The Olympic Gymnastics champion, Simone Biles, has called the American Swimmer and Activist Riley Gain “sick” about online comments about a transgender softball player.
Ganes, which has regularly talked about the transgender athletes competing in women’s sport, mocked the Minnesota State Secondary School League for eliminating comments on its publication about the Chaplin Park girl team celebrating the state championship.
Chaplin Park team includes a transgender women’s player.
“You are really sick, this whole campaign because you lost a race. Directly loser,” Biles wrote in X.
Gaines tied in fifth place with the transgender woman Lia Thomas in the 200m freestyle in the 2022 NCAA Championship.
Later that year, World Aquatics voted to prevent transgender women from competing in women’s elite races if they have passed through some part of the male adolescents process.
Since then, Thomas has failed with a legal challenge to change the rules.
“It should raise the trans community and perhaps find a way of doing sports even or creating a new way where Trans is safe in sports. Perhaps a transgender category in all sports,” Biles continued.
“But instead … you intimidate them … one thing is surely that nobody in sports is safe with you.”
Biles, a seven times gold medalist, has been a transparent activist for mental health awareness during his career.
He retired from the final of the women’s team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021, as well as four Subsquent individual finals, to prioritize his mental health.
Gaines responded to Biles in the follow -up positions, saying that the position of the gymnast was “so disappointing” and saying that it should not legge transgender women in women’s sport with their platform.
Since he tied with Thomas in 2022, Gaines has said that Shhe felt “deceived, betrayed and raped.”
She has become an defender of prohibiting the transgender athletes of women competing against women and girls.
In February, Gaines was present at the White House when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed an executive order that excludes transgender girls and women from competing in women’s sports.
In April, the judges of the United Kingdom Supreme Court ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex under the Equality Law.
Since that ruling, several sports bodies in the United Kingdom, including the Soccer Association and the Cricket Board of England and Wales, have banned transgender women to play in women’s sport.
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