Roller Derby News Organization Clarifies Mission Statement to be More Trans Inclusive.
by: Michiko Ota
Mon Apr 04, 2011 at 12:33:18 PM EDT
http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/18979/roller-derby-news-organization-clarifies-mission-statement-to-be-more-trans-inclusiveFor those of us who watched the Dust Devil roller derby tournament on Derby News Network (DNN) this past weekend, you may have noticed that they have been heavily promoting a page to describe the organization's mission going forward.
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One statement that concerned me was DNN's wording expressing a commendable effort to encourage inclusion for all:
... continues to inspire strength, confidence, independence, camaradarie, and acceptance for women young, old, and in between; men, boys, and genderqueers as well.
As someone, who like some others in our sport, who has fought hard to gain inclusion of people in non-competitive aspects of our sport regardless of gender identity or expression as well as determining standards that permit those who have been diagnosed with gender identity disorder and are undergoing hormone replacement therapy to play competitively on a team that is congruent with their identified gender.
