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

[Mr.Playstation]

spemanig said:

Mr.Playstation said:
No, I wouldn't if he/she was an obvious transgender due to a possible hit in sales but the few in real life transgender I've seen have always at least at a first glance looked like the gender they wanted to be so if that's the case and he/she was the most qualified. I would still hire a transgender person.

Like it's been said in this thread, sales are irrelevant in an ethical issue like this. If it's between doing the right thing and doing the wrong thing, you do the right thing. If I took your first sentence, and changed the word transgender to any other monirity, it would come off as extremely discriminatory.

"No, I wouldn't (hire) if he/she was an obvious gay person due to a possible hit in sales but the few in real life gay people I've seen have always at least at a first glance looked straight so if that's the case and he/she was the most qualified. "

"No, I wouldn't (hire)  if he/she was an obvious black person due to a possible hit in sales but the few in real life black people I've seen have always at least at a first glance acted "white" so if that's the case and he/she was the most qualified."

"No, I wouldn't (hire) if she was an obvious woman due to a possible hit in sales but the few in real life women I've seen have always at least at a first glance looked masculine enough so if that's the case and he/she was the most qualified."

"No, I wouldn't (hire) if he/she was an obvious Muslim due to a possible hit in sales but the few in real life Muslims I've seen have always at least at a first glance looked Christian/Jewish so if that's the case and he/she was the most qualified."

Again, these aren't jobs selling sex. These are jobs selling a service. The thread already clarified that the candidate in question is 100% qualified and professional. The literal only reason you'd be not hiring them would be through blatant, unabashed, super discrimination. Abercrombie & Fitch couldn't get away with it when it came to race, and no other company gets to get away with it when it comes to gender.

I'm sorry your first sentence already makes your whole post irrelevant. Sales are important. Companies have morals only when they don't hurt their income. The world isn't black and white. Everyone's going to do what's best for them and their family even if it means hurting someone else.

 

Also comparing a Transgender to a gay person, a black person, a woman and a Muslim is horribly discriminatory on your part. Sexuality and gender doesn't have anything to do with a public rapresentitive but image does. You may not like this fact but it's the truth no matter how harsh it sounds.