Simone Biles calls Riley Gaines 'sick' over criticism of transgender athletes
Simone Biles calls Riley Gaines 'sick' over criticism of transgender athletes
Gaines, 25, has become one of the most outspoken critics of transgender girls and women competing in female sports in recent years.
Imagine coming in fifth in a swim meet and complaining about how unfair it is you tied with a trans athlete. What sort of whiny loser does that?
Imagine abandoning everything else in your life to earn money from complaining about trans people for years after tying for fifth place with a trans woman at a college sports event. That's a special sort of whiny loser and grifter.
Getting that tie was the best thing that ever happened to her. No one would remember her if she just got 5th by herself. No one remembers who got 4th off the top of their heads. Who even won that race?
Such a crummy woman.
Simone Biles is america. her poverty and experience with race are our original sins. her story of survival in the face of sexual violence is half of our truth, and a truth half of us don't take the time to hear. her refusal to conform to the narrative assigned to her is our work ethic and our belligerence in the face of the exploitation we all go through. her being visibly supporting the queer people in her community is huge. it gives us a morale boost, and it also is a powerful act of allyship in that she is beloved in places that voted red this past fall. she's loathed in some of them for really gross reasons, but she has the ears of people who saw this and started the process of reconsidering
Woah, excellently put!
Queen GOAT