Riley Gaines And Simon Biles Clash Over Trans Athlete Debate

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Olympic gymnast Simon Biles and former collegiate swimmer turned-right-wing activist Riley Gaines traded barbs Friday over a transgender softball champion, whom Gaines called a boy before Biles stepped in to defend the player on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Gaines, an outspoken critic of transgender athletes in women’s sports, pointed out the Minnesota State High School League removed comments from a post showing the winners of a softball state championship, with Gaines insisting the turned-off comments were to “be expected when your star player is a boy.”

Biles responded to Gaines’ tweet a few hours later, calling her “truly sick” and saying her campaigning against transgender athletes was all because she lost a race in college, referring to Gaines’ fifth-place tie with trans swimmer Lia Thomas in a NCAA freestyle championship event in 2022.

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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2025/06/07/simone-biles-tells-riley-gaines-shes-sick-in-spat-over-trans-softball-champion/