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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: 1, Troll) by VLM on Friday November 09 2018, @12:11PM (4 children)
Or Native American Chief Elizabeth Warren
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @03:15PM (2 children)
You're a moron, she had the genetic testing done and yes she had an ancestor that was fully American Indian. She never claimed to be a chief.
(Score: 2) by unauthorized on Friday November 09 2018, @07:43PM (1 child)
A "homeopathic" indan more like it. Her ancestry is over 99% North European. She is more white than Richard Fucking Spencer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @09:49PM
The fuck is wrong with you people? Hateful disgusting humans.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @07:24PM
It would be suuuuuuch a shaaaame if you were to choke on one of your dog whistles.