This study explores how trans individuals struggle to make themselves intelligible as humans in a cis- and heteronormativecontext of sports and exercise. Ten trans people with present or prior experience in sports and exercise were interviewed. Theanalysis draws from Butler’s idea of trans people’s exclusion as a question of unintelligibility instead of oppression. The studydemonstrates three overreaching ways trans people make themselves discursively intelligible as humans: by passing as cis, bycoming out as trans yet mediating potential inconvenience this may pose on others, and by coming out as trans paired withchallenging cis- and heteronormativity. We argue that practices aligning to intelligibility as humans are key for trans people insports, exercise, and possibly in other walks of life.