While many sports spaces can be places of toxic masculinity and surveillance, I think with spin it's different because a lot of people come to spin from a musical theater background.

It is definitely a sport where you get actors and dancers. They may not always necessarily be from the trans community, but there's already kind of an expectation of acceptance and it's quite a gay thing. That's how people feel about it, in both senses of the word.

In CrossFit, I’m trying to find a non-binary and trans-welcoming group, but I don't think I've seen one yet. But spin is more accepting.

Cycling is maybe slightly different. There's a group called Queers On Wheels, who I cycle with sometimes, but that's more for gay men. I think what you find in terms of the LGBTQIA+ community in exercise, is that 80 percent of it is gay men.

It's very, very hard to find groups that the non-binary and trans community would feel comfortable going to. I went to LGBTQI+ knockout boxing, and it was just cis men.

There's a huge gap in queer fitness that needs to be filled and provided for, and we're getting there. With Misfits, we're definitely getting there. But most LGBTQ fitness spaces are normally just for gay men to meet each other.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta — continued]