There are a lot of sports, like watersports, where gender euphoria and dysphoria come in a lot more strongly, depending on what you have to wear. Whereas in running, we're pretty lucky. There's a wide range of things from one gender to another – maybe the length of your shorts change, but maybe not.

It's definitely been simplified for me post-transition, in terms of not having to worry about a sports bra or having your period during a race, and that's pretty euphoric, that freedom.

But it is still kind of funny, because you'll always have these incidents: there was someone in a 200 mile race who was talking about their sports bra chafing, and I was like, "Oh, you should try this." And they sometimes look at you like, "Well, how do you know that?"

It’s been euphoric post-transition, but there's also a certain amount of dysphoria with any trans person in terms of how much do we divulge about our past life?

Sometimes you want to out yourself because you want to identify yourself as a safe person. One of the disadvantages of running as a male-presenting human is that women might be more afraid of you.

If I accidentally run up behind somebody on the trail, I don't want to scare them, or have them think that I'm going to attack them, but I also don't want to say, "Oh, don't worry. I'm queer!"

And that is one of the interesting pieces about trusting. I walk into a lot of spaces where I'm not as trusted because I am presenting as someone who might be a lot more of a ‘threat’ than former lesbian me.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta — continued]