Man Seeks to Officially Change His Age from Sixty Nine to Forty Nine

If you're 69 and tell me you're 49, you're lying to me. I wouldn't care how you got the government to commit fraud for you. You're not a car where you simply changed the odometer to where you liked it. That would be fraud, too, and doesn't work that way.
 

Olivia said:
If you're 69 and tell me you're 49, you're lying to me. I wouldn't care how you got the government to commit fraud for you. You're not a car where you simply changed the odometer to where you liked it. That would be fraud, too, and doesn't work that way.
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But gender "reassignment" is OK? Just curious how that works.
 
C'est Moi said:
But gender "reassignment" is OK? Just curious how that works.
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I don't get the comparison. I was referencing lying and fraud. And even gender reassignment doesn't change how long ago someone was born.
 

Olivia said:
I don't get the comparison. I was referencing lying and fraud. And even gender reassignment doesn't change how long ago someone was born.
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I agree. You can change a lot of things but date of birth should NEVER be one of them otherwise birth certificates would be unnecessary or obsolete which would be crazy dangerous.
 
Well, apparently he lost. The court rejected his suit...

"The court said Ratelband was free to feel and act 20 years younger. "But amending his date of birth would cause 20 years of records to vanish from the register of births, deaths, marriages and registered partnerships," it said. "This would have a variety of undesirable legal and societal implications." The court added that with certain rights, like the ability to vote, marry or drink, tied to age, being able to change one's birth date would render those laws "meaningless."

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/03/dutch-court-rejects-age-change-tinder/?yptr=yahoo
 
C'est Moi said:
Well, apparently he lost. The court rejected his suit...

"The court said Ratelband was free to feel and act 20 years younger. "But amending his date of birth would cause 20 years of records to vanish from the register of births, deaths, marriages and registered partnerships," it said. "This would have a variety of undesirable legal and societal implications." The court added that with certain rights, like the ability to vote, marry or drink, tied to age, being able to change one's birth date would render those laws "meaningless."

https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/03/dutch-court-rejects-age-change-tinder/?yptr=yahoo
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Thanks for posting the update. Bully for the Dutch court system and its wise response to his lawsuit.
 
I knew a guy in my neighborhood growing up who was my age, almost to the day. He was adopted as a toddler, and when he turned 18, he decided to seek out his birth family. In doing that, he found his original birth certificate and he was born a year earlier than the one his adoptive parents had given him. He was really bummed out that he could have driven a year earlier....LOL.
 
I don't even see how anyone could "change" their birth date. That's right out of a science fiction story! History can't be changed, much as we would sometimes like to.
 
jujube said:
I knew a guy in my neighborhood growing up who was my age, almost to the day. He was adopted as a toddler, and when he turned 18, he decided to seek out his birth family. In doing that, he found his original birth certificate and he was born a year earlier than the one his adoptive parents had given him. He was really bummed out that he could have driven a year earlier....LOL.
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How bizarre ! By now the poor man is sad because he's actually older than he once thought he was.
 
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