59-year-old Janice Richardson faced unspeakable grief and survived a one-in-a-lifetime pandemic. She says she learned how to more fully cherish life.

When Kayley Whalen signed up for roller derby in May 2008, she lied about who she was.
“I was required to sign a code of conduct that stated, ‘transsexual women are allowed to join if it has been at least two years since surgery, per International Olympic Committee rules’,” she writes in a recent article for FiveOnFive, a roller derby magazine.

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