Riley Gaines responds after Simone Biles calls her out on social media

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Simone Biles surprisingly sparred on social media with OutKick host Riley Gaines Friday, and Gaines has responded.

Biles took offense to Gaines calling out a Minnesota high school whose softball group received a state championship Friday with a transgender pitcher.

Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete, threw a shutout to assist Champlin Park Excessive College win a state title.

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Simone Biles and Riley Gaines had a disagreement over transgender athletes in ladies sports activities. (Imagn)

Gaines, the host of the "Gaines for Girls" podcast, famous that feedback on X had been turned off on the Minnesota State Excessive College League’s put up with a photograph of the group on social media.

"To be anticipated when your star participant is a boy," Gaines wrote.

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Biles responded, calling Gaines "really sick" for her remark and saying Gaines ought to be "uplifting" transgender athletes.

Gaines responded with a video on social media.

"Yesterday, Simone Biles — the Olympic gymnast , one of the best of one of the best, bar none; there is no such thing as a one even remotely in her league — I assume, in an try to be inclusive and virtuous, determined to promote out all ladies who've goals to attain and to succeed, and to particularly personally assault and physique disgrace me," Gaines mentioned.

"Let’s get this straight. It’s my job. It’s the ladies’s job. That is what Simone Biles is saying: It’s the ladies’s job to discover a method for the lads’s emotions to be validated, for his or her identification to be affirmed. That’s not my job, really, in any respect. So, to say I ought to be doing that is insane.

Riley Gaines has championed equity in ladies's sports activities. (XX-XY Athletics)

"If she desires to make use of her platform to uplift women and men’s sports activities, then, by all means. However it’s definitely not my job. And I don’t consider it’s the job of any lady to do that."

Biles’ feedback to Gaines included a dig on the former faculty swimmer shedding to Lia Thomas, a trans swimmer, in 2022.

"All of this campaigning since you misplaced a race. Straight up sore loser," Biles wrote.

"You need to be uplifting the trans group and maybe discovering a solution to make sports activities inclusive OR creating a brand new avenue the place trans really feel secure in sports activities. Perhaps a transgender class IN ALL sports activities!! However as a substitute… You bully them… One issues for positive is nobody in sports activities is secure with you round!!!!!"

Simone Biles of the U.S. through the ladies’s group ultimate on the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer season Video games at Bercy Enviornment July 30, 2024. (Kyle Terada/USA At this time Sports activities)

Gaines additionally addressed a second put up from Biles, which informed Gaines to "bully somebody your personal measurement, which might satirically be a male."

"Primary, she's acknowledging there are variations, like physiological, organic variations, between women and men in saying this," Gaines responded. "Secondly, I am 5-foot-5, which could seem to be a large to somebody who's like, 4-foot-7, 4-foot-8, however I am fairly customary measurement for a girl, simply, like, comparatively muscular, proper? Being an athlete, I'd think about Simone would perceive that.

"However I weigh like 135 kilos, 5-foot-5 of just about pure muscle. Once more, if anybody would perceive that, you'd suppose it is Simone Biles, a girl who has traditionally been scrutinized for having a really muscular, masculine-looking physique."

Lastly, Gaines recommended Biles for calling out the horrible sexual abuse acts dedicated by former Crew USA gymnastics physician Larry Nassar. Nevertheless, Gaines believes there’s a contradiction.

Riley Gaines is sworn in throughout a Home Oversight Subcommittee on Well being Care and Monetary Providers listening to on Capitol Hill Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Drew Angerer/Getty Pictures)

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"This can be a lady who has been extremely courageous in calling out and witnessing the horrific sexual abuse that she and a whole bunch of different feminine gymnasts confronted by the hands of 1 sexual predator — that predator being Larry Nassar — in the identical breath, believing that susceptible ladies ought to be compelled to strip down bare in entrance of males and locker rooms, as long as it makes the person really feel completely happy," Gaines mentioned.