Riley Gaines fires back at Simone Biles after social media dispute over transgender athletes

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Simone Biles amazingly sparred connected societal media with OutKick big Riley Gaines Friday, and Gaines has responded. 

Biles took discourtesy to Gaines calling retired a Minnesota precocious school whose softball squad won a authorities title Friday with a transgender pitcher. 

Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete, threw a shutout to assistance Champlin Park High School triumph a authorities title. 

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Simone Biles and Riley Gaines

Simone Biles and Riley Gaines had a warfare of words implicit transgender athletes successful girls sports. (Imagn)

Gaines, the big of the "Gaines for Girls" podcast, noted that comments connected X were turned disconnected connected the Minnesota State High School League’s station with a photograph of the squad connected societal media. 

"To beryllium expected erstwhile your prima subordinate is simply a boy," Gaines wrote. 

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Biles responded, calling Gaines "truly sick" for her remark and saying Gaines should beryllium "uplifting" transgender athletes.

Gaines responded with a video connected societal media. 

"Yesterday, Simone Biles — the Olympic gymnast, the champion of the best, barroom none; determination is nary 1 adjacent remotely successful her league — I guess, successful an effort to beryllium inclusive and virtuous, decided to merchantability retired each girls who person dreams to execute and to succeed, and to specifically personally onslaught and assemblage shame me," Gaines said.

"Let’s get this straight. It’s my job. It’s the women’s job. This is what Simone Biles is saying: It’s the women’s occupation to find a mode for the men’s feelings to beryllium validated, for their individuality to beryllium affirmed. That’s not my job, actually, astatine all. So, to accidental I should beryllium doing this is insane. 

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Riley Gaines has championed fairness successful women's sports. (XX-XY Athletics)

"If she wants to usage her level to uplift men and women’s sports, then, by each means. But it’s surely not my job. And I don’t judge it’s the occupation of immoderate pistillate to bash this."

Biles’ comments to Gaines included a excavation astatine the erstwhile assemblage swimmer losing to Lia Thomas, a trans swimmer, successful 2022. 

"All of this campaigning due to the fact that you mislaid a race. Straight up sore loser," Biles wrote. 

"You should beryllium uplifting the trans assemblage and possibly uncovering a mode to marque sports inclusive OR creating a caller avenue wherever trans consciousness harmless successful sports. Maybe a transgender class IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for definite is nary 1 successful sports is harmless with you around!!!!!"

Simone Biles astatine  Olympics

Simone Biles of the U.S. during the women’s squad last astatine the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games astatine Bercy Arena July 30, 2024. (Kyle Terada/USA Today Sports)

Gaines besides addressed a 2nd station from Biles, which told Gaines to "bully idiosyncratic your ain size, which would ironically beryllium a male."

"Number one, she's acknowledging determination are differences, similar physiological, biologic differences, betwixt men and women successful saying this," Gaines responded. "Secondly, I'm 5-foot-5, which mightiness look similar a elephantine to idiosyncratic who's like, 4-foot-7, 4-foot-8, but I'm beauteous modular size for a woman, just, like, comparatively muscular, right? Being an athlete, I would ideate Simone would recognize that. 

"But I measurement similar 135 pounds, 5-foot-5 of beauteous overmuch axenic muscle. Again, if anyone would recognize that, you would deliberation it's Simone Biles, a pistillate who has historically been scrutinized for having a precise muscular, masculine-looking body."

Finally, Gaines commended Biles for calling retired the horrible intersexual maltreatment acts committed by erstwhile Team USA gymnastics doc Larry Nassar. However, Gaines believes there’s a contradiction.

Riley Gaines testifying

Riley Gaines is sworn successful during a House Oversight Subcommittee connected Health Care and Financial Services proceeding connected Capitol Hill Dec. 5, 2023, successful Washington, D.C.  (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

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"This is simply a pistillate who has been incredibly brave successful calling retired and witnessing the horrific intersexual maltreatment that she and hundreds of different pistillate gymnasts faced astatine the hands of 1 intersexual predator — that predator being Larry Nassar — successful the aforesaid breath, believing that susceptible women should beryllium forced to portion down bare successful beforehand of men and locker rooms, truthful agelong arsenic it makes the antheral consciousness happy," Gaines said. 

"If Larry Nassar came retired arsenic trans, I don't deliberation it's liable oregon harmless for him to beryllium housed successful a women's prison."

Studies person shown that astir 80% of radical judge that biologic males should enactment retired of girls and women's sports.

Fox News’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.

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