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  • #1505575
    Avram in MD
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    Joseph,

    “No, I’m proposing the law be consistent. Either allow insurance carriers to discriminate premiums based on gender and race or disallow either.”

    Discriminating directly based on race would be a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that law and subsequent amendments do not address gender. However, auto insurance companies do indirectly discriminate based on race: they charge different rates by zip code, and predominantly minority zip codes tend to have much higher rates than predominantly white zip codes.

    #1505579
    Avram in MD
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    CTLAWYER,

    “There is no history of damage/accidents in our High school parking lot.”

    Oh yeah? Well in MY town, every Thursday children get free rides on flying unicorns in the park. And if a banged up car remains overnight in my town, by morning it looks miraculously like new. Sometimes it even transforms into a later year model.

    #1505581
    Joseph
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    Avram: “Discriminating directly based on race would be a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that law and subsequent amendments do not address gender.”

    Again, I’m suggesting that the law be modified to either explicitly allow or disallow, consistently, both forms of premium discrimination: based on gender and based on race. There’s no good reason to allow one but not the other.

    #1505734
    🐵 ⌨ Gamanit
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    Seems like insurance is currently allowed to discriminate for anything someone has a choice about. If someone is being charged more for not being married; get married. If you’re being charged more for being a teenager; stop driving until you’re older…. You can’t legally change your race (esp. since there’s technically no legal recording of race in the first place.

    #1505736
    👑RebYidd23
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    Joseph, gender and race are two different things.

    #1505753
    Joseph
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    RY23, race, religion and national origin are different things too. If you can’t discriminate based on race would you approve of the law allowing discrimination based on religion or national origin? If not, why would you oppose price discrimination based on race or religion but support it based on gender?

    Gamanit, at last check gender cannot be changed. (Spare us the jokes.) Yet insurance carriers can discriminate their pricing based on that.

    #1505761
    DovidBT
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    What would happen if insurance companies eliminated risk groups and simply charged everyone the same premium? Would that destroy the insurance industry?

    #1505762
    👑RebYidd23
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    Disclaimer: not saying I support discrimination.

    But gender is different because even a homogeneous society contains both genders. Being the son of a woman doesn’t make you half woman either.

    #1505763
    🐵 ⌨ Gamanit
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    Joseph- in the state of NY all you need to legally change gender is a notarized letter from a physician. If someone is upset enough about their insurance rates they can get that.

    #1505773
    👑RebYidd23
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    That would destroy the insurance industry, DovidBT.

    #1505778
    👑RebYidd23
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    Gamanit, can a person claim to be in a medical state where their gender changes based on what is financially beneficial at the moment?

    #1505783
    🐵 ⌨ Gamanit
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    RebYidd23- probably. What the physician basically has to state is that the person is unhappy with their gender. If they are unhappy and change and then are unhappy again I don’t see a legal reason they should be unable to change again.

    #1505869
    Joseph
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    Gamanit, does that mean one then must also change which restroom they use?

    #1505917
    Toi
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    Or allow them to play in a women’s basketball league?

    #1506136
    👑RebYidd23
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    I don’t think there’s a way to legally designate yourself as good at basketball.

    #1506235
    Toi
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    I mean, does legally designating yourself as a woman give you the same right as a biological woman to enter the leagues, should you prove talented enough.

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