‘TRULY SICK’

Simone Biles Clashes With ‘Sore Loser’ Riley Gaines Over Trans Debate

The Olympian dragged the former swimmer for her transphobic remarks.

Olympian Simone Biles isn’t one to back down from a fight. The gymnast, 28, went head-to-head with OutKick contributor Riley Gaines, 25, after she called out a Minnesota high school softball team that had a transgender pitcher. Marissa Rothenberger, a trans teen who led her high school to a state championship, was featured in a social media photo after the game. Gaines drew attention to the fact that the comments on the photo were turned off, and immediately decided to make a snarky comment: “To be expected when your star player is a boy,” she wrote. Biles, who saw the interaction online, decided to go to bat for Rothenberger. “All of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser,” she wrote to Gaines, referencing the fact that Gaines competed against trans swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022. Biles added that Gaines was “truly sick” for her comments and added: “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... But instead... You bully them... One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!” She added in another post: “Bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.” Gaines responded by calling Biles a “male-apologist,” and added: “Maybe she could compete in pommel horse and rings in 2028.”