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Riley Gaines and MyKayla Skinner send message to Simone Biles on women's sports debate after SCOTUS ruling

After the Supreme Court dealt a win for the "Save Women's Sports" movement, Riley Gaines and MyKayla Skinner sent a message to Simone Biles after Biles attacked Gaines over the issue on social media last year.

Just over a year ago, Simone Biles came at Riley Gaines.

In now-infamous X posts, Biles called out Gaines for speaking up about a transgender pitcher who won a Minnesota girls' softball championship, and mocked Gaines' body saying "bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male." It ignited the biggest pop culture flashpoint in the "Save Women's Sports" movement.

Now just over a year later, Gaines has a close ally in Biles' former US Olympic gymnastics team teammate, MyKayla Skinner. Gaines and Skinner celebrated the Supreme Court's decision to uphold state laws that protect women's sports on Tuesday, and sent a message to Biles one year after the infamous social media feud.

SUPREME COURT MAKES RULING ON TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS

Mykayla Skinner and Simone Biles of Team United States pose for a photo during Women's Podium Training ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on July 22, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images)

"Just being able to try to find my voice and how I could use my voice after Simone had come out against Riley, it had really affected me," Skinner said. "I have a little daughter, and we are hoping to put her in sports soon, and I just really want her to have everything that I got to have, all the opportunities."

Skinner, who won an Olympic silver medal in vault at the Tokyo Games, said her own athletic career shaped her view of the issue.

"I’ve broken records, I’ve been an Olympian, I was a college athlete, and I want her to have the

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