While, we do need to target the assumption that trans = prostitute...another issue is at work here - laws against renting rooms to people you "should have known" were prostitutes. I remember a number (~2000 to 2001) of years ago the police doing a sting where they had women go to hotels and rent rooms, dropping hints that they were prostitutes. The police arrested any hotel clerk that rented them a room. These laws combined with a stereotype that trans = prostitute create a situation where clerks feel like they have to deny us a room or call the police on us.
