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Has anyone tried identifying as another thing?

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namechange1487 · 03/02/2023 16:25

Bear with my thinking here.

If current thinking is that a birth certificate can be altered to change sex, then has any other challenges been considered?

I've genuinely had a hard but reasonably successful life. Been a bloody slog though. I genuinely feel older than my 50 odd years. I really really do feel and believe that.

So could I ask to be considered to be 67 and get my pension and retire?

I'm knackered.

I'm being absolutely genuine here. If there is a precedent to change 'facts' due to feelings then I want this.

Has this ever been approached? Or looked at?

If ever women need a campaign I think this could be one.

OP posts:
tackling · 03/02/2023 19:11

https://www.reddit.com/r/nevergrewup/

No, it's not a joke.

Sucessinthenewyear · 03/02/2023 19:09

My 3 year old currently identifies as a space unicorn pup.

Alcemeg · 03/02/2023 19:07

Humans share DNA with all sorts of unlikely things, like bananas and slugs. The possibilities are endless.

WagyuBeef · 03/02/2023 19:06

I occasionally identify as attractive but not for very long.

EpicChaos · 03/02/2023 19:02

Just the other day i announced to someone that from then on, i was going to identify as ' otherkin '.
I was told, in no uncertain terms, that if i didn't knock that idea on the head immediately, there'd be trouble! lol so i'm back to being just me, a terf and proud of it!

PopGoesTheProsecco · 03/02/2023 19:01

Kalpatra · 03/02/2023 18:58

I tried identifying as someone who doesn’t cook and clear up 3-4 different meals every day plus do everyone’s laundry.

But it didn’t work out.

🤣 but 🤗

PopGoesTheProsecco · 03/02/2023 18:59

Can I identify as slim? Thanks to nearly three years of long Covid I’m now a size 20 as I can’t do the 5k running any more.

Kalpatra · 03/02/2023 18:58

I tried identifying as someone who doesn’t cook and clear up 3-4 different meals every day plus do everyone’s laundry.

But it didn’t work out.

postcardpuffin · 03/02/2023 18:56

There are people who “identify” as disabled and want surgery to make them so - it’s a well known disorder. This is a v interesting article from The Atlantic from 2000 about this (and being from 2000, it was able to make v interesting and illuminating comparisons with gender in a way that would be unthinkable now…though not any the less true):

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/12/a-new-way-to-be-mad/304671/

NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision · 03/02/2023 18:56

Transage people are valid and deserve acceptance.

Has anyone tried identifying as another thing?
ArseInTheDogBowl · 03/02/2023 18:46

X post @LadyFlumpalot 😂

ArseInTheDogBowl · 03/02/2023 18:46

I identify as a millionaire. NatWest should change the numbers on my bank balance, because I say it's true.

LadyFlumpalot · 03/02/2023 18:44

I'd like to identify as a millionaire. Personally I feel it's very mean of NatWest to not recognise my identity. I know my bank account is fairly empty but that shouldn't stop the bank from accepting that I'm a millionaire and issuing some sort of edict that the shops must accept my Monopoly money as real money as to do otherwise would invalidate my feels.

Scout2016 · 03/02/2023 18:42

And this chap identifies as both a woman and disabled
www.newsweek.com/wheelchair-using-woman-identifying-disabled-divides-internet-1757356

GroggyLegs · 03/02/2023 18:41

I genuinely feel about 32 inside.

I could demand surgery to validate my true self. I need it to relieve my daily distress at my drooping face and sagging skin.

And Botox would be cheaper for the NHS than daily hormone jabs.

Dartmoorcheffy · 03/02/2023 18:33

I'm identifying as a sloth. It's a great life.

SleekMamma · 03/02/2023 18:33

It is all nonsense. The law was set up for some geezers. Very few geezers. And to stop female offspring being allowed to inherit aristocratic titles.
From this flows all the current utter mess. Non sense. It makes no sense, as it was never supposed to.

CloudPop · 03/02/2023 18:32

From what I understand TWAW don't identify as women per se. As far as they are concerned they actually are women / females in every conceivable way (India Willoughby is clear she is "biologically female"). As a result are confused by why anyone (bigots / haters etc) have any kind of issue with them

thirtysixpercent · 03/02/2023 18:32

There's a Dutch chap Emile Ratelband who's currently on a legal challenge to identify younger than his biological age. If he wins, you could be in with a shot OP. 😂

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/02/2023 18:29

They're all nothing but different rungs on the same ladder. If you accept the validity of the ladder in the first place, it makes absolutely no logical sense whatsoever - and actually just exposes you as a complete hypocrite, bigot and whateverphobe - to deny the validity of any of the other rungs.

Babdoc · 03/02/2023 18:29

There is currently a trans prisoner who now identifies as a baby. The prison staff have to provide him with dummies and nappies, and he insists they always hold his hand when he is out of his cell.
I wish I were joking.

APurpleSquirrel · 03/02/2023 18:27

Utter crap of course.

APurpleSquirrel · 03/02/2023 18:26

Pretty sure I've read about people being both trans-age & trans-race before.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/02/2023 18:26

X-posted - the video is well worth a watch, though. Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "I'm embarrassed for you".

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 03/02/2023 18:24

What you are suggesting is absolutely ludicrous.... but no more ludicrous than the current state of affairs.

This is very interesting - the evidently transagephobic Jane Fae taking great offence at being given a taste of Jane's own medicine: