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A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender

posted by martyb on Friday November 09 2018, @05:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the does-the-pensioner-want-to-repay-his-benefits-and-go-back-to-work,-too? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Washington Post:

In the quixotic battle against old age, some people use skin care and spin class.

That’s not enough for Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old who feels like he’s in his 40s. The Dutch pensioner is asking a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to change his birth certificate so that it says he took his first breath on March 11, 1969, rather than on March 11, 1949. The judges heard his case Monday and promised they would render a verdict in the next several weeks.

Ratelband sees his request as no different from a petition to change his name or the gender he was assigned at birth — and isn’t bothered that this comparison might offend transgender people, whose medical needs have been recognized by the American Medical Association. It comes down to free will, he maintains.

I want to be recognized as an alien trapped in an Earthling's body.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @07:59AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @07:59AM (#759766)

    You and the other poster Azuki whatever are both bigoted pieces of shit. I hope you fucking die.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Friday November 09 2018, @08:14AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday November 09 2018, @08:14AM (#759771) Journal

    Care to explain why?

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    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @08:19AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @08:19AM (#759773)

      Shut up Nazi piece of shit

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Friday November 09 2018, @10:09AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Friday November 09 2018, @10:09AM (#759794) Homepage Journal

    I hope you fucking die.

    You will get your wish. Absent injury or illness, they will both die from that whole "age" thing you're denying.

    Moron.

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