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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.

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @11:33PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @11:33PM (#760137)

    Except gender is not a social construct and until someone very recently started screaming otherwise. Gender and sex were the same and meant the same thing.
    If gender is indeed a social construct then what exactly do we hope to accomplish by giving trans people hormones?
    You are a fucking nazi for silencing trans voices and denying their existence. Erasing them is just the same as shoving them in an oven.

  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday November 10 2018, @01:24AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 10 2018, @01:24AM (#760182) Journal

    For the first three sentences, I was right there with you. Not 100% agreement, perhaps, but together on essentials.

    Then you kind of lost me in nazi voice oven shoving. What the heck???