I did not have “Simone Biles attacks Riley Gaines” on my bingo card this week, and yet here we are.
Biles, of course, won 11 Olympic medals in women’s gymnastics, with seven of them being gold, while Gaines was a champion collegiate athlete in women’s swimming and became a fiercely outspoken critic of having men participate in women’s sports after having to compete against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.
Gaines has made it her mission to protect women’s sports and has been instrumental in legislation passed and signed into law at the state level, as well as the Executive Order on the issue signed by President Donald Trump in February.
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The Biles-Gaines X war started after Gaines responded to a tweet posted to a high school girls’ softball team’s account by noting that the tweet had the replies turned off for a reason:
Comments off lol
To be expected when your star player is a boy https://t.co/2qY2onUhNW
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 6, 2025
For some bizarre reason, this set Biles off, and she issued a very cringeworthy, very juvenile response:
You’re 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 category IN ALL sports!!
But instead… You bully them…
One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!
And in another tweet that a third grader would be embarrassed to write, Biles wrote, “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male @Riley_Gaines_.”
Conservative commentator and former ESPN co-host Sage Steele had one of the better responses, shredding Biles for her betrayal of female athletes:
Easy to say this @Simone_Biles when you only had to compete against fellow women. Every one of your Olympic medals came competing against fellow women. @Riley_Gaines_ was not only forced to compete against a man, but forced to share a locker room with a man. THAT is SICK. Shocked and disappointed that you’d attack another woman who has done nothing but uplift other women. If YOU think it makes sense to create a league for trans people, go for it! Use that huge platform of yours! But to attack Riley for what she has done for little girls who want to be the next Simone Biles is……..sick.
Christian writer Kaeley Triller also went off:
This is gaslighting, and the bully is you. You could be such a champion for girls; instead you’re playing handmaiden to the boys running roughshod over them.
Why?
For virtue signal points? Identities don’t play sports; bodies play sports, and make bodies have male privilege.
As we speak, little girls across the country are watching boys steal their state titles as they watch from the sidelines.
Where the hell are you? Give your pretty head a shake. You’re on the wrong side of history. Girls deserve bolder role models than the person you’ve become.
Friggin shame, man.
Gaines also pushed back:
This is so disappointing. My take is the least controversial take on the planet.
Simone Biles being a male-apologist at the expense of young girls’ dreams? Didn’t have that on my bingo card.
Maybe she could compete in pommel horse and rings in 2028. https://t.co/Ptn35pyEvh
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 6, 2025
They weren’t the only ones:
Okay you pick. Which of your friends on women’s gymnastics Team USA are you replacing with a biological male? https://t.co/TM8ulTqcFH
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 7, 2025
Simone should totally allow men to compete against her… if this is the sentiment. Because if it happened pre-medals, she wouldn’t have one medal or endorsement contract. It’s that simple. https://t.co/WzUNInLKaY
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) June 7, 2025
What an absolute shame.
She could use her podium to lift up women, but chooses to body shame, ascribe false motives and defend the absurdity of the situation @Riley_Gaines_ was criticizing.
This insane gender ideology weaponizes compassion and damages people’s ability to reason. https://t.co/GGMM7j7fwy— Fr. Joseph Krupp (@Joeinblack) June 7, 2025
And isn’t it especially interesting that Biles, like Megan Rapinoe, has conveniently taken this stance only after she’s hinted that she’s pretty much done with competing and knows she herself won’t have to compete against a trans athlete?
Disappointed to see this. But how easy it is to salt the earth behind you as you exit the sport and ensure future women won’t be able to achieve what you did. https://t.co/mqcTc2KCli
— Ashe Short (@AsheSchow) June 7, 2025
Let it be know that @Simone_Biles has chosen to stand with MEN in WOMENS sports not the girls losing their titles, scholarships, & privacy.
You don’t get to build your legacy in women’s sports, then advocate for their erasure.@Simone_Biles you NOT a champion for women. https://t.co/lPximrhBwb
— Kaitlynn Wheeler (@WheelerKaitlynn) June 6, 2025
Indeed. What a sellout Biles turned out to be. Truly disappointing. But thanks for bringing more attention to the utter absurdity of positions like yours, all the same, Simone, bless your heart.
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