Simone Biles is minding her personal gold-medal enterprise—and but, someway, Riley Gaines can’t appear to maintain the gymnastics icon’s identify out of her mouth.
Over the weekend, Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer-turned-conservative tradition warrior, introduced her being pregnant throughout a public look. However as an alternative of holding the second concerning the new life she’s bringing into the world, she made positive to throw shade at Biles whereas doubling down on the anti-trans rhetoric that began this feud within the first place.
Gaines, 25, shared that she and her husband, Louis Barker, expect a child lady. However her announcement took a flip when she recalled how Biles lately known as her out on-line for concentrating on a trans highschool athlete.
“I feel the funniest factor about this to me, and her saying, ‘Bully somebody your personal measurement, which might sarcastically be a person’ … What number of males are you aware which have this?” Gaines stated, revealing her child bump to a cheering crowd.
This petty shot at Biles, 28, got here days after the Olympic gymnast took to X to sentence Gaines’ feedback a few trans teen athlete. Gaines had ridiculed Minnesota State Excessive College League’s softball champions, misgendering pitcher Marissa Rothenberger, a trans lady, and attributing the win to so-called “unfair” benefits.
That’s when Biles stepped in with a now-viral clapback: “@Riley_Gaines_ You’re really sick, all of this campaigning since you misplaced a race. Straight up sore loser,” she posted, referencing Gaines’ outspoken campaign in opposition to trans athletes following her 2022 loss to trans NCAA swimmer Lia Thomas. Biles continued, “You have to be uplifting the trans group and maybe discovering a technique to make sports activities inclusive, OR creating a brand new avenue the place trans [athletes] really feel protected… However as an alternative… You bully them.”
Biles didn’t cease there. She adopted up with one other message: “Bully somebody your personal measurement, which might sarcastically be a male,” earlier than offering extra readability and an apology for taking private digs at Gaines in a subsequent social media submit the place she known as for extra respect in conversations about trans-athletes, particularly when speaking about youngsters.
Biles hasn’t immediately responded to Gaines’ newest dig.
