Man legally changes his gender to identify as a woman 'so he can retire five years ea
 

Man legally changes his gender to identify as a woman 'so he can retire five years earlier' in Argentina
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-earlier.html

I'd never heard of being able to retire earlier if you are female... that's a new one for me. But not surprising... ppl lie on their taxes, so makes sense they would lie on other govt forms too... seems like it would be easy to abuse if it is just paperwork.

Kind of like how ppl here put down their status as a minority to get grants just because they have some far off ancestor in that category.

If he is within the law then Good Luck to him.

Because I am 'Sall this elf-Employed' I could not do the same but wouldn't anyway - I LOVE being a big macho man (even one past his 'sell by date' :laugh:)

Well why wouldn't he retire 5 years early? Now he has 5 whole more years for leisure activities, like going in women's toilets and changing rooms.

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In all seriousness though, it's daft that women can retire earlier than men there anyway. I mean, don't women on average live longer? They should retire later if anything :fist:

Although I seem to remember it being the same in the UK once upon a time? Women were 60 and men 65? I might be imagining it though.

Who wants to retire?

Spend your days going for a free coffee in Dobbies and your main social highlight being the big shop at morrisons

no fear

People who have hobbies that they love but jobs that they hate.

I agree that retiring without multiple hobbies is probably a bad idea. As is retiring if you like your job. But if your job is overly stressful or boring, you get no enjoyment out of it, and you can afford it, then retire ASAP :shrug:

[edit] Oh and of course, company is important too, I wouldn't recommend anyone leaving work if they get social interaction there and lack it elsewhere. Too many sad ol' chaps in the shop for hours putting on 20p bets, spending maybe £4 all day, because they're only really there for the company of other regulars :(. Although there are loads of them and they've all known each other for decades so I have no idea why they don't just go and do something ELSE sometimes :joker:.

My old man was never happier working and speaking to people, he semi retired and worked at the Wallace Monument for years speaking to tourists and telling them all about Stirling, he loved it, he hated having to give it up.

But I agree with all of what you said

Wiley old beggar.:joker: Not really old at 60.
I think its good that we have equality in pension age, I think it's even better that you can retire at 55 on a private pension..if you can afford to.

Woman have been entitled to retire before men in the UK for generations, and it doesn't reach full equality for some time yet, so for gentlemen of a certain age, it must be worth considering this still in the UK :laugh:

Retirement is what you make it. If you want to vegetate in front of the TV that's your right. If you want to be active in mind/body, retirement doesn't stop that

I'm pretty sure retirement age here is the same for men and women, 65

Wondered how long it would be before it was abused

Shouldn't the trans community be up in arms about this? Or do they only care about semantics? I've seen a lot of outrage from trans women... but I predict they will remain silent about this.

People would never abuse it Livia, never :nono:

LOL... of course not.

This is going to be abused in many ways. The whole thing is ridiculous.

What about if a ship is going down and there are just a few lifeboats and some bloke sticks on a dress and demands to get a lifeboat space?

It could happen

Me and 8-year-old were watching Titanic (she's become obsessed with it :think: ) and she was like "Oh nooo daddy we'd have to get on a boat and leave you behind"...

...and I was like "Nah, they let Cal on when he pretends some random kid is his and he's her only carer, so your mum and sister would get on a boat, and we would wait a few minutes, then run up and I'd be like "I HAVE A CHILD! I HAVE A CHILD!" and we would get on too, and we would all pretend not to know each other until we got to dry land."

So I had that scenario covered anyway :hee:.

However...

1) They don't do "women and children first" any more,
2) Passenger ships aren't allowed to sail unless they have adequate lifeboat space for everyone on board

... so neither of these situations shall ever come to pass.

IF this is true then it's gross since it undercuts trans issues as a whole, IF it's true.

It's kind of silly that there's different ages of retirement though for the genders, what's the point? Make it 60 or 65 for everyone.

:laugh2:


But yes, ridiculous that in this day and age anyone would be left without a space

This isnt Italy :fist:

...well in the UK it is changing to be the same for everyone, but it aint 60 or 65 it's ****ing 68 for everyone born after 1960 and it'll probably keep going up. If there's a state pension at all, that is...

I think its daft that women can retire earlier anyway, so I cannot blame this guy for doing what he can to have fairer treatment :shrug:

Used to be the same here too, but its equal now. Infact there were 2 reasons the GRC was brought in...for equal pension rights, and so that transsexual people could marry someone of the same sex (as it was brought in before we had same sex marriage)