USA Today columnist Nancy Armour demonstrated just how desperately she needs improvement in her critical thinking skills.
On Friday evening, she published a column about an online feud between Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and OutKick’s Riley Gaines, the latter of whom has been a strong advocate for keeping men out of women’s sports for the past three years. The feud began when Gaines said that a Minnesota high school softball team had an unfair advantage in winning a state title because a boy was the team’s best starting pitcher.
Of course, most people would heartily agree with this statement, but Biles chose to attack Gaines for her (correct) beliefs. She proceeded to call her a bully and body-shame her, while at the same time contradicting the original point she was trying to make.
@Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. 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… https://t.co/pjpzuZ0AlO
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 6, 2025
"Bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male," she wrote in a follow-up tweet.
I could wax poetic at the depths of the stupidity of these posts. But let’s get back to Armour, because somehow her defense of Biles was even more ridiculous.
Armour stated that “There is no scientific evidence that transgender women athletes have a physical advantage over cisgender women athletes.” She, and therefore Biles, would certainly be right - if there were no evidence of men outdoing women in competition in swimming, softball, track and field, boxing, volleyball, basketball, and even disc golf.
She did, however, cite one piece of evidence to support her claim. That source was - herself.
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To support that claim she made above, she referenced an opinion piece she wrote last year criticizing the LPGA and U.S. Golf Association for banning transgender athletes form the division. So her “proof” that males don’t beat women in sports was her opinion from 2024 that they don’t, and that opinion was informed by a couple of other biased sources that are trying to suppress the truth.
Yeah, that elite-level stupidity right there.
Armour also noted that there are “nine players on a softball team” (a big-brained observation, I know), implying that because one is transgender means that there isn’t an unfair advantage. But that boy - who refers to himself as “Marrissa Rothenberger” - is a pitcher, and he went 12-1 with a 0.74 ERA and 105 strikeouts while pitching two shutouts in the final two games of the postseason.
For reference, he finished with 33 more strikeouts, three more wins, and an ERA that’s better by half a run than the next best pitcher.
I think that counts as an unfair advantage.
To end it all, Armour lauded Biles for her words and said all of us should be like her:
Most of us could never do what Biles does as a gymnast. But we can do what she does as a human: Be kind. Defend the most marginalized…
In a world of Riley Gaineses, be a Simone Biles.
Uh, no thanks. I’ll stick on the side that says men should not be in women’s sports and not associate myself with the likes of Armour and Biles in this broader debate.
In a world of deceit, be someone who stands for truth.
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