Bobbie Hirsch advances across the hardwood gym floor, lunging forward with a foil in his right hand to touch his opponent in an attempt to score. In pairs next to him, fellow members of Wayne State University men’s fencing team practice, just a day before a couple of them leave for the NCAA championships in North Carolina. Hirsch has been fencing for eight years, beginning when he was 11 years old. But competition for the transgender male athlete has been different this school year. It’s felt different. “It was awesome,” Hirsch said of his first regional competition in September. “Everything…