Can you choose your age?

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LittleRaven
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Can you choose your age?

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Emile Ratelband thinks so.
A Dutch "positivity trainer" has launched a legal battle to change his age and boost his dating prospects.

Emile Ratelband, 69, wants to shift his birthday from 11 March 1949 to 11 March 1969, comparing the change to identifying as being transgender.

"We live in a time when you can change your name and change your gender. Why can't I decide my own age?" he said.
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Trolling bastard is trolling.
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I mean, it makes just as much sense to me, but I generally don't give people shit over it unless they're trying to compel speech.
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