Overview

• On June 6, Biles took to X to call Gaines “truly sick” and a “sore loser” after Gaines criticized a Minnesota high school softball team for featuring a transgender pitcher, suggesting Gaines should uplift the trans community or create a separate transgender sports category.
• Gaines countered in interviews and on her ‘Gaines for Girls’ podcast, labeling Biles’s posts “venomous,” accusing her of hypocrisy and challenging why women must validate men’s identities in female sports spaces.
• Invoking Biles’s own testimony against Larry Nassar, Gaines argued that the gymnast should prioritize protecting female athletes’ safety and privacy rather than endorsing mixed-sex locker rooms and competitions.
• Social media users and several former teammates have largely sided with Gaines, overwhelming Biles’s comments sections with criticism and publicly backing sex-segregated athletics.
• Pointing to recent polls indicating broad majority support for biological-sex categories in sports, Gaines said the controversy has amplified her platform instead of undermining it.