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from the does-the-pensioner-want-to-repay-his-benefits-and-go-back-to-work,-too? dept.
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.
(Score: 2) by Blymie on Friday November 09 2018, @11:32AM
BTW, I was thinking on this... and I recall someone saying that it was important to 'erase' all traces of alternate genders, etc. So the person would not be traumatized.
But really, this is absurd. There will always be some clue. Are you going to throw out all history that says otherwise? And even so, memory exists too. One's own.
I don't mind the idea I touted, a split so that there is a birth and a family cert. Something separate one uses day-to-day, that everyone does, separate from genetic info.
But... I fail to see the logic of trying to hide the truth, when there is no real way to do so.