{"id":291614,"date":"2018-11-09T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=291614"},"modified":"2018-11-12T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T21:12:54","slug":"dutchman-demonstrates-the-absurdity-of-transgenderism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/09\/dutchman-demonstrates-the-absurdity-of-transgenderism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutchman Demonstrates the Absurdity of Transgenderism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Grab sound bite number 23 before we go to the phones. We\u2019re going there imminently here, folks.<\/p>\n<p>This was on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/08\/dutch-man-69-starts-legal-fight-to-identify-as-20-years-younger\">U.K. Guardian website yesterday<\/a>. They posted a video of a motivational speaker and a television personality in Holland &#8212; that would be Dutch, for those of you in Rio Linda. His name is Emile Ratelband. He was talking with a reporter about his lawsuit to legally change his age.<\/p>\n<p>RATELBAND: I feel I suffer under my age because I\u2019m much more younger than 68. So when I ask for a mortgage, for example, they say, &#8220;It\u2019s impossible.&#8221; If I go on Tinder, you know, then I get woman from 68 and 69. I don\u2019t want to lie. I want to be myself. So don\u2019t force me to lie. When I\u2019m really 49 again, I will have a baby again. I will buy a new car again. I will paint my house again. If I have that age again, I have hope again, I\u2019m new again, the whole future is there for me again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-291675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-110918-Dutchman-Emile-Ratelband.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-110918-Dutchman-Emile-Ratelband.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-110918-Dutchman-Emile-Ratelband-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The guy is demonstrating the utter absurdity of what the left is normalizing with transgenderism by saying he identifies as a 49-year-old guy instead of 68 and he ought to be able to do it. If he thinks he\u2019s 49 and if he feels like he\u2019s 49 then he ought to be able to say he\u2019s 49. He ought to be legally able to say he\u2019s 49 \u2019cause that\u2019s how he feels, that\u2019s how he identifies.<\/p>\n<p>And then he made the case, if I\u2019m 49 again, I may get a new mortgage. I may go out and buy a new house. I may invest in a new business. I may do a lot of things here that would help everybody if you would let me be 49. Now, how do you think most people react? &#8220;Aw, come on! Get serious! You can\u2019t do that!&#8221; I know. That would be the sensible reaction to have. You\u2019re not 49. You\u2019re 69.<\/p>\n<p>But, no, no, no, no, he identifies as a 49-year-old, he looks 49, feels 49, wants to be 49, wants an official age change. He may not get away with it, but don\u2019t laugh. Something like this is gonna happen. We\u2019re on that road now where this kind of absurdity becomes reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH:  He ought to be legally able to say he&#039;s 49 &#039;cause that&#039;s how he feels, that&#039;s how he identifies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":291675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dutchman Demonstrates the Absurdity of Transgenderism - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/11\/09\/dutchman-demonstrates-the-absurdity-of-transgenderism\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dutchman Demonstrates the Absurdity of Transgenderism - 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