in all honestly I see no diffrence between a transgender person and any other person. If I was a store owner in my aeria I'd hire them in a heartbeat.

But then reality comes in and to deal with that can be much harder. Unfortunatly there's parts of my country where racism and intolerance still run rampant. Ironically that's mostly because the population there is too homogeneous and they've just not been exposed to any sort of differentness. The only way to help that is education and exposure. To show them that people are just people no matter the color of their skin or their gender or sexual orientation and that diffrent cultures and ways of living can benefit from each other. That is a process that takes time. And sadly sacrifices. There will likely be violence involved.
Vandalism, bashings and arson are things that can and do happen.
Like other people said, if it was a bigger chain, i see no problems but if you are a small business owner that has all of their savings tied up in their business and is dependent on it's success, something like a fire can ruin you for life.
I want to say, I'd still hire them in a heartbeat, I'm just not sure if I'm that brave.