Canadian man legally lists gender as female to get cheaper car insurance: report

Canadian man legally lists gender as female to get cheaper car insurance: report



A Canadian man legally changed his gender to female so he could take advantage of better car insurance rates offered to women and save up nearly $1,100 Canadian Dollars, a report said.

A man, identified only as “David” who lives in Alberta, told CBC News that he was given a quote of $4,500 Canadian Dollars for the insurance of a Chevrolet Cruze he wanted to buy. The insurers told him his yearly bill would be around $1,100 less if he was a woman.

Men normally pay higher rates as the insurers deem male drivers under age of 25 having a higher risk of getting into traffic accidents than compared to women of the same age.


“I was pretty angry about that and I didn’t feel like getting screwed over any more,” the man said, adding that he asked the insurers to change his gender on the insurances police, a request they refused.

- David

To take advantage of the lower rates and “beat the system”, David had to legally change his gender on a birth certificate. To do so, he had to acquire a note from the doctor acknowledging his identification as a woman before he could proceed with the change.

“It was pretty simple,” David told the outlet about the process of legally changing his gender. “I just basically asked for it and told them that I identify as a woman, or I’d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted.”

After submitting all the documentation, just weeks later, David was legally a female and was subjected to lower premium rates for the insurance. “I was quite shocked, but I was also relieved,” he said. “I felt like I beat the system. I felt like I won.”

“I'm a man, 100 percent. Legally, I'm a woman,” he said, noting that he will be saving around $91 Canadian Dollars per month. “I did it for cheaper car insurance.”

But the man’s trick didn’t earn him universal praise and even drew criticism from some elected lawmakers. Stephanie McLean, a Member of Legislative Assembly for Calgary-Varsity, said in a tweet that the man committed perjury and that he should face time in prison.

"Alberta man admits to Perjury – ‘changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance.’ He thinks he’s so clever. Perjury is an offence liable to imprisonment of up to fourteen years. IT’S NOT A LOOPHOLE IT’S A CRIME!” she tweeted.

The transgender community also criticized David for his stunt, saying it downgrades the whole process of changing ones gender.

“I think it cheapens the whole process. It sort of casts doubt on everybody else's motives for making those changes," Marie Little, a former chair of the Trans Alliance Society, told CBC News. “I think it gives ammunition to people who want to take rights away from trans people.”

But David acknowledged to CBC News that some people may need to change their gender on their birth certificates and insisted that he didn’t intend to make fun of the transgender community.

“I didn't do it to point out how easy it is to change genders,” he said. “I didn't do it to criticize or ridicule transgender or LGBT rights.”

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Canada's socialist law makers are pissed. Their idiotic plan to screw over males, has failed.

It reminds me of california passing idiotic laws, and then wondering why everyone with a job leaves.

What do you think?

 

Stephanie McLean
@NDPStephanie
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Jul 26
Alberta man admits to Perjury - “changes gender on government IDs for cheaper car insurance.” He thinks he’s so clever. Perjury is an offence liable to imprisonment of up to fourteen years. IT’S NOT A LOOPHOLE IT’S A CRIME! #ableg (link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/change-gender-identification-insurance-alberta-1.4754416) cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…






Stephanie McLean
@NDPStephanie
In the article the Man in question admits he does not identify as a woman. He admits to lying about how he identifies just to get cheaper insurance.
11:15 AM · Jul 26, 2018

This started a funny thread on twitter:

https://mobile.twitter.com/NDPStephanie/status/1022500550812680193

 

as far as i know in my country it is also illegal to discriminate against woman or men, so 100% good for him
but hes a idiot for admitting it

 

Admitting it is what makes him great.

 

Ze's gender fluid. When ze drives ze feels like a woman.

 

Legally great, legally silly and legally confused.

 

This is an appropriate use of a ridiculous issue (I am what I say I am and I demand you indulge my illusions) that has people doing ridiculous things that in the long run, hurts individuals and attracts people with mental issues.

 

Na, Its better than Gieco.

He saved $1100 on car insurance in 15 minutes

 

I wonder if Caitlin Jenner's rates have gone up after hitting two other vehicles on the Pacific Coast Highway (one of them fatally)?
http://www.tmz.com/2015/06/08/caitlyn-jenner-sued-prius-driver-fatal-accident-pacific-coast-highway/

 

This is the kind of stuff you introduce when you decide facts don't feel good, and you let people walk down imagination land instead.


Pure nonsense. This entire "identify as" nonsense should be completely done away with.

 

Im sure they have.

 

I don't know. She's very popular.

 

hows this?

 

$4,500 insurance premium for one year on a Chevy Cruze???You have got to be kidding that's highway robbery,I don't blame him one bit.Insurance both HEALTH and Canadian auto rates have to be the worlds biggest scam,no wonder insurance companies have multi acre'd landscaped office campuses.

 

A person should be able to change their race too - and back and forth - for economic benefits - like Elizabeth Warren did (but only when it was to her advantage, when not she remained white.)

 

I think it's hilarious.

 

What "rights" exactly do they think they have? Where in anyones Constitution does it guarantee a right to having your imagination validated over the Biological facts?


And then theres this

Rubber stamped of course, because you cannot verify anything with regards to someones imagination, you simply have to take their word for it. Dangerous road to travel down for a society.
Everyone has an imagination, good luck staying equal and validating them all.

 

The whiny "Pink Tax" moonbats conveniently omit stuff like this

 

Car insurance is $4,500 in Canada? Holy fcuk

 

Absolutely, Its only fair..... Everyone should be able to become a black woman, and receive a government benefit.

 

The average in Canada is 1300$ a year from what I've read.

He had an accident and two speeding tickets. Plus he must live near Toronto.

 

Charging diferent insurance rates is not descrimination. It is justified with actuarial facts. Males under 25 tend to get into more severe accidents. I have not been in the property casualty side but if I recall correctly it used to that females under 25 gitbinto more smal less severe fender benders than males of the same age but males did a great job on serious physical damage and bodily injuries injuries.

So no descrimination just facts.

 

The type of car is only one factor in rating. The type of car and it's value is a big factor in the first party physical damage portion of rate calculation. A car capable of high speeds in the hands of a males less than age 26 will be a likely instrument to cause liability claims. Prior incidents and claims and driving record are major factors.

 

Nobody ever called South Park subtle.

 

Guys like the OP are going to ruin these stats, so they no longer have much relevance if we continue down this road.