Simone & Riley’s spat over women’s sports activities: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Simone Biles slamming Riley Gaines for not “uplifting” trans athletes in girls’s sports activities
Simone Biles clearly attended former Vice President Kamala Harris’ college of nonsense speech.
Her apology tweet was straight up gobbledygook (“Finding Balance,” June 11).
Biles’ unique tweet was a lot clearer in establishing her cowardice in supporting males in girls’s sports activities, solely as soon as she herself had all her medals and bowed out.
Elizabeth Clancy
Barnegat, NJ
Simone Biles has seven Olympic gold medals tucked away secure and sound the place no transgender feminine can defeat her out of them (“Gaines back flips script,” June 9).
In 2017, Biles tweeted that males competing towards girls may take away gold medals from girls.
But now, Biles has blasted sports activities activist and former school swimmer Riley Gaines for constantly standing up for ladies’s sports activities to be for true girls solely.
I’d guess my final greenback that Biles is setting herself up for a profitable deal to be a sportscaster in gymnastics.
She can’t do this if she doesn’t carry the transgender banner in assist.
Dan Arthur Pryor
Belvidere, NJ
Oh, horror: A Biles tweet from eight years in the past has been cited to justify the hate marketing campaign towards a trans athlete who really shared her high spots with three organic females.
It says a lot that Gaines and The Post determined to gloss over that reality for his or her own pointed functions.
Fredrick Beondo
Richmond Hill
I agree with Simone Biles that sports activities ought to attempt to be as inclusive as attainable.
Yet female-only classes ought to be maintained.
And if all-female groups are competing towards mixed-gender groups, there ought to at all times be an award for the highest all-girl group, even when that group will not be the general winner.
This strategy would enable everybody to compete whereas sustaining the integrity of all-girls groups.
Bruce Couchman
Ottawa, Canada
For these of you on Biles’ facet, who suppose that transgender athletes competing in all-women’s sports activities is honest, I’ve one query I’d like answered: How are trans boys doing competing towards organic boys?
Tom Vespo
Bethpage
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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 be taught the which means of the phrase “kidnapped,” Greta.
Innocent Israelis had been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, rapists and murderers — and lots of of them stay hostages in horrific, inhumane situations.
Yet she has by no means uttered a single phrase about them.
Her voice could have carried weight as a climate activist, however as for creating awareness of what is going on in Gaza, she is aware of nothing.
Betty Schwartz
Livingston, NJ
My advice to Greta Thunberg is to watch the Oct. 7 video.
If you understand each side of the story, not less than people can’t call you ignorant.
Rob Spieler
Sharon Springs
Thunberg was drawing consideration to an situation that she was involved about, an exercise she has been doing for years and developed fairly a following for.
The Israeli army’s strategy of storming boats with weaponry towards unarmed civilians was a great method to carry Israel unhealthy publicity, given live-streaming is really easy now.
Dennis Fitzgerald
Melbourne, Australia
Greta is an ignorant coward, unable to look the horror of terrorism within the face.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
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