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The television personality, aged 69, has asked a Dutch court to approve her request for a new birthday that would legally be 49 years old.
The so-called guru of positivity, Emile Ratelband, thinks that age is only a number, and the Dutch want to change it.
The 69-year-old television personality has asked a Dutch court to approve her new birthday request, which would officially make her 49 years old.
Ratelband said that its lawsuit was compatible with other forms of personal transformation that are increasingly accepted and recognized by governments in the Netherlands and around the world.
"With this free[dom] choice, choice of name, franchise of sex, I want to have my age. I want to control myself, "he said Thursday.
Ratelband said he wanted to avoid age-based discrimination in society, especially on dating sites.
"So, when I ask for a mortgage, for example, they say it's impossible," he told The Associated Press. "If I go on Tinder, then I get women of 68, 69 when women are there."
How about being fair with the truth about his age?
"I do not want to lie," he says. "I want to be myself, so do not force me to lie."
Marjolein van den Brink, a specialist in human rights and gender issues at the Faculty of Law of the University of Utrecht, said that discrimination based on age was a problem, but that she was different from the problems related to sex reassignment.
"It is clear that older people are much less likely to find a job than young people," she said. "But that's just one element, and it's only something that happens to you once you're 40, 45 or 50, it depends a bit on your work.
"While sex is something that follows you from birth to death, it determines almost everything – not just in the labor market, but around the world," she said.
In rare cases, even the breed has also become more fluid.
In Britain, director Anthony Ekundayo Lennon drew attention in part because, although he is the son of white Irish parents, he looks like a Métis man. He also wrote and told reporters that he considered himself a black man.
He says he was a victim of racial abuse in his teens because of his appearance and that when he began an acting career, it was easier for him to pursue non-white roles. He also took an African name.
Now, some black artists are complaining because Lennon recently did a paid internship as part of a program designed to give more blacks a career opportunity in the arts.
Her case resembles that of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman in the United States who identified herself as black after being raised by religious parents who adopted four black children. She was working for the NAACP when her trick was discovered in 2015.
Ratelband said that the Dutch government could benefit from it if he accepted his age request. He said that he would be happy to lose his monthly pension of about 1,200 euros (1,370 dollars). According to him, a deal would save him nearly 300,000 euros ($ 343,000) over the 20 years that he wants to spread out of his age.
The Arnhem court is expected to render its decision in about four weeks.
Ratelband, who makes a living by urging people and businesses to be positive, denies that the demand for age is a publicity stunt. He claims to seek a personal positive effect.
"Now I am an old man, I have to save my money to give it to my children so that they can live," said the father of seven children. "But if I still have that age, I have new hope, I'm new, all the future is here for me again."
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