{"id":26282,"date":"2018-07-26T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T01:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26282"},"modified":"2018-07-26T21:51:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T01:51:34","slug":"gender-and-the-art-of-buying-car-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/gender-and-the-art-of-buying-car-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender and the art of buying car insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

To misquote Henry Higgins, “why can’t a man be more like a woman?” Well now he (or she, or should it be ze?) can.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"An Alberta man has legally changed his gender purely to benefit from the lower car insurance rates offered to women.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t feel like getting screwed over any more,\u201d the man, identified only as \u201cDavid,\u201d [not me, I should point out]<\/em> told CBC this week.<\/p>\n

For more than three years, Alberta has been among several provinces in which residents can legally change the sex on their birth certificates without providing evidence of genital surgery.<\/p>\n

Under a 2015 reform brought in by Alberta\u2019s Progressive Conservatives, to change the gender on a birth certificate applicants need only provide a note from an accredited physician or psychologist indicating that they identify as a different sex.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty simple. I just basically asked for it and told (the doctor) that I identify as a woman, or I\u2019d like to identify as a woman, and he wrote me the letter I wanted,\u201d David told CBC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is very tempting. If I become a woman, not only will my car and life insurance go down, but I will suddenly become a married lesbian and, thus, a prime candidate for a lucrative bishop\u2019s job in the Anglican Church of Canada. The Diocese of Montreal<\/a> would be a perfect fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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