A smarter thing to do would be to not hire them in the first place.
What bearing does one’s sexuality or identity have on how well they perform most occupations?
In this case, it is a funeral home.
Trans people are at different stages of transitioning. There are trans women who have had surgeries and have had hormonal treatments that clearly appear female, and, from a business point of view, it would be prudent to want such a person to dress as a female. But what about the trans woman who has had none of this and is female only by self-identification? Why is a funeral home unreasonable in expecting that person to dress in male attire?
A funeral home is a place where people come to during extreme grief. There is an expectation on the part of clients that people be entirely professional, and that they maintain a standard professional business appearance. This is for the well-being of the clients, all of whom are usually distraught at the time they arrange a funeral. How would ordinary grieving people view a funeral home employee who has a clear male appearance dealing with them in obviously female clothing? Is it really discrimination to require an employee to adhere to a dress code? (That's what THIS case is really about when one boils it all down.)
I am grateful that I do not suffer from gender dysphoria. I don't pretend to fully understand this, and where this condition comes from. I don't wish to drive people from viable employment, except for just cause. But is this situation ALL about the trans woman (who is a biological male) and nothing at all about the business owner and his ability to conduct business?
I don't know what you think transgender people are like but a MTF person is not going to be wearing a beard and hairy arms and a buzz cut while dressing in a skirt and high heels. A MTF person is by and large just going to look like a woman who might be on the tall side and have an unusually prominent jaw/brows. By your logic, a woman who just happens to look kind of "mannish" (as some women do) shouldn't be hired either.
Generalization. That depends on how far along in the transition process one is. You could actually literally have a big dude with a beard and relatively short hair - since it hasn't grown out yet - wearing a dress. A family in grief doesn't need that distraction. Every job has certain expectations of appearance and attire.
The assumption that a family in grief is going to be comforted by excluding trans people is flat bonkers. Why should you assume that grief makes every family into reactionary transphobes?
