MAN, 69, CAN’T LEGALLY CHANGE AGE, COURT RULES

Dutch motivational speaker Emile Ratelband, pictured, may feel 49 but according to Dutch law he is still 69.

A court on Monday rejected Ratelband’s request to shave 20 years off his age in a case that drew worldwide attention.

“Mr. Ratelband is at liberty to feel 20 years younger than his real age and to act accordingly,” Arnhem court said in a press statement. “But amending his date of birth would cause 20 years of records to vanish from the register of births, deaths, marriages and registered partnerships. This would have a variety of undesirable legal and societal implications.”

Ratelband went to court last month, arguing that he didn’t feel 69 and saying his request was consistent with such forms of personal transformation as the ability to change one’s name or gender.