Overview

• At the Young Women’s Leadership Summit on June 14, Gaines revealed she is 26 weeks pregnant with her first child, a daughter due in September.
• She quoted Simone Biles’s “bully someone your own size” remark to introduce her baby bump and draw a connection to their recent public feud.
• Simone Biles issued an apology for personal attacks in their dispute over transgender athletes, which Gaines accepted in a public response.
• Gaines initially rose to prominence by tying with Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA championships and later criticized a Minnesota high school softball team’s transgender pitcher.
• The Riley Gaines Act, inspired by her advocacy, has been enacted in several states to prohibit transgender women from competing in women’s sports.