The former college gymnast Riley Gains has made himself known for his trans criticism after coming in a shared fifth place in a race where a trans person participated. Ahead of his over 1.5 million followers on social media, he now shapes opinion against trans people's opportunities to compete in women's classes, reports NBC.
This has now made the star gymnast Simone Biles to frown.
”You are really sick, all this campaigning because you lost a race. You are a bad loser”, writes Biles on X, where she also suggests separate classes for trans people.
”You should lift up the trans community and find a way to make sports inclusive”.
Gaines in turn calls Biles' statement a ”disappointment”.
”My opinion is the least controversial on the entire planet”, Simone Biles as a male apologist (defender) at the expense of young girls' dreams? I wouldn't have had that on my bingo card”, writes Gaines on the same platform.
The question of gender identity in sports is widely debated, not least in the US. Several sports have reviewed their rules in recent years, and US President Donald Trump issued a presidential order as recently as winter to stop trans people from participating in women's and girls' competitions in the country.
