Trans athletics is definitely not my personal battle
I was a MATHLETE as a kid. I was on the state math team from 8th grad through 12th grade, I took second place in the state in 8th grade, I got a high scorer reward sweater at nationals my junior year, and I was "keeper of the frisbee" for the Minnesota State Team my senior year. I was also in my school math team from 5th or 6th through 12th grade and was captain my senior year. Our team always did well.
I was also selected for the National Physics Olympiad Training Camp my senior year of high school, and attended.
I did an engineering trip to Japan called the Sony Student Project Abroad.
I was in French club, Youth Service Club, National Merit Society, the Gay-Straight Alliance, I attended the Japanese Mori No Ikke Concordia Language Village in Japanese with my cousin and sister (who later lived in Japan, Turkey, and Hong Kong), I took (and was absolutely horrible at) art classes
More important to me personally I was in an accelerated math program that met Thursday evenings, and took Calculus my freshman year, and had taken many college math classes by the time I graduated high school. I went to a modern physics summer camp at Northwestern University one summer. I took a C++ correspondance course. I used the Post Secondary Education Option in Minnesota to take classes at St Cloud State University, including Intro to Astronomy, Solar System Astronomy, French 3 and 4, and to do some observational astronomy and data reduction using a telescope with a ton of guidance (also my first linux experience). I also had a friend who briefly introduced me to the programming language BASIC. I participated in an online RPG on AOL and played computer games like Myst and King's Quest.
However I was also a very serious, and not very good, athlete. College athletic scholarships were a laughable idea I would like to point out. I did letter (in the letter jacket sense) in diving, but I also lettered in math team. Gymnastics-- haha no way.
I began swimming lessons while I was in preschool with my mom. I began gymnastics roughly while I was in kindergarten. I was not on a club team in either sport, but I continued lessons at private gyms and community pools and the YMCA until I was in junior high school. At that point, I was on my junior high gymnastics and swim team (South Junior High in St Cloud MN). Divers were required to be swimmers in junior high, but not high school. I swam breast stroke and back stroke. My freestyle was no good because of asthma. I never learned butterfly. But I do still love to swim, although it is risky because of seizures so I very rarely do. I continued to train in private gyms and public pools in the off season, until high school.
In high school, I was on the high school gymnastics team (St Cloud Technical High School), as an exhibition gymnast. That's below junior varsity, and does not score points for the team. My event was beam, which terrified me and I hated it. I dropped out my sophomore year, over that and tense team dynamics. I had also dislocated my elbow while trying to do gymnasics on our swingset in junior high, and made a really bad landing on a trampoline in high school. I was getting too big for the spotters to help me, and it was becoming dangerous. So I quit gymnastics. I was able to do front flips on the floor by myself and back handsprings, but not back flips (once, though, but only once). I was never able to do a kip. I was able to do front handsprings on the vault. I could do cartwheels on the beam and was working on front walkovers but didn't like them. I had a front sommersault dismount from beam. I could do flyaways and hip circles on bar. My splits were okay-ish. So... definitely time to quit, after all those years, though I did enjoy it a lot. I also trained a little at St Cloud State in the summer in addition to the private gym in town.
Anyhow, I was a varsity diver my sophomore and junior year, and was pretty decent in terms of what I was able to do, though lacked grace. My scores tended to range between 3.5 and 6.5. I was a one meter board diver, though I have used the three meter board and the trampoline training a couple of times, but not to do much, at St Cloud State in the summer in their diving well. During high school, I trained as much as 20 hours a week during the diving season, including more than an hour of morning practice three days a week where we did conditioning. The year that our team went to the conference competition, we ended practice with 500 situps and more than 100 pushups every day. We also ran bleachers and did burpees and used the weight room. I am going to give a technical list of the dives that I regularly did, for those who know diving: 101a, 201a, 301b, 401b, 103b, 104c, 203c, 302c, 402c, 5122, and it became crazy dangerous for me when I tried to do 5132. I was in the process of learning 403c and 303c and my 203c was still pretty much terrible but I was able to complete it. I was not usually competing 5111a or b but that dive was completely adequate. After the incident where I did a summersault and landed back on the board with 5132, my coach said, you need to choose between math team and diving. Well, that was clear cut. I was captain of the math team and on the state math team. My greatest achievement was roughly 16th place in the conference in diving, and we had some really good divers who had just joined the team. Oh well, bye bye diving. I sincerely missed it, and dreamt about it for more than a decade, literally, in my dreams. I tried to return once in grad school but it was completely laughable and I quit instantly.
In college at MIT we were forced to do PE. Yes forced. I did idk three semesters of swimming and one of archery, and dropped something like aikido once? No martial arts for me please.
At summer camp I think I have tried aikido and hated it, and kendo and thought it was fun.
That's probably the whole list of every athletic thing I have ever done outside of manditory gym class.
Oh yeah I guess my parents also signed me up for a basketball thing and a soccer thing when I was like 7. I doubt I touched the ball even once in the entire season. I spent the whole time chasing kids who were faster than me and having no idea what the game was about.