Olympic champion Simone Biles referred to as fellow feminine athlete Riley Gaines “sick” for her activism in opposition to trans athletes in ladies’s sports activities.
As Breitbart Information reported this week, a transgender athlete helped a Minnesota highschool women’ softball crew advance to the state championship after a standout efficiency, together with two double hits whereas pitching an ideal sport with out substitution. The participant, Marissa Rothenberger, had reportedly “been dominating Minnesota softball all season and “and introduced “Champlin Park Excessive’s women’ softball crew out of obscurity, the place it has at all times been prior to now.”
On Friday, swimmer Riley Gaines, who grew to become an activist for ladies’s sports activities after being pressured to compete with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas within the 200-yard NCAA freestyle championship, responded to the controversy when the official X account for the Minnesota State Excessive College League celebrated the Champlin Park women crew in a submit that restricted replies as a potential try to beat back criticism.
“Feedback off lol,” stated Gaines as she reposted the crew picture. “To be anticipated when your star participant is a boy.”
Simone Biles later responded by calling Gaines a “bully” and a “sore loser” whereas demanding she struggle for sports activities to be extra inclusive.
“You’re actually sick, all of this campaigning since you misplaced a race. Straight up sore loser,” she stated. “You have to be uplifting the trans group and maybe discovering a technique to make sports activities inclusive OR creating a brand new avenue the place trans really feel protected in sports activities. Perhaps a transgender class IN ALL sports activities!! However as an alternative… You bully them… One issues for positive is nobody in sports activities is protected with you round!!!!!”
Riley Gaines referred to as Biles’ assault “disappointing.”
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