Right now, there's a lot of people trying to drag us backward 50 plus years, and I just want the future of sports to become more inclusive.

We need to get away from locker room talk. More people need to speak up, and I think that they are. I hear how cis allies in locker rooms will sometimes stand up for trans people. But there's still a lot of room to be made there.

In terms of sports in the context of transgender athletes, I hope at some point, we can figure all that out. I understand it's a sticky situation. I hear all the arguments, and most of them are not in good faith. Most of them don’t look at evidence or existing regulations.

A great example is the whole thing with the Olympics, where people think, "Trans women are gonna come in here and clean up."

But in reality, trans women have been allowed to compete in the Olympics since 1980. Why haven't they been cleaning up this whole time? Oh, because there's not many trans athletes.

These silly cis men that sit on a couch and say, "I could take on a WNBA player one on one?"

No, you couldn't. You could do nothing of this sort. This is an elite level player you're talking about. You can find videos on YouTube of some influencer trying to say something like that, and they find a WNBA star, and they get destroyed every time.

So the way people think about athletic abilities and sports, is so skewed. I wish they’d look at the evidence.

I immediately started losing strength and athletic ability after I started transitioning. In two years, I've lost more than half my strength. I used to warm-up with 315 pounds deadlifting. Now I gotta dig deep to get three of those.

IOC had a policy where if you've been medically transitioning for two years, you compete in whatever category you want. That makes sense, because it is based on evidence. Why change this now?

[As told to @Ragi Gupta — continued]