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Riley Gaines pointed out the contradiction Simone Biles A personal attack on her as trans athletes sought a possibility of a third category to compete.
Gaines broke a social media post directed at her by Biles in a recent episode of Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” Podcast. The former NCAA national swimmer spoke specifically about Olympic gymnasts, begging them to create a “new pathway where trances feel safe in sports,” and pleading them to provide the idea of ​​”trans, all sports, trans categories.”
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Simone Biles and Riley Gaines are shown in the photographs. Biles launched a personal attack on Gaines on Friday. (image)
“I don’t think she’s noticed in that one sentence that these people say, ‘They’re trans women’s, acknowledge that they’re really male,” Gaines said. “She admits by saying we should have a third category, and I hope she understands that.
“Secondly, this has been done many times now. Fina (now known as the Aquatics of the World) is the governing body of international swimming and did this very quickly. Following the national championships, they created an international and truly high-level competition.
World Aquatics has developed an open category for trans athletes who are forbidden to compete with the genders they identify. Leah Thomas challenged the organization’s rules change and lost last year at the Court of Arbitration of Sports.
The Fina World Championships held in Rome on July 25th, 2009 featured the logos of the international governing body for swimming, diving, water polo, synchronous swimming and open water swimming. (Martin Bureau/AFP via Getty Images)
Additionally, World Aquatics was forced to dispose of it Open Category Race There is a lack of interest at the 2023 Berlin Swimming World Cup.
“The compromise you’re trying to make should not come to me with that,” Gaines said. “You should go on the other side and see how they feel about this compromise because it’s a compromise they don’t want to make.”
July 25, 2024; Paris, France. Simone is currently undergoing a practice session before the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Bercy Arena. (Kyle Terada-Usa Today Sports)
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Thomas won NCAA 2022 Championship. Almost three years later, the NCAA changed its gender participation policy to coincide with President Donald Trump’s “no man in women’s sports” executive order.
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