Simone Biles, the most decorated US gymnast in history, had a total meltdown after former NCAA champion swimmer and women’s rights advocate Riley Gaines roasted a high school girls’ team for using a biological boy to win a state title.
On Friday, the 4A Champlin Park Rebels girls’ softball team won its first-ever state championship by a 6-0 score because of a boy pretending to be a girl. “Marissa” Rothenberger pitched a complete-game, two-hit shutout to get the win.
The Daily Wire notes that in the Rebels’ three-game tournament title run, Rothenberger pitched all 21 innings for his team, surrendering only two runs.
Upon seeing the team pose with their undeserved trophy, Gaines had a deservedly snarky response.
“Comments off lol,” Gaines wrote. “To be expected when your star player is a boy.”
Comments off lol
To be expected when your star player is a boy https://t.co/2qY2onUhNW
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 6, 2025
Then, out of nowhere, Biles went postal on Gaines for daring to make fun of Champlin Park for cheating.
“Riley Gaines, you’re truly sick,” she wrote. “All of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser.”
“You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports,” she added. “Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!!”
“But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!”
@Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender… https://t.co/pjpzuZ0AlO
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 6, 2025
Biles later told Gaines: “Bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.” Of course, given the fact that Biles stands 4 feet 8 inches tall, pretty much everyone looks like a giant to her.
bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male @Riley_Gaines_
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 6, 2025
Gaines, as expected, fired back in stinging fashion.
“This is so disappointing. My take is the least controversial take on the planet, Simone Biles being a male-apologist at the expense of young girls’ dreams?” she wrote. “Didn’t have that on my bingo card.”
“Maybe she could compete in pommel horse and rings in 2028.”
For those wondering, the pommel horse is a men’s gymnastics equipment used in the artistic gymnastics event at the Olympics. It’s debatable whether Biles could even make it onto the apparatus.
Gaines also added that she is 5’5″, which is about an inch taller than the average female in America—not exactly a giant.
And the subtle hint at “body-shaming” ???? Plzzzz I’m 5’5″
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 6, 2025
