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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:25AM
> people with problems should get nothing but support
until their problems extend beyond themselves. Psychopath dumping mercury into the stream can be physically stopped from destroying lives and nature, even he resists.
The line is hard to find. What about someone advocating violence, but not enacting it? What about dogwhistling? What if you don't know it' s dogwhistling? (One of my siblings' favorite players in the 90's and 00's was #88, he only recently got told he's gotta stop wearing his favorite ratty jersey!)