Gymnastics legend Simone Biles slams and dominates Riley Gaines for her transphobic stance

she does better than fat old white man posting on a running message board

That's why "competing in men's gymnastics" has never been an option for a trans woman. She wants to do beam and uneven bars, not still rings and pommel horse.

I am someone who believes that it is unfair for trans women to compete against cis women in sports. They very clearly have an unfair advantage which is why, when polled a MAJORITY of people agree they shouldn’t be allowed.
With that being said, my generous opinion on Riley Gaines was that she’s approaching her “advocacy” the wrong way. My honest opinion is that she’s an embarrassing bully.
I feel like this issue first hit national news in 2018-2020 with the trans high school sprinters in Connecticut. A few of their cis competitors spoke about about them competing. Those girls, even though they were younger than Riley, were careful and composed in their messaging, making sure their issue was not personal, but rather with CT’s ridiculous policy that you can identify as a girl without any sort of material proof, and compete with girls.
But when you see Riley, searching across the country to places she’s never been to attack literal KIDS she’s never met, it’s ugly. It’s disgusting. It’s a turn off. know the policy is unfair but watching grown adults do this over something that’s not a life or death issue is crazy to me.
Talk about individual state policies. Don’t repost pictures of high school kids you don’t know. I don’t agree with Simone here, and for what it’s worth I thought her tweets were below the belt too, but I get the urge to confront a total bully with their own medicine. And like I said, I don’t agree with Simone but I’m choosing to respect her opinion because she’s a world class female athlete with skin in the game herself. I’m not going to say she doesn’t know what she’s talking about because clearly she does.
Riley then attacked Simone reposting pictures of her serial s**ual abuser and that’s when I really had to roll my eyes. Whatever you think about trans girls playing sports, comparing them to satan himself is absurd, and shows how far down the rabbit hole Riley is.
Anyways TLDR if you really want to “save women’s sports” stop with the bullying tactics. Focus on state and governing policies. You look horrible when you attack young kids, no matter how right you think you are. And keep it in perspective. Trans women competing against cis women is unfair, but it doesn’t make trans girls and women who do it akin to the worst of humanity. Get a grip.

Are there trans women gymnasts who either want to or can compete at an elite level? Or even at NCAA level? Perhaps a non issue in W gymnastics? But very much an issue in most sports.

if you think using Simone's abuser against her or comparing trans girls playing sports to Larry Nassar is "epic" you take a good hard look at yourself. Using someone's abuser as a clapback is crazy.

If you think there aren't people like that running around pretending to be women just to get access to women's spaces you're insane.

Gaines cares about women and girls. You and Biles care about yourselves. Your virtue signaling is more important to you than the safety and well being of women and girls.

I'm choosing the side of the person who actually wins and not a 5th placer who thinks every deserves a trophy. Since when do people expect 5th place to get a trophy?

Couple of points

1) I guess we should assume that once Biles' career is over, she will be using her extensive platform and popularity to become the face of advocacy for a trans category across all competitive sport (which it's clearly obvious is an urgent need now, even if this category won't truly be "trans" it will biological males that have transitioned to women)

2) It still miffs me that none of these athletes (Biles, Hiltz, Rapinoe) who are such advocates for this cause, see the potential tone-deafness in the fact that not a single one of them personally has themselves had to compete against competitively against a trans athlete (biological male that has transitioned to and wishes to compete as a woman). Because to be perfectly honest, until you have, you don't have any right to comment on this the way you do. These high school/college girls that have had to compete against biological boys/men and have had their opportunities reduced (to win events, make finals, get starts etc etc) are the only ones that should be speaking out on this whether it is advocating for them or speaking out against it. Period.

Who are these people, and why do their opinions matter on whatever this issue is about? From the photos in this thread, they look like weirdos who don't think much. I'll bet they're both exaggerating about whatever they're saying. I can't be arsed to spend time figuring it out, since they both seem hysterical and stupid.

Wait, you are asking if what makes Simone Biles a legend is that she is black?

I don’t agree with her opinions about trans athletes in sports, but I mean come on. She won 30 Olympic and World Championship gold medals, many of them in dominant fashion, and changed the nature of the sport. It doesn’t matter what color she is — she is an absolute legend of the sport.

Biles would throw you to the ground, wrap her legs around your neck, and fart while crushing your windpipe.

It’s as crazy and silly as trans folks comparing their “plight” and “struggles” to the story of Emmett Till.

In horse racing they add weigh to even out them, add weight to the trans

The guy looks kinda normal. Why pretend he is a girl? Just embarrassing for a sissy.

Besides Biles’ fake TUE (to give her access to amphtamines) is she one of those gymnasts who also took drugs to stunt their growth? In her last Oly appearance she was so much older than most of the other competitors it was strange. Maybe she’ll start a trend and more and more older dopers will crowd out the kids in womens gymnastics.

Anyway, she’s a bitter hypocrite desperate to make herself relevant.