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Olympic gymnast Simon Biles and former collegiate swimmer turned-right-wing activist Riley Gaines traded barbs Friday over a transgender softball champion, whom Gaines called a boy before Biles stepped in to defend the player on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Biles and Gaines exchanged words on X on Friday. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)
Gaines, an outspoken critic of transgender athletes in women’s sports, pointed out the Minnesota State High School League removed comments from a post showing the winners of a softball state championship, with Gaines insisting the turned-off comments were to “be expected when your star player is a boy.”
Biles responded to Gaines’ tweet a few hours later, calling her “truly sick” and saying her campaigning against transgender athletes was all because she lost a race in college, referring to Gaines’ fifth-place tie with trans swimmer Lia Thomas in a NCAA freestyle championship event in 2022.
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