If GoDaddy wants to lock all private registration domain names against transfers, so that gaining registrars can handle the failure as part of their normal "locked domains can't be transferred" business logic, that's fine (extremely annoying, but fine). What I object to is "every registrar has a different extra procedure that needs to be followed to allow transfers". When a customer asks me "how do I transfer a domain name to you?", I need to be able to check that it isn't locked, that it's been registered for > 60 days, and that the customer can read messages sent to the admin contact address, and say "you're all set". Not "well, you'll have to ask your current company what you have to do so that they'll allow it...", which is EXACTLY what the transfer policy was designed to put a stop to.
Add to that "check that the customer is actually the registrant on the domain" and you're golden.
The t+c's on several of these privacy services (I haven't tried godaddy's service) state that they deny transfer requests. Logically it follows that the customer will have to cancel the privacy service before initiating a transfer.
De facto transfer denial is a "feature" of the privacy services, whether the customer wants it or not.
-Russ
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