
Simone Biles' attack on Riley Gaines shows the hypocrisy of liberals' supposed ‘be kind' movement
The GOAT could not stick this landing because she started on wobbly ground.
On Friday, Simone Biles took aim at former college swimmer Riley Gaines' activism to keep female sports female and tossed in a nasty swipe at her physical appearance.
Pretty rich for a body positivity crusader.
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Biles fired away at Gaines, after she noted Marissa Rothenberger, a highly successful trans high school softball player, was 'a boy.'
7 Transgender pitcher Marissa Rothenberger pitched Champlin Park to become Minnesota state champions.
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7 After competing against trans swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022, Riley Gaines became a staunch advocate for fairness in women's sports.
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Biles wrote on X that Gaines was 'truly sick. All of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans [people] feel safe in sports…'
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For good measure, she added, 'bully someone your own size, which would, ironically, be a male.'
Biles showed that she's hasn't paid a lick of attention to this issue (the trans category has been attempted and failed in some cases).
However, it was nice of her to acknowledge the physical differences between the sexes.
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At 5 foot 5, Gaines is hardly an outlier. She is, however, in possession of sculpted guns that resemble the ones Biles has said caused her consternation in 2020 when she was part of a body positivity campaign by skincare line SK-II.
7 When it comes to gymnastics, Simone Biles is the GOAT but she was out of her depth going after Riley Gaines for her advocacy of female athletes.
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7 Trans softball player Marissa Rothenberger (center, in glasses) led their school to a Minnesota state championship.
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7 Simone Biles tweeted that Riley Gaines is 'truly sick' on X and later compared her 5 foot 5 to a man's.
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'I'd be lying if I told you that what people say about my arms, my legs, my body… of how I look like in a dress, leotard, bathing suit or even in casual pants hasn't gotten me down at times,' said Biles, who also became a mental health advocate after she dropped out of the Tokyo Olympics.
Biles is not only wrong on the substance but her petty insult shows the absolute emptiness and hypocrisy of the 'be kind' brigade that populates the lefty celebrity ranks. Many of them flaunt their devotion to respect and inclusion, so long as they don't have to include anyone outside of their rarefied ideological circle jerk.
Even worse, these fluffy, meaningless platitudes had long been weaponized to shut down dissent.
Coming to Biles' defense, 'USA Today' columnist Nancy Armour debuted some gymnastics skills of her own. She had to twist her mind and then bury her head in the sand to write a sycophantic piece, which included the following denunciation of Gaines: 'There is no scientific evidence that transgender women athletes have a physical advantage over cisgender women athletes, but that hasn't stopped Gaines from claiming they do. She insists they are 'robbing' cisgender women of places on the podium…'
7 In 2020, Simone Biles took part in a campaign against body shaming and then publicly mocked Riley Gaines's 5 foot 5 frame.
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I assume Armour, who disqualifies herself by using the word 'cisgender,' is writing about her own breathtaking ignorance, because of course biological men have a physical advantage over women.
And yes, many women and girls have lost out titles and medals — just follow the news cycle on a day ending in Y. In 2024, a UN study said trans athletes had taken 900 medals from women.
Biles is lucky she has female opponents — something she herself noted in 2017 during the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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'Ahhhh good thing guys don't compete against girls or he'd take all the gold medals !!' she wrote of Xio Ruoteng in the men's individual all-around.
7 Former college swimmer Riley Gaines has been at the forefront of the movement to keep women's sports free of biological males.
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The seven-time gold medalist is an athletic marvel who has redefined the sport both in and out of the gym. In 2021, she testified in front of a Senate Judiciary Committee about the abuse she suffered at the hands of sicko Larry Nasser — a travesty very much connected to women's safety and this trans debacle.
Gaines is not on some personal revenge campaign over tying with trans swimmer Lia Thomas, rather she was the first brave soul to say, enough is enough in an atmosphere that was exalting Thomas at every turn.
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She not only said no to competing against men, but she also dropped a resounding no to having to sharing a locker room with him. She ran headfirst into the fire, making it easier for others to say the thing that everyone was thinking: that this is stunningly ridiculous, unsafe and unfair for girls.
The reality is, Gaines is attacking an illiberal system that has lied to boys and men, telling them that they can magically transform into a woman and the world will embrace them and champion them — even if their cause flies in the face of science, reality and the promise of Title IX.
And that very same system that told women and girls that they needed to sacrifice their wellbeing and achievements for the comfort of males.
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Many of these trans athletes are victims too — not of Gaines — but of that grand lie.
Biles, more than anyone should know that.

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