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derefr on July 26, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for ...

British Columbia will soon support answering “not specified” for gender on identity documents. I wonder how insurance providers will cope with that. Will they demand you tell them a gender? Will they try to infer it? Will they use low-statistical-power actuarial data for the insurance usage rates of “not-specified people”?

i_am_nomad on July 26, 2018 | [–]

They’ll just buy your demographic profile from a broker for a pittance and use that.

stavrianos on July 26, 2018 | | [–]

Easy: anyone who isn't specified gets the higher rate.

empthought on July 26, 2018 | | [–]

This is exactly correct.

lykr0n on July 26, 2018 | [–]

Change it to "Sex" or add have both "Sex" and "Gender" fields.

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