David noted in a post to Reddit last April that he would have paid $4,517 if he had insured his car as a man, but the cost dropped to $3,423 once he became a woman.
“I am now a woman … I now pay $1,100 less for auto insurance. I won. The end,” he wrote.
Alberta’s sex change requirements weren’t intended to help Albertans welch on their insurance premiums, of course, but rather to cut red tape for the transgender community. A statement at the time called it “a major step forward in supporting transgender individuals and their families.”
Nevertheless, it’s not the first time that a Canadian has used the new measures to legally change their sex for dubious reasons. In 2016, right-wing provocateur Lauren Southern legally changed her sex to male to mock similar regulatory changes in Ontario.
