Emile Ratelband is 69 but feels like a “young god” of 49. His doctors agree he has the constitution of a much younger guy. So Ratelband is fighting through the Dutch courts to change his legal birth date from 1949 to 1969 so he can get a mortgage, a better job and, crucially, pull more chicks on Tinder.

A man who identifies as a woman, he argues, can obtain a new birth certificate stating she was born female, so why can’t he wipe 20 years off his age? A court has argued it would mean deleting part of Ratelband’s life, but is this different to trans people who request no further mention of their birth name and childhood?

“I am who I say I am,”