The mental gymnastics of Simone Biles

Published June 13, 2025 5:10am ET



Simone Biles is an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, but she may also be a gold medalist in mental gymnastics. That or, perhaps, she is just a bit of a hypocrite.

On a random Friday, Biles decided to jump into the debate on transgender athletes in response to a post from former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines. Biles called Gaines “truly sick,” a “straight up sore loser,” and said “no one in sports is safe with you around.” Gaines’s crime is opposing biological boys in girls’ sports, where female athletes are injured by them, forced to change in locker rooms beside them, and lose out on roster spots and championships to them.

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