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It turns out women should be helping men take over their sports.
Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles has called former US swimmer and activist Riley Gaines “sick” over online comments about a transgender woman softball player.
Gaines, who has regularly spoken out about transgender women athletes competing in women’s sport, mocked Minnesota State High School League for removing comments on their post about the Chaplin Park girls’ team celebrating the State Championship. Chaplin Park’s team includes a transgender woman player.
“You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser,” Biles wrote on X.
Not straight up at all. That’s the whole point. It’s not straight up for male people to be allowed to compete in women’s sports, because male people possess a whole raft of physical advantages over female people.
“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,” continued Biles.
Why? The trans communniny does one hell of a lot of “uplifting” of itself already, so why should anyone else be helping them? Especially when what’s being “uplifted” is so counter-factual and so destructive? Why are women supposed to “uplift” the trans communniny instead of uplifting women?
And Ms Biles’ scores on pommel-horse or rings should determine her placement in future meets?
Neither of those is in women’s gymnastics.
Colin Day, I believe that is JtD’s point. Biles knows as much – she even posted a Tweet to that effect some time ago. 2019? I shall have to check.
My mistake; it was 2017.
On 10/11/17 Simone Biles tweeted: