Former NCAA swimmer and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines responded to Olympic gymnast Simone Biles after a fiery exchange on social media over the weekend, calling Biles’s attacks “venomous” and reaffirming her belief that transgender women should not compete in women’s sports.
The controversy began when Gaines criticized the Minnesota State High School League for turning off comments on a post celebrating the championship of the Champlin Park High School girls softball team, which has a transgender athlete.
“Comments off lol,” Gaines wrote on X. “To be expected when your star player is a boy.”
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Biles, a seven-time Olympic medalist and public figure, entered the fray, accusing Gaines of being a “sore loser” who is “truly sick.”
She said Gaines’s activism was driven by bitterness over
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