2017 Post Comes Back to Haunt Simone Biles: ‘A Truly Sick Bully By Her Own Standard’

Amid backlash for her support of trans-identifying athletes — and a spat with former NCAA swimmer and Outkick podcast host (“Gaines for Girls”) Riley Gaines — a post from 2017 came back to haunt Olympic gymnast Simone Biles.

“ahhhh good thing guys don’t compete against girls or he’d take all the gold medals !!” Biles said in October of 2017, in response to a post that has since been deleted — but her comment came just days after Chinese gymnast Xio Ruoteng won gold in the men’s all-around competition at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Canada and may have been in reference to that. Biles had not competed there, but two of her Olympic teammates medaled: Morgan Hurd and Jade Carey.

ahhhh good thing guys don’t compete against girls or he’d take all the gold medals !! ???? https://t.co/gto13RzC8Y

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) October 12, 2017

Gaines highlighted that post on Sunday, arguing that it showed Biles was well aware of the obvious advantage biological men have over women when it came to athletic competition.

“Oop don’t you hate it when your past self completely undermines your current nonsensical argument? How has 2025 Simone reconciled with the fact 2017 Simone was a ‘truly sick bully’ by her own standard?” Gaines posted.

Oop don’t you hate it when your past self completely undermines your current nonsensical argument?

How has 2025 Simone reconciled with the fact 2017 Simone was a ‘truly sick bully’ by her own standard? https://t.co/aQjKuNSmMh

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 8, 2025

Biles had picked a fight with Gaines two days prior — after Gaines commented on the fact that a boy had been allowed to lead his school’s girls’ softball team to a Minnesota state AAAA title — and she claimed that Gaines was a “truly sick bully” for calling that out as unfair.

“You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser,” Biles said, making the attacks personal from the start. “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!! But instead… You bully them… One things for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around!!!!!”

Gaines pushed back, saying that neither she nor any other female athlete owed men the chance to take girls’ opportunities away.

In her response, Biles resorted to attacking Gaines’ physical appearance: “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.”

bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male @Riley_Gaines_

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 6, 2025