Riley Gaines responds after Simone Biles calls her on social media
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Simone Biles Surprisingly, Outkick host Riley Gaines sparred on social media on Friday, and Gaines replied.
Biles attacked Gaines. Minnesota High School The softball team won the state championship on Friday as a transgender pitcher.
Transgender athlete Marissa Rothenberger threw a shutout to allow Champlin Park High School to win the state title.
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Simone Biles and Riley Gaines went on a war of words over transgender athletes in women’s sports. (image)
Gaines, host “Gaines for Girls” The podcast noted that comments about X were turned off in the Minnesota State High School League post with photos of the team on social media.
“You’re expected when your star player is a boy,” Gaines wrote.
Biles responded, calling Gaines “really sick” for her comments, and saying Gaines should “excite” trans athletes.
Gaines responded with a Social media videos.
“Yesterday, Simone Biles – Olympic gymnastthe best, no bar. No one is even remote in her league. I think I sold out every girl who has dreams of achieving and succeeding to be inclusive and integrity, especially personally attacking me and shamed me,” Gaines said.
“Let’s straighten this. It’s my job. It’s the job of women. This is what Simone Villes says. You can find a way to validate men’s emotions. Your identity is affirmed. That’s not my job.
Riley Gaines defends the fairness of women’s sports. (xx-xy track and field)
“If she wants to use the platform to raise male and female sports, then that’s certainly not my job. And I don’t think it’s a woman’s job to do this.”
Biles’ comments on Gaines included excavations at a former college swimmer who was defeated in 2022 by trans swimmer Leah Thomas.
“It’s all about this campaign because you lost the race. It straightens the pain of the losers,” Biles wrote.
“We should raise the trans community, perhaps find ways to make sports inclusive and create new pathways where trance feels safe in sports. It’s probably the transgender category of all sports!!
On July 30, 2024, the Simone Biles of the US during the women’s team finals at the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Game held at Bercy Arena. (Kyle Terada/USA Today Sports)
Gaines also worked on a second post from Biles, telling Gaines “ironically bullying your own size.”
“Number one, she admits there are differences between men and women when saying this, including physiological and biological differences,” Gaines replied. “Secondly, I’m 5’5. This might seem like a giant to someone like 4’7, 4’8, but for women it’s a pretty standard size.
“But I get as heavy as 135 pounds, 5 feet 5 feet 5 feet pure muscles. Again, if anyone understands it, you’d think it’s a woman who’s historically scrutinized for having a very muscular, masculine body.”
Finally, Gaines praised Biles for calling for the horrifying sexual abuse committed by former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nasser. However, Gaines believes there is a contradiction.
Riley Gaines was sworn in at the House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittee on December 5, 2023, on Washington, DC, on the House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittee on Healthcare and Financial Services Hearings in Capitol Hill. (Drew Anger/Getty Images)
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“This is a woman who witnessed the horrific sexual abuse that faced the hands of her and hundreds of other female gymnasts, the horrific sexual abuse that predators were Larry Nasser, and believes that in the same breath, a very brave and vulnerable woman should be forced to nude naked in front of the locker room with the man.
“If Larry Nasser came out as a trans person, I don’t think it would be liable or safe for him to be held in a women’s prison.”
Research shows that nearly 80% of people believe that biological men should stay Girls and women sports.
Ryan Morik of Fox News contributed to this report.
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