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Updated · Fox News · Jun 30

Gaines, Skinner Urge Biles to Join Women's Sports Fight After 2026 Supreme Court Win

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Jun 30

Gaines, Skinner Urge Biles to Join Women's Sports Fight After 2026 Supreme Court Win

Q: Will Simone Biles and other sports icons now break their silence after the Supreme Court's landmark transgender athlete ruling?

There is no clear evidence that Simone Biles or other major sports stars will now speak out, even after the Supreme Court’s ruling. What has changed is the legal backdrop. The court’s 6-3 decision upheld state laws that restrict girls’ and women’s school sports to biological females, finding that states may adopt those rules under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause. But the ruling did not impose a nationwide standard, so the issue remains politically and legally unsettled across states. Biles is not truly “silent” on the subject, because she already weighed in publicly in 2025 when she attacked Riley Gaines on social media and later apologized. Gaines and MyKayla Skinner are now using the ruling to pressure Biles to revisit that stance and join their “Save Women’s Sports” campaign. So far, though, there is no public sign that Biles has responded to this latest appeal. The same is true for other icons Gaines named, including Caitlin Clark and Serena Williams. The available reporting shows no new statements from them tied to the ruling. More broadly, many prominent athletes had already taken sides before this decision, including Martina Navratilova in support of sex-based protections in women’s sports and Megan Rapinoe in support of transgender inclusion. The most defensible reading is that the ruling may increase pressure on high-profile athletes to speak, but it has not yet produced a visible wave of new public statements from Biles or other top sports figures.

2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 30

Riley Gaines and MyKayla Skinner used Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling upholding state women’s-sports laws to press Simone Biles to join their side, with Gaines calling the decision “vindicating.”
Skinner said the ruling pushed her to speak out as a mother and former Olympian, and directly appealed to Biles—her ex-teammate—to “stand with us” after last year’s public clash.
The appeal revives a feud that began on June 6, 2025, when Biles attacked Gaines over a transgender softball champion in Minnesota, then deleted the posts and apologized.
Skinner said Biles has previously belittled her and still “stands firm” on the issue, while Gaines said she would still “link arms” with Biles despite viewing the apology as damage control.
The court’s decision upheld state protections but did not decide whether schools may allow transgender girls to compete on girls’ teams, leaving that broader national fight unresolved.