The Issue: Simone Biles slamming Riley Gaines for not “uplifting” trans athletes in women’s sports
Simone Biles obviously attended former Vice President Kamala Harris’ school of nonsense speech.
Her apology tweet was straight up gobbledygook (“Finding Balance,” June 11).
Biles’ original tweet was much clearer in establishing her cowardice in supporting men in women’s sports, only once she herself had all her medals and bowed out.
Elizabeth Clancy
Barnegat, NJ
Simone Biles has seven Olympic gold medals tucked away safe and sound where no transgender female can defeat her out of them (“Gaines back flips script,” June 9).
In 2017, Biles tweeted that men competing against women could take away gold medals from women.
But now, Biles has blasted sports activist and former college swimmer Riley Gaines for consistently standing up for women’s sports to be for true women only.
I’d bet my last dollar that Biles is setting herself up for a lucrative deal to be a sportscaster in gymnastics.
She can’t do that if she doesn’t carry the transgender banner in support.
Dan Arthur Pryor
Belvidere, NJ
Oh, horror: A Biles tweet from eight years ago has been cited to justify the hate campaign against a trans athlete who actually shared her top spots with three biological females.
It says a lot that Gaines and The Post decided to gloss over that fact for their own pointed purposes.
Fredrick Beondo
Richmond Hill
I agree with Simone Biles that sports should try to be as inclusive as possible.
Yet female-only categories should be maintained.
And if all-female teams are competing against mixed-gender teams, there should always be an award for the top all-girl team, even if that team is not the overall winner.
This approach would allow everyone to compete while maintaining the integrity of all-girls teams.
Bruce Couchman
Ottawa, Canada
For those of you on Biles’ side, who think that transgender athletes competing in all-women’s sports is fair, I have one question I’d like answered: How are trans boys doing competing against biological boys?
Tom Vespo
Bethpage
The Issue: Activist Greta Thunberg’s deportation from Israel after her Gaza-bound flotilla was seized.
Greta Thunberg has the audacity to say she was kidnapped (“Greta refuses to watch 10/7 film,” June 11).
Get a dictionary and learn the meaning of the word “kidnapped,” Greta.
Innocent Israelis were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, rapists and murderers — and many of them remain hostages in horrific, inhumane conditions.
Yet she has never uttered a single word about them.
Her voice may have carried weight as a climate activist, but as for creating awareness of what is happening in Gaza, she knows nothing.
Betty Schwartz
Livingston, NJ
My recommendation to Greta Thunberg is to watch the Oct. 7 video.
If you know both sides of the story, at least people can’t call you ignorant.
Rob Spieler
Sharon Springs
Thunberg was drawing attention to an issue that she was concerned about, an activity she has been doing for years and developed quite a following for.
The Israeli military’s approach of storming boats with weaponry against unarmed civilians was a great way to bring Israel bad publicity, given live-streaming is so easy now.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia
Greta is an ignorant coward, unable to look the horror of terrorism in the face.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
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