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Gymnast Simone Biles, who has won seven Olympic gold medals, is enraged at Riley Gaines, a 12-time NCAA All-American swimmer who has become a warrior in the fight to preserve women’s sports from the incursions of big lunkheads who claim to be women and win all the competitions. Biles think the fake women should be allowed to win all the women’s sports competitions, and that Gaines is an awful person for thinking otherwise. Yes, the world has become this absurd.

Fox News reported Saturday that Gaines “took to X on Friday to call out the Minnesota State High School League for posting a picture of the new state champions, Champlin Park High School. The school has made headlines because its dominant performance on the way to the title game was led by junior pitcher Marissa Rothenberger, a transgender athlete competing on the team.” Gaines noted that when it posted a photo of Champlin Park’s championship softball team, the Minnesota State High School League turned off comments, and remarked: “Comments off lol. To be expected when your star player is a boy.”

This drew a heated response not from Rothenberger or his teammates at Champlin Park High, but from Biles, who seemed to have been driven into a wild rage by Gaines thinking it improper for a guy like Rothenberger to be pitching for a girl’s team. Biles wrote: ” You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser.” That was a reference to Gaines finishing in a tie with a man, Lia Thomas, in the 2022 NCAA championships.

Biles continued: “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!!!!!” For good measure, Biles added: “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.”

The post went viral on social media, with Biles adding in another post, “bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male.” Who exactly is doing the bullying here, however, is not actually clear. Men who claim to be women and overshadow the hard work of actual female athletes aren’t the bullies, but Riley Gaines is for fighting back? What about the girl who lost a spot on the Champlin Park High School softball team because “Marissa” Rothenberger decided he was a girl? Does the championship make up for all her disappointment, wasted time, dashed hopes, and lost opportunities?

The crowning insanity of our insane age has been men not only competing in women’s sports but also receiving the full and self-righteous backing of the left. For years now, leftists have insisted, in the fullest Orwellian 2+2=5 fashion, that we all must pretend that these stubble-faced, musclebound poseurs are women and shout “You go, girl!” as they collect their gold medals.

Far from being a bully or a loser who is jealous of the delusional men’s attainments, meanwhile, Riley Gaines was a genuine female collegiate swimmer of considerable accomplishment. The University of Kentucky (UK) notes that she is a “multi-time SEC champion, conference record holder, NCAA silver medalist and record holder in six separate events at UK. She was most recently named the 2022 SEC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.” She was also “inducted into the 2022 UK Athletics Frank G. Ham Society of Character, one of UK Athletics’ most prestigious honors that recognizes student-athletes who show the utmost commitment to academic excellence, athletics participation, personal development, community service and career preparation.” Gaines’ sterling character showed through most clearly in her fearless willingness to go up against the left’s favored fantasies and delusions.

Back in March 2023, at the height of the left’s gender madness, she challenged ESPN directly in an X post for praising fake woman Lia Thomas: “Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, [sic] cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The @ncaa is responsible. If I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out. You’re spineless @espn #boycottESPN.” Exactly so.

ESPN and all the rest who perpetuated this outrage were indeed spineless. While leftists like to laud each other for being “courageous,” courage has been and remains nonexistent among the gender fantasists. In reality, they’re a bunch of fearful conformists who know that men are men and women are women, but don’t dare say so out loud for fear of suffering the inevitable professional consequences.

Oh, and then there are those who really are insane, or are so ideologically blinkered that they really believe that mutilating someone and pumping his or her body full of the wrong hormones will magically transform him or her into the opposite sex. Either way, it’s long past time that this insanity stopped being forced upon us. Simone Biles has chosen the side of insanity and genuine bullying. So much the worse for her.