It's really good to connect with other trans and queer people to move my body with, especially when I feel like my body is so 'other'.

When I’m in a space where I don't feel so othered I can say things like, "Oh my scars are aching today; or I don't have the full range of motion because my t-shot hurts; or I'm on my period and my body doesn't feel great".

I don’t have to deal with someone saying, "Oh, that's so weird, but you're a boy" or other gender stuff that happens in other spaces.

My group was passing around an article about how the marathons have just opened up a new nonbinary section. My local park run has a nonbinary section too, which is a big step forward. It's not perfect and they're not inclusive of the whole spectrum of gender. But they've got some feedback on how trans and gender nonconforming people can better access mainstream sports and activities.

It's been really good to find services that provide that access and are able to pass that on.

I found that a lot of cisgendered spaces -- even if they're LGB -- aren't necessarily that inclusive and you will get a lot of gendered language. The sports equipment, the way they categorise people for achievement, and race finish times are all very gendered.

By being so heavily gendered, these spaces become inaccessible and unsafe for you to move around as a queer person. I've definitely experienced that before transition and before having top surgery – running in binders and not feeling like I was able to tell the person that I was running with, "Oh, do you mind if I take an extra long break here, or go and adjust my binder".

Because even though it was restricting my breathing, I’d feel I'm outing myself if I communicated about it.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta — continued]