There are more than 60 cultures in the world globally today that still recognize more than two genders. Most of those genders have been limited down to two genders or sexes, because of colonization.

Meanwhile, so many different militaries have used trans and nonbinary people as spies or as people of the military, unbeknownst to most people, because there was that ability to be beyond the binary.

It's such a shameful part of anybody's military history, that they’ve used trans people but at the same time tell us that we don't exist.

My stepmother has a picture of Dick Tracy, a comic detective who would talk to his watch. If you look at the picture, it's essentially an Apple Watch. People back then would be like, "Oh, that's science fiction.”

But now it's not, because we've adapted, and we can do that in sport, too. People are always fearful of the unknown, and that's why I think people have such religious persecution -- it's easier to say you look different, you pray or practice differently, and so as a result, you must be something that's against me.

I've studied probably more than 25 religions and if you really study their teachings, I hate to break it to you, but it's all pretty much the same sort of teachings.

There's just different characters in each of them, and I'm not putting down any religion. I'm just saying that we have more in common than we have different, if we are willing to step outside of ourselves and see the capacity to grow as one.

The reason sport has such a difficult time with gender is because you'll hear, "It's just tradition. That's just how it is. That's how it's been."

Why can't we adapt and change? Is evolution not a thing? Has nothing adapted? Have we not grown?

[As told to @Ragi Gupta — continued]