{"id":11493050,"date":"2025-06-07T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/?p=11493050&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=11493050"},"modified":"2025-06-07T16:29:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T20:29:28","slug":"simone-biles-riley-gaines-trans-athlete-comment-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2025\/06\/07\/simone-biles-riley-gaines-trans-athlete-comment-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Simone Biles slams \u2018sore loser\u2019 Riley Gaines for \u2018bullying\u2019 trans teen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2024\/12\/30\/biggest-sports-stories-2024-shohei-ohtani-interpreter-scandal-simone-biles-olympic-comeback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simone Biles<\/a> took former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/simone-biles-riley-gaines-trans-athletes-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines to task<\/a> on Friday, after the now-conservative activist \u201cbullied\u201d a transgender teen athlete.<\/p>\n<p>On X, the Olympic gold medalist, 28, dubbed 25-year-old Gaines \u201ctruly sick\u201d and a \u201csore loser\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1931057465887728023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaines misgendered a high school softball player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gaines earlier quoted a tweet from the Minnesota State High School League, which celebrated \u201cChamplin Park, the Class AAAA Softball State Champion for 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Riley_Gaines_<\/a> You\u2019re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pjpzuZ0AlO\">https:\/\/t.co\/pjpzuZ0AlO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Simone_Biles\/status\/1931129527679308054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cComments off lol,\u201d sniped Gaines. \u201cTo be expected when your star player is a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Biles backflipped in to call out Gaines for \u201ccampaigning because you lost a race,\u201d referring to a 2022 NCAA swimming event in which Gaines competed against trans athlete Lia Thomas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!!\u201d Biles continued. \u201cBut instead\u2026 You bully them\u2026 One thing for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Gaines admitted she was disappointed by Biles\u2019 response, she came back swinging, calling the gymnast a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1931134784241119360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cmale-apologist at the expense of young girls\u2019 dreams.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not my job or the job of any woman to figure out how to include men in our spaces,\u201d she said. \u201cYou can uplift men stealing championships in women\u2019s sports with YOUR platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1931130376509919663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Men don\u2019t belong in women\u2019s sports<\/a> and I say that with my full chest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The digital back-and-forth comes just over a year after several college athletes, including Gaines, filed a lawsuit accusing the NCAA of violating Title IX by allowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liakthomas\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lia Thomas<\/a> to compete in the 2022 swimming national championships in Atlanta. 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