Canadian man becomes a Canadian 'woman' to save a few bucks

A Canadian dude changed his gender to female to get cheaper car insurance and got almost $1,100 savings. [That's about $2.75 U.S.--just kidding].

CBC News reported that a man in his early 20's known only as "David" wanted to purchase a Chevy Cruze and was quoted around $4,500 for insurance. He then asked the agent if he could save money if he was a woman and was told the insurance bill would be reduced to $3,400, or $1,100 less.

David, [being totally unaware how insurance companies assess risk and thus determine their charge for coverage] told CBC News, "I was pretty angry about that. And I didn't feel like getting screwed over any more."

He asked the agent to change his gender on the policy but his request was denied.

So he went to his doctor and said that he identified as a woman and then went and changed his the gender on his birth certificate and drivers license.

"It was pretty simple," (s)he said [I don't want to get sued]. "I just basically asked for it and told then that I identified as a woman, or I'd like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted."

When David first applied to change his gender, the law required a doctor's note, but since then, that requirement has been removed and anyone can say they identify as whatever they want, even a farm animal, and nobody will stop them.

Not David

David says he "took advantage of a loophole" and feels he "beat the system."

"I did it for cheaper insurance," (s)he said. Now (s)he saves a whopping $91 a month because the statistics on automobile safety are on the side of women.

David says (s)he did it to target the insurance industry [he still doesn't understand how premiums are determined] not to insult the mentally ill transgender community. But still, many people of all genders and identities are spitting mad.

One woman tweeted her anger calling David's actions "perjury" and a "crime."

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

Yes, 'trans people' have the right to pee where they want and transgender women [who are actually men with a delusion] even have the right to compete in sports against actual women.

But it isn't as if David plans to compete against a woman in wrestling. He's just a cheapskate.

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