Overview

• Simone Biles called Riley Gaines “sick” and a “straight up sore loser” after Gaines mocked a Minnesota high school softball team for featuring transgender pitcher Marissa Rothenberger in its state championship win.
• Biles urged the creation of a transgender-only category across all sports to foster inclusivity and safeguard transgender competitors.
• Gaines, who tied with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA championships, insisted men should not compete in women’s sports and described Biles’s intervention as “so disappointing.”
• The feud drew criticism of Biles from conservative commentators and led Gaines to share Biles’s own Larry Nassar testimony in a pointed rebuttal.
• President Trump’s executive order banning transgender women from female athletics has heightened the clash over fairness and inclusion in women’s sports.