Argentinian Man Legally Changes Gender So He Can Allegedly Retire Sooner

Grow_peace_in_Bedlam · 2020-09-02T00:13:15+00:00

This is from a little over two years ago, but it highlights the issue of different retirement ages for men and women in many countries (and every country with gender-differentiated retirement ages affords women the lower age).

For context for this particular story, in Argentina, women can retire at 60, while men must wait until they're 65 (even though life expectancy at birth is 73 for males and 80 for females). However, Argentina also has a law that allows people to legally change their gender easily and without having to get gender-affirming surgery.

One man put two and two together and decided to legally change his sex to female just before turning 60, presumably to collect the retirement pension five years earlier.

I was moved by this story, with its protagonist slyly exploiting loopholes to avoid an extra half decade of soul-crushing work, all while calling attention to a rarely acknowledged legal inequality against men that exists in a non-trivial number of countries.

Until I heard about this interesting story last year, I had no idea that different retirement ages for men and women existed in so many countries. The unfairness of this situation for men is compounded by the fact that women outlive men in literally every country in the world (this interesting link has valuable data and charts about the life expectancy gender gap).

mynameisoops · 2020-09-02T04:30:07+00:00

The fact that this guy changes his gender to female is absolutely not the problem. The real problem is that women age retirement is around 60 and in males is 65. Why not just reducing both to 60, or rather increasing both to 65 so that makes a fair balance?? That would be the point.

liz_lemon_lover · 2020-09-02T12:30:37+00:00

As a woman, good on him. If women can retire earlier I see no reason why him changing his gender to take advantage of this early retirement is unethical.

Oncefa2 · 2020-09-02T00:47:13+00:00

Don't forget the savings you get on insurance for being a woman.

Egalitarianwhistle · 2020-09-02T02:17:38+00:00

Marry. Change to a woman. Divorce. Take everything.

Title	Argentinian Man Legally Changes Gender So He Can Allegedly Retire Sooner
Author	Grow_peace_in_Bedlam
Upvotes	0
Comments	14
Date	September 2, 2020 12:11 AM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates
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