DOJ sues Maine implicit transgender athletes
Simone Biles took purpose astatine erstwhile U.S. NCAA swimmer turned blimpish pundit Riley Gaines connected Friday implicit the latter's caller comments advocating for the exclusion of transgender athletes successful women's sports.
Gaines was among much than a twelve assemblage athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA successful March 2024, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to vie astatine the nationalist championships successful 2022. In that championship, Thomas and Gaines tied for 5th but lone Thomas was handed the fifth-place trophy successful the 200-yard final. Since then, Gaines has go an activistic staunchly opposed to having transgender athletes successful women's sports.
Recently, Gaines' commentary has besides included spotlighting and, successful immoderate cases, vilifying transgender younker for their engagement successful women's and girls' sports. On Friday, she targeted the Minnesota State High School League for not allowing comments connected their station astir the Chaplin Park girls' squad celebrating the authorities championships. Chaplin Park's squad includes a trans-athlete.
"Comments disconnected lol," Gaines commented in a station connected X. "To beryllium expected erstwhile your prima subordinate is simply a boy."
Biles, an outspoken campaigner for intelligence wellness consciousness passim her career, rapidly criticized Gaines' comments connected societal media.
"You're genuinely sick, each of this campaigning due to the fact that you mislaid a race," Biles said, referencing Gaines' fifth-place finish.
"Straight up sore loser. You should beryllium uplifting the trans assemblage and possibly uncovering a mode to marque sports inclusive oregon creating a caller avenue wherever trans consciousness harmless successful sports," Biles continued. "Instead...you bully them. One things for definite is nary 1 successful sports is harmless with you around!"
She added: "Bully idiosyncratic your ain size, which would ironically beryllium a male."
Gaines responded to Biles successful follow-up posts, saying the seven-time golden medalist's stance connected transgender athletes was "so disappointing" and labeled her a "male-apologist astatine the disbursal of young girls' dreams."
The erstwhile swimmer insinuated that Biles should enactment successful men's gymnastics owed to her viewpoints.
"Maybe she could vie successful pommel equine and rings successful 2028," Gaines said.
Gaines besides brought up Larry Nassar, a erstwhile nationalist squad doc who sexually abused aggregate U.S. gymnasts, including Biles, nether the guise of aesculapian treatment.
"All the horrific intersexual maltreatment @Simone_Biles witnessed and spoke retired against caused by 1 man, yet believes women should beryllium forced to portion bare successful beforehand of men to validate the man's feelings. You cognize however galore golden medals you'd person if your 'inclusive' imagination came true? Zero," she wrote.
Lucia Suarez Sang is an subordinate managing exertion astatine CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the manager of integer contented astatine FOX61 News successful Connecticut and has antecedently written for outlets including FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald.
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