A man in Switzerland has exploited an administrative loophole and formally changed his gender in order to retire a year earlier, it has emerged.
New rules introduced on Jan. 1 enable any Swiss resident with the “intimate conviction” that they do not belong to the sex they are registered as in the civil status register can apply to change their gender, in addition to their first name, for just 75 Swiss francs (€72).
And it took just four days for the system to be taken advantage of with Swiss daily Luzerner Zeitung reporting that a man from Lucerne applied to change his gender so that he could receive his state pension at the Swiss retirement age for women of 64, a year earlier than men.
One social media user suggested there was nothing stopping a male from applying for a gender change at the age of 17 to avoid military conscription. “At 30, you go back and change your name to man and that’s it,” wrote one user, all for the cost of 150 Swiss francs.
The question of trans individuals and gender changes is not limited to pensions, but is also a hot topic when it comes to sport. In countries like the United States, biological men who changed their gender are increasingly competing on women’s sports teams, breaking records, and siphoning off scholarship money from biological females.
Source: Swiss man changes gender to retire and receive his pension a year earlier
How much more ridiculous can it get? But then nobody gave a toss when older women were being abused by younger women, and nobody gave a toss when men became outraged by what they were told were ‘lesbians’ turning their womenfolk away from them – when it was heterosexual women ‘appropriating’ the good bits of what they saw a a lifestyle of homosexual women. No wonder the men I used to get on so well with ended up HATING me. They thought I was responsible for their womenfolk ‘identifying as lesbian’ when it was those damned ‘all men are bastard’ academic feminists and their ‘conscious raising groups. It’s a pity they didn’t actually raise their own consciousnesses and considered the consequences of their perfidy.