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Car insurance cheaper if non binary instead of male or female - Australia

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FeralWoman · 02/12/2025 11:45

Here’s some batshittery from Australia. If you identify as non binary when insuring your car you can get cheaper car insurance. Some insurers will offer a cheaper rate for non binary than make or female, and other insurers offer a rate equal to female.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15340105/NRMA-Allianz-non-binary-2GB-Fordham.html

Such bullshit. It’s supposed to be based on actual observed risk and real data, not imaginary gender.

I’m hoping that a lot of young men decided to identify as non binary today and rang their car insurers to change their gender. I joked to DH that he needs to identify as non binary and get a cheaper rate. Apparently it would be lying and wrong to do that if it’s not real. Hilarious! Non binary isn’t real.

https://www.finder.com.au/news/will-saying-youre-non-binary-get-you-cheaper-car-insurance-heres-the-truth

Will saying you're non-binary get you cheaper car insurance? Here’s the truth

A story has gone viral of a man who discovered identifying as non-binary got him a cheaper car insurance quote.

https://www.finder.com.au/news/will-saying-youre-non-binary-get-you-cheaper-car-insurance-heres-the-truth

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caramac04 · 02/12/2025 12:24

Who would have thought having a mental health issue would get you cheaper insurance?

oldtiredcyclist · 02/12/2025 12:23

Locutus2000 · 02/12/2025 12:14

Huh, unnecessary trans-bashing on Mumsnet. Who'd have thought it?

Please stop with the misgendering, they are non binary!

Greyskybluesky · 02/12/2025 12:21

Locutus2000 · 02/12/2025 12:14

Huh, unnecessary trans-bashing on Mumsnet. Who'd have thought it?

It's good you're here. What are your thoughts? Do you think this is workable?

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FeralWoman · 02/12/2025 12:18

Locutus2000 · 02/12/2025 12:14

Huh, unnecessary trans-bashing on Mumsnet. Who'd have thought it?

Nobody mentioned trans apart from you. This is about non binary.

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Locutus2000 · 02/12/2025 12:14

Huh, unnecessary trans-bashing on Mumsnet. Who'd have thought it?

Greyskybluesky · 02/12/2025 12:05

TWETMIRF · 02/12/2025 12:01

It's so bigoted to have a binary of either driving on the left or right depending on what country you are in. Let's campaign to queer up driving and let everyone decide which side they want to drive on

Yes!

It's offensive to have to pick a side. We don't even need a campaign. Let's just do it. After all, rules and judgments are optional, right?

TWETMIRF · 02/12/2025 12:01

It's so bigoted to have a binary of either driving on the left or right depending on what country you are in. Let's campaign to queer up driving and let everyone decide which side they want to drive on

MagpiePi · 02/12/2025 11:59

Greyskybluesky · 02/12/2025 11:54

"While the difference [in data] is clear for males and females, data on the impact of gender identity, as opposed to sex, is more difficult to find."

No shit!

Where do NBs drive - down the middle of the road? I would have thought the cost would be higher then.

"today I feel like driving on the left, but tomorrow I might feel like driving on the right, or I might change half way through my journey"

Absolute twaddle 🙄

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FeralWoman · 02/12/2025 11:57

@yorkshiretoffee Yes women get cheaper car insurance. The most expensive is young men aged 16 to 25. They have more accidents and drive more dangerously so they have to pay more.

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Greyskybluesky · 02/12/2025 11:54

"While the difference [in data] is clear for males and females, data on the impact of gender identity, as opposed to sex, is more difficult to find."

No shit!

Where do NBs drive - down the middle of the road? I would have thought the cost would be higher then.

yorkshiretoffee · 02/12/2025 11:50

Do women get cheaper car insurance than men in Australia? I don't think that is the case in the UK any more. But if it was the case in Australia then it would make sense that it was cheaper not to be a man at least.
I wonder if changing my LinkedIn profile to they/them would be enough "evidence" to present?

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