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Riley Gaines pointed out a discrepancy in Simone Biles’ personal attack on her as she called for the possibility of a third category for transking athletes to compete in.
Gaines broke the social media posts aimed at her from Biles in a recent episode of Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast. The former NCAA All-American Swimmer spoke specifically about the Olympic Gymnast, where she asked her to create a “new avenue where Trans feels safe in sports” and offers the idea of a “transgender category in all sports.”
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Simone Biles and Riley Gaines depicted in a photo. Biles launched a personal attack on Gaines on Friday. (IMagn)
“I don’t think she is aware that one sentence admits these people who say ‘they are transient women’ are really only men,” Gaines said. “She admits it by saying that we should have a third category. I hope she is aware of it.
“Secondly, this has been done several times now. FINA (now known as World Aquatics), which is the international governing body of swimming, they were very quick to do this. After the national championships, they created a third category, even at the international, really high level, as they said we welcome to anyone who is non-binary, streets non-conforming, those who identify as a tremor, is welcome. ”
The World Aquatics developed the open category for transient athletes, which were excluded from competing against the gender they identify as. Lia Thomas contested the organization’s rule change and lost at the Court of Arbitration for Sport last year.
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A logo of the international steering body for swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and open water swimming will be shown FINA during the FIN World Cups in Rome on July 25, 2009. (Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images)
In addition, World Aquatics was forced to scrape its open category race in the Berlin world championship in 2023 due to lack of interest.
“This compromise you are trying to do not come to me with it,” Gaines said. “You have to go to the other side and see how they feel with this compromise because it is a compromise that they are not willing to do.”
July 25, 2024; Paris, France; Simone Biles during an exercise session before Olympic summer matches in Paris 2024 at the Bercy Arena. (Kyle Terada-usa Today Sports)
Thomas won a NCAA championship in 2022. Almost three years later, NCAA changed its genital participation policy in an attempt to adapt to President Donald Trump’s “No Men Men Men In Women’s Sports” executive order.
