Simone Biles Thinks Men Should Be Allowed In Women’s Sports

The most decorated American Olympic gymnast in history, Simone Biles, may have bit off more than she could chew over the weekend when she hypocritically took aim at the woman touting the same kind of sex-specific protections that paved the way for her domination on the mat, beam, and vault.

The fallout started when Biles used her Friday night to snipe at prominent women’s sports defender Riley Gaines as a “bully.” Biles was upset that Gaines noticed the Minnesota State High School League turned off the comments on a post celebrating the victory of a softball team whose “star player is a boy.”

“[B]ully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male,” Biles wrote on X, tagging Gaines.

She followed her one-liner with another diatribe (that she shamelessly retweeted) calling Gaines “truly sick” and a “straight up sore loser,” which is rich coming from someone who once quit a key Olympic competition because she had a bad vault day.

One would think a woman who was preyed upon by a man who repeatedly took advantage of her would not oppose a movement that was built on the promise to protect other women. Yet, the gymnastics champion, who touts the “power of she” and takes public issue with negative discussions about someone’s build, did exactly that and more.

Bodyshaming Gaines, a fit 5’ 7” female, by comparing her physique to a male’s is not simply a low blow on Biles’ part. It’s an accidental yet important admission to the indisputable fact that men and women are biologically different.

As Biles’ post suggests, the widely recognized distinctions between the sexes go well beyond the XX and XY chromosomes in DNA. Men, on average, tend to be taller, heavier, and more muscular than women. This is especially true of male athletes, who the American College of Sports Medicine recognize as “stronger, more powerful, and faster than females of similar age and training status.” 

No amount of chemical castration or genital mutilation will change that, which is just one of the reasons why athletic organizations such as the NCAA have pivoted from embracing radical gender ideology accommodations to sheepishly ditching them.

The jury is still out on whether Biles’ NFL safety husband agrees that men should be allowed and even celebrated for infiltrating women’s athletic competitions. Biles’ public “female-only sport for me but not for thee” approach to the issue, however, is not only hypocritical, but incredibly unpopular. Approximately 75 percent of American adults oppose men shouldering their way into female sports. And with good reason.

Time and time again, men have tried to outperform women in their female-designated categories in weightlifting, track, cross country, tennis, MMA, wrestling, golf, cycling, BMX, and swimming (Gaines’ sport), surfing, and more.

Allowing dudes to beat up (sometimes literally) on gals who dedicated time and effort to perform to the best of their abilities is not “uplifting,” “inclusive,” or “safe,” as Biles purports. It’s a dangerous, demeaning, lose-lose decision that hurts women and all of the progress designed to protect them.

In addition to shunning her own sex, Biles has officially established herself as an opponent of the policy of the nation she’s represented at three Olympic games. According to President Donald Trump’s February 5th executive order, “It shall also be the policy of the United States oppose male competitive participation in women’s sports more broadly, as a matter of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth.”

Unfortunately for the nation and female athletes, Bile’s opposition the movement to save women’s sports from the transgenderism takeover is not her first bad take, and it likely won’t be her last.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.