We keep talking about trans athletes in sports, but look at Lance Armstrong – we’ve got athletes who’ve abused drugs in the system.

There's so much corruption but yet we're all fussed about gender. I don’t like picking and choosing words because we shouldn't have to, but it’s really challenging. If you say something silly, the media eats it up and it gets thrown out there in the worst possible way.

I never tell people that I'm a real man. I will never be a biological man. But I'm a gentleman. And I know that.

What the community is trying to fight for is just the inclusion of acknowledgement – that we're just we're people.

As a person, we still feel the same, give love in similar ways, speak similar words. So that's why gender stopped meaning something to me.

To take away the rights of someone's participation for what they love because of their gender is heartbreaking. All these people want to do is to play a sport and to be able to live that life because that's all they have. Or maybe that's all they want to do.

But our career path, our choices are now being made by someone else. So what does that give you left in life to live for, when you've had that decision made for you?

Why are other people making our choices for us?

Women who get breast cancer and lose their breast -- they didn't make that choice. But if a man were to judge her all the time, she's going to feel less of a woman, less of a person, all because of something that was out of her control.

Being transgender, it's like, “Well, I didn't choose this. I'm a man and this is who I am.”

But now I can't compete. I can't fulfill my life or that passion I have in sport, so what do I do? I don't think people understand that and maybe they don't have the experience or empathy to understand.