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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, @02:46PM (1 child)
Well, at least where I am? People are looking at getting these things onto their certificates. They want to be demonstrated as , so while I agree that such records can be used against you?
This isn't much of case where I am. At least, the perception isn't.
I'll certainly agree that 'bad things' can happen from 'good intended uses' of records. Like Norway, town records, WWII + the Germans... indicating where you want to be buried, a "good thing" so everyone was happy... can be bad if you indicate 'Jewish cemetery' and then society is overthrown with anti-semantics....
(Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Friday November 09 2018, @04:48PM
I don't know, being overthrown by anti-semantics might be just fine. There's quite a bad history of anti-semitics, though.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"