Simone Biles, Riley Gaines clash on social media over men in women's sports

Gymnastics Olympic gold-medalist Simone Biles and former college swimmer Riley Gaines are sparring on the social media platform X over men competing in women's sports. 

The feud started Friday night when Gaines posted a picture of a high school softball team in Minnesota that won the state championship. The team had a transgender woman on the team who was the pitcher, according to reports. 

Gaines reposted the picture on X and captioned it, "Comments off lol. To be expected when your star player is a boy". 

Gaines' post resulted in Biles responding by saying that no one is safe in sports with Gaines around, and she should be uplifting the transgender community. 

"You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race," Biles wrote on X. "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 category IN ALL sports!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!"

Gaines is a former NCAA swimmer who is one of the most vocal of athletes advocating against males competing in women's sports due to her racing against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. 

Gaines responded to Biles in a post that reads: "This is actually so disappointing. It's not my job or the job of any woman to figure out how to include men in our spaces. You can uplift men stealing championships in women's sports with YOUR platform. Men don't belong in women's sports and I say that with my full chest."

In a separate post on X, Biles also told Gaines to pick on someone her own size, "which would ironically be a male."