The sports icon had previously come out as gay and championed LGBTQ+ rights and representation throughout their career, but has since updated their fans and followers on they prefer to self-identify. “I’m Nikki and I’m transgender.
That means I don’t identify with the gender I was assigned at birth. The word I use currently to describe my gender is non-binary.
The best way I can explain my gender is as fluid,” Hiltz wrote introducing themselves on Instagram. The professional runner continued to open up about now identifying as trans and non-binary. “Sometimes I wake up feeling like a powerful queen and other days I wake up feeling as if I’m just a guy being a dude, and other times I identify outside of the gender binary entirely.