When I came out in my wrestling career, it was important for me to show trans youth that it does get better. It was also important for me to be out so that I could maybe change the hearts and minds of those who might not even like trans people.

If they enjoy me, and they enjoy my work as a wrestler. They might feel like "Oh, maybe I'm wrong about trans people."

There's other trans athletes like AEW's Nyla Rose, who is a trans woman, and she's on national television, and she gets to show people who a trans woman can be through different aspects.

That's what I kind of hope happens with my career: that people might start voting differently or having different feelings about how trans people should be treated.

I'm hoping for a future of gender affirmation where we treat people as they are and just let them participate in sports with the gender they are without any questions.

Wrestling is very visual, and look-based. So sometimes I'll get on and wish I looked a little bit more this way, a little bit more that way. But that’s more in my head.

It is really re-affirming to be known as a non-binary person with colleagues, athletes and an audience that accepts me for who I am.

It gives me this great adrenaline rush, especially when the crowd gets behind me. The more I'm around my colleagues and the audience, the focus on looks goes away and doesn’t matter as much.

When people worry about things being easier for masculine people over feminine people, I tell them, it really depends on your training.

People watching women's MMA from the couch, will sometimes be like, "Well, men could do this."

But all those women could beat up half the men in the world because they've trained for it. Things should be based on your skill level, not what someone might perceive as your gender identity based on what's in your pants, or whatnot.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta ]