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At Atoot, we're always very encouraging of the boys around us to join, and we want them to be a part of our programming because allyship is so important.

Once you get the boys to understand how the girls in their communities have so many pushbacks, it creates more allyship and empathy, which the boys otherwise don't have because they've just always been put on a pedestal.

Growing empathy is a great way to gender equality and equity, and that can transfer over into the competitive leagues in making men understand and experience the setbacks and ridiculous restrictions that women athletes go through.

Sport is a great divider in some settings but it's also a great bridge in so many others. And that's the type of sport that we always encourage and bring opportunities to. We don't bring sport to our girls to just do something, we bring it to teach values, to teach education, to teach life skills.

Most importantly, we bring it to unite. Because what I want to see so much more throughout the world is allyship.

I hope that in the future, your gender doesn’t have an influence on whether you can play sport. If you're good enough, you're good enough. If you want to play on a certain team, it should not matter.

Whether you want to play on a women's team, or a men's team – everybody should be encouraging of that. And there should be no reason for these fights in the legal system.

In England, a lot of girls I know grew up playing in men’s teams, because they couldn't find a girls team. The families of the boys – mostly the fathers – would not like it, because the girls are beating them.

Who cares? Embrace it. It's not about being the best, it's about giving an outlet for so many and just championing one another.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta{