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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, @11:35PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @11:35PM (#760139)

    Can you show me something from the 1800s that demonstrates that the words gender and sex have different meaning please?

  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday November 09 2018, @11:44PM (2 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Friday November 09 2018, @11:44PM (#760142) Homepage Journal

    Can you show me something from the 1800s that demonstrates that you're not a complete moron and troll?

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    • (Score: 4, Informative) by requerdanos on Friday November 09 2018, @11:50PM (1 child)

      by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Friday November 09 2018, @11:50PM (#760146) Journal

      Anonymous coward is neither a moron nor a troll, being an upstanding individuall in all things, & known to be prone to wisdom and charity towards all.
              - Abraham Lincoln, "Letters to the Internet," 1863.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @10:48AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @10:48AM (#760295)

        I have verified the above to be a true and accurate quote of the words of Mr Lincoln.
              - Benjamin Franklin, "Musings on Truth", May 1772.