San Francisco’s Perverse Incentive to Identify as Transgender

Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., is director of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation, as well as the think tank’s William E. Simon senior research fellow in religious liberty and civil society. Imagine that a progressive American city creates a financial incentive for residents to “transition” from man to woman or from woman to man.

That’s exactly what San Francisco has just done with a program called Guaranteed Income for Transgender People, or GIFT .

This is like using a fire hose to spray a burning skyscraper with gasoline. Talk about perverse incentives.Anyone want to bet […]

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