Overview

• The dispute started when Riley Gaines criticized a Minnesota high school softball team for featuring a transgender pitcher.
• Simone Biles called Gaines “truly sick” and a “straight up sore loser” on X, proposing a separate transgender-only sports category.
• Gaines defended her stance that “men don’t belong in women’s sports,” rejecting responsibility for including transgender athletes.
• In a controversial move, Gaines invoked Biles’s testimony against Larry Nassar to draw a parallel between past abuse and current transgender athlete participation.
• A resurfaced 2017 Biles tweet mocking men competing against women has prompted renewed scrutiny of her stance on transgender inclusion.