Simone Biles, Riley Gaines’ Feud: What to Know

Simone Biles Slams “Sore Loser” Riley Gaines

Happening to catch Gaines’ post misgendering the teen softball player, Simone Biles wasn’t having it.

“You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race,” the seven-time Olympic gold medalist posted on X June 6, tagging Gaines. “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 feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!!”

She continued, “But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!”

The race Biles was referring to was Gaines’ fifth-place tie in the 200-yard freestyle with University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas, a trans woman, at the 2022 Women’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships.

Gaines publicly slammed the NCAA for allowing Thomas to compete in the women’s field. She later testified before Congress about what, to her, constitutes fairness in women’s sports and joined a dozen other college athletes in filing a 2024 lawsuit against the NCAA, alleging violations of their rights under Title IX.

In February 2025, the NCAA changed its policy to allow only athletes assigned female at birth to compete in women’s sports.