"It’s one thing to disagree. It's another to use your platform to bully and demean," Skinner said in a public statement

Retired Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner has addressed her former teammate Simone Biles’ ongoing tension with Riley Gaines amid their public back-and-forth over the inclusion of transgender athletes in sports.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles has received a lot of backlash over the past week due to her feud with former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines. Biles, an 11-time Olympic medalist, had an issue with Gaines calling out an alleged transgender athlete on a Minnesota high school softball team.