A 69-year-old man asks to be declared 49, claiming age is as fluid as gender
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Source: The 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 on 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.
“Because nowadays, in Europe and in the United States, we are free people,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. “We can make our own decisions if we want to change our name, or if we want to change our gender. So I want to change my age. My feeling about my body and about my mind is that I’m about 40 or 45.”
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He's being discriminated against on dating sites. Thinks he can date younger, work longer, if not 69. Lol.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/08/dutch-man-69-starts-legal-fight-to-identify-as-20-years-younger
Ratelband—who is a media personality and motivational speaker in the Netherlands—is hoping the younger version of himself will also have better luck in other areas of life, not just online dating. “When I'm 69, I am limited,” he explained. “If I'm 49, then I can buy a new house, drive a different car. I can take up more work.”
“When I'm on Tinder and it says I'm 69, I don't get an answer,” Ratelband told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. “When I'm 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position.”
Ratelband is confident his body can live up to his new age if the judge decides to make him younger. He and told De Telegraaf he has the physique of a 45-year-old, describing himself as a “young god.”
He admitted potential dates might be skeptical of his age when they saw him in the flesh, but is confident he can smooth-talk his way out of any awkwardness. “Maybe they say, ‘You have weak muscles for 49 years.’ And then I say, ‘But not that one, you know.'”
“Nowhere are you so discriminated against as with your age,” he suggested.
'Young God' https://www.newsweek.com/69-year-old-young-god-sues-lower-age-20-years-we-can-change-genderwhy-cant-i-1206922
