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A 69-Year-Old Man Asks to be Declared 49 Claiming Age is as Fluid as Gender

posted by martyb on Friday November 09 2018, @05:52AM   
from the does-the-pensioner-want-to-repay-his-benefits-and-go-back-to-work,-too? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshitRe:Let me tell you why that's bullshit (Score: 5, Funny) by takyon on Friday November 09 2018, @06:45AM (7 children)

  by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Friday November 09 2018, @06:45AM (#759745) Journal

  TL;DR: "Age" can be fluid, but there is no such thing as birthdatefluid.

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• Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshitRe:Let me tell you why that's bullshit (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @07:59AM (4 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @07:59AM (#759766)

  You and the other poster Azuki whatever are both bigoted pieces of shit. I hope you fucking die.

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  • Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshitRe:Let me tell you why that's bullshit (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Friday November 09 2018, @08:14AM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Friday November 09 2018, @08:14AM (#759771) Journal

    Care to explain why?

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    • Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshitRe:Let me tell you why that's bullshit (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @08:19AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 09 2018, @08:19AM (#759773)

      Shut up Nazi piece of shit

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      • Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshit(Score: 5, Touché) by takyon on Friday November 09 2018, @08:32AM

        by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Friday November 09 2018, @08:32AM (#759778) Journal

        Isn't that what you identify as?

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  • Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshit(Score: 4, Insightful) by NotSanguine on Friday November 09 2018, @10:09AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Friday November 09 2018, @10:09AM (#759794) Homepage Journal

    I hope you fucking die.

    You will get your wish. Absent injury or illness, they will both die from that whole "age" thing you're denying.

    Moron.

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• Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshitRe:Let me tell you why that's bullshit (Score: 3, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Friday November 09 2018, @11:59PM (1 child)

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday November 09 2018, @11:59PM (#760151) Journal

  ...there is no such thing as birthdatefluid.

  Well it's something now: my new favorite euphemism for semen.

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  • Re:Let me tell you why that's bullshit(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday November 10 2018, @04:56PM

    by Bot (3902) on Saturday November 10 2018, @04:56PM (#760386) Journal

    Associating semen to birth is like associating gamblers to jackpot, though. The odds are thin.

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