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A Vision... or Two or Three or Maybe More...
Such a Board is not beyond the pale... Tri-Ess is already broken down into regions, each region elects two members of the executive board plus three elected at large (always want to have an odd number to avoid tie votes) and then they elect and manage the policies of the organization, policies that the executive director follows rather than the other way around. It's doable—it just takes a willingness on the part of those interested in seeing that it gets done.
Not only would there be a reflection of what the concerns of the membership are but there would also be an annual, certified audit of the books, there would be bidding on the publications rather than the closed-door approach that is apparently the case now, and on and on.
I also see a respected Tri-Ess, one that promotes an understanding of crossdressing in all of its manifestations and not just the criteria established some fifteen or more years ago.
Being a Cassandra, I'm afraid, though, that what we will all see is a declining and disheveled Tri-Ess as the management — I would not call it leadership by any extent of the word — continues to be a one-person show with the trappings of a rubber-stamp board. When everyone in the organization says the same thing, only one person is doing any of the thinking.
