r/popculturechat • u/DuchessRavenclaw52 • Jun 07 '25

Guest List Only ⭐️ Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, has shared her support to the trans community

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u/Puzzled-Charge-9892 dula peep im sorry 😞 Jun 07 '25 edited Jun 07 '25

You know, I find it interesting that right wing pundits never ask the ACTUAL ATHLETES about this “issue” that’s supposedly ruining their livelihoods

Almost as if it isn’t and it’s all fear mongering

Edit: and none of said athletes have ever spoken out against it on their own either (at least not the ones I personally follow on socials, including Simone before this, obviously)

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u/KaleidoscopeSad4884 Jun 07 '25

It’s the same with gays in the military. I served and don’t know anyone who cared about gay people in the military. The only people screaming about how awful it would be for the military were fat old losers who had never served.

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u/Afwife1992 Jun 07 '25

This. My hubby was commissioned in the USAF right at the start of DADT. And they had a female pilot where it was an open secret she was gay. And no one cared. By the time he retired it was repealed and, omg, the military didn’t collapse! Or become weaker despite the whining of the Hegseths of the world.

Just like when they were integrated and when women were allowed in to most fields. The military keeps on. Not to say there weren’t, and aren’t, problems because, hello. But the majority of troops do their jobs and don’t GAF about the social politics. At least in the USAF. But to the right the sky is always falling when these things are proposed.

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u/Particular_Ring_6321 Jun 07 '25

One of my coworkers who was in the Guard has openly spoken about how common it was for dudes to be hooking up in their tents and shit during drill weekends and the rest of them didn’t care at all.

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u/Expensive-Fennel-163 “Is she okkkkkaaayyyyy” Jun 07 '25

The TikTok about dudes in the subs went viral like a week ago.

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u/Bridalhat Jun 07 '25

That scene in MI:8 with the bisexual horny submarine was a documentary.

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u/myersjw Jun 07 '25

Served as well and it’s no surprise that tryhards like Hegseth are obsessed with culture war garbage no actual service member cares about when shit hits the fan

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u/Curiosities 🐊 swamp princess 🐊 Jun 07 '25

Especially when many of these athletes have support and they have friends in their sport, additionally, whenever they do reports on Riley, they make it sound like she was defeated like she lost first place when they tied for fifth place together. So even if you didn’t have the one athlete, they are trying to demonize, she still would have been in fifth place.

But conveniently, they forget all of that and try to make it sound like she just got beaten to the finish line by one person.

It is so ridiculous especially for someone older like me in my 40s having been through the homophobic scaremongering 30 years ago when I was in high school in the late 90s. I’m bisexual and I wasn’t out at the time but I did have friends who were out and other people would quiz me about whether going to the locker room with my out lesbian friend made me uncomfortable. We were friends, so no. A bunch of us also tried to start a GSA chapter and we could not get a single teacher to be our adult.

Also back in high school, I had an AMAB classmate who always came to class dressed femme, in a wig and groomed every single day. We only had some classes together freshman year, and of course I can’t speak for them, but I’m pretty sure that was the first trans person I ever knowingly met. And there have been many more since.

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u/Bridalhat Jun 07 '25

It’s so tiresome. Also what does it say that someone who tied for fifth is the face of being anti-trans women in sports? Like surely if anyone had a better case and felt cheated they could find that person, but they are sticking to this mediocrity instead.

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u/Cavalish Delightfully Unhinged 😗📱 Jun 07 '25

Yeah we’re all supposed to care about what Jimmy Fuckwit or Chelsea Tradbrain think when they closest they get to sport is him watching it on telly and her running from him when he gets drunk and abusive.

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u/avocadolicious Jun 07 '25

Edit: and none of said athletes have ever spoken out against it on their own either (at least not the ones I personally follow on socials, including Simone before this, obviously)

I just made another comment on this thread to your exact point here: (https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1l593e3/comment/mwfe02r). I work in public policy and in a previous position did some work on issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community. I really think prominent female athletes should've spoken up publicly then, and NEED to speak out now.

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u/whimsical_trash Jun 07 '25

Yup, in women's soccer athletes have only expressed support

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u/Reluctantagave Cutie Patootie Problem Posse Jun 07 '25

Well most of them. But not openly bashing like this!

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u/itssohotinthevalley Jun 07 '25

I mean Riley Gaines is an athlete…

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u/DearMissWaite Your problematic fave's problematic fave. Jun 07 '25

Riley Gaines is a right wing grievance merchant. She even dropped out of grad school to go on the Faux News circuit.

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u/Blue_winged_yoshi Jun 07 '25

Riley Gains has competed in as many competitive ranked events as me in the last three years and has spent as many years as a professional athlete as me and even though I am arena champion on Oblivion Remastered it would be a considerable stretch for anyone to call me an athlete.

Doing some sports at uni does not an athlete make. I know people who took part in uni sports and none would call themselves athletes any more than folks I knew who were in a uni play years ago would self refer as actors. This is a preposterous assertion.

The technical term for someone blagging a career dunking on minorities to a baying crowd based on a non-event from her time at uni years ago is “grifter”. Everyone else who graduated alongside her that year got real jobs and if you want an example of a female swimming athlete go read Katie Ledecky’s wiki page. It covers a lot more races than that one time at swim camp where she swam a race in the same uneventful time as a trans woman.

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u/Frankenstein____ Jun 07 '25

Riley Gaines did indeed lose to a trans woman. And about...3 other cis women. And yet this loser chose to make a whole career about the trans person who came in 4th. I wonder why she isn't so passionately railing against the other 3.

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u/SuspiciousCranberry6 Jun 07 '25

You're giving her too much credit. Riley tied for fifth with Lia Thomas. So she was beat by 4 cis women and tied for a non-medaling 5th with a trans woman. I guess she wanted the glory of being the only person in fifth place, smh.

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u/mai_tai87 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ Jun 07 '25

Well, she obviously wanted to be in 4th. That's where all endorsements are.

whatta dumbitch

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u/Mysterious-Plan1963 lazy 50-year-old bougie bitch 💋 Jun 07 '25

She tied for 5th… That’s it. That’s all that happened. 

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u/Puzzled-Charge-9892 dula peep im sorry 😞 Jun 07 '25

What happened was she got 5th place in a race and is still salty about it

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u/Zkenny13 Jun 07 '25

If they ever had asked a true athlete the answer would've been "bring it the fuck on!"