Kentucky Derby 2025: Will Simone Biles Enroll Her Future Kids in Sports? She Says… (Exclusive)
Simone Biles wasn’t afraid to dive headfirst into controversy to call out behavior she found toxic.
Riley Gaines—a former college swimmer who has become an advocate for banning trans girls and trans women from competing in girls’ and women’s sports—drew Biles’ ire June 6, when she mocked the Minnesota State High School League.
The league had turned off comments on an X post celebrating the 2025 Softball State Champion Champlin Park, whose 17-year-old star pitcher is trans.
“Comments off lol,” Gaines wrote. “To be expected when your star player is a boy.”
In a June 6 X post, Biles called the 25-year-old Fox News pundit “truly sick” and “a sore loser,” seemingly in reference to Gaines tying for fifth place with Lia Thomas, a trans woman, in a race at the 2022 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. The gymnast, 28, also slammed Gaines for sowing division and punching down instead of using her platform to find a way to “make sports inclusive” or create “a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports.”
Gaines, who also hosts the OutKick podcast Gaines for Girls, was unfazed, calling the 11-time Olympic medalist’s response “so disappointing.”
Of course, that was only the beginning.
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