I hope we can get to a point where everyone has access to sports and to whatever their passion is.

It was so powerful to see an out trans athlete like Lia Thomas compete and win the NCAA Division I national championship. At the same time, I was so drained to see the hate that was directed towards her and how the media handled it.

I can't imagine what it would be like for her or any high school trans athlete.

I think that more representation is really important, but it all starts with access to healthcare for kids and adults. Once we can get that, and educate people on trans health, it will expand to sports and schools.

We need more accurate information to be put out there, and I've been working on a project with another one of my core board members at NAGVA, where we're interviewing queer and trans volleyball athletes.

In an ideal world, we should just be athletes competing, and with some sports, it's really easy to make that happen. For example, with wrestling, if you weigh in a few ways, you make the array and then you compete.

So eventually, ending gender in general is kind of the end all be all, but that seems like such a faraway concept.

That's the ultimate goal and whatever and how many generations it takes because we all know that gender is just this concept that was socially constructed.

Ending it will take a lot of baby steps, it will take really a long time. But till then, giving equal access for everyone, especially kids is so important.

Not that it's easy, but as an adult, you still have access to certain resources that you don't have when you're younger.

We need to make sure that kids have access to healthcare and to a safe place to compete as an athlete or just exist as a queer person.

We need to be taking care of our trans youth and our trans people.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta ]