Posted on 11/25/2025 11:38:55 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
“There is a time when you have to take a stand for women’s sports.”
The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas, erupted into controversy after American competitor Jammie Booker — who won the Official Strongman Games World Championship over the weekend — was stripped of the title on Tuesday after organizers said Booker failed to disclose that he is a man.
Booker was disqualified for violating the rules that mandate contestants compete in the division matching the sex they were born as.
“It appears that an athlete who is biologically male and who now identifies as female competed in the Women’s Open category,” organizers explained. “Strongman officials were unaware of this fact ahead of the competition and we have been urgently investigating since being informed.”
“Had we been aware, or had this been declared at any point before or during the competition, this athlete would not have been permitted to compete in the Women’s Open category.”
Booker claimed gold while British powerhouse Andrea Thompson, a former champion and one of the most respected figures in the sport, stepped off the podium muttering “this is bullsh*t,” according to multiple witnesses.
Within hours, her coach, former strongman Laurence Shahlaei, declared Thompson the real 2025 champion, praising her dominance in the deadlift, log press, and circus dumbbell. “Sport is sport,” he wrote. “Women’s classes exist for a reason.”
Three-time World’s Strongest Woman Rebecca Roberts ignited the backlash further, saying that no athletes or organizers knew about Booker’s background. A resurfaced 2017 YouTube video appearing to show Booker describing herself as a “21-year-old trans woman” fueled those concerns.
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> “Women’s classes exist for a reason.” <
Bingo.
I hope it helps to follow with eye wash:
Well, for what it’s worth, I thought she was pretty hot....
Thank you. I was screaming...my eyes, my eyes, until I scrolled down.
Was it the penis siting in the locker room that gave it away?
thanks, not all super heroes wear capes
did they find out before or after the stripping
I have been watching Anatoli strong guy videos on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uD3-TTjjwCw?
for a short video see above. He can lift more than that fake woman one handed.
We used to laugh at East German women who were converts from manhood.
Which one? The first one or the second one?
Good for her. You can't tell me that they did not know before now, that other guy was a man.
Hoping he was banned from any competition in anything. Maybe if this kind of ruling was mandatory it would discourage other “would be competitors”.
Come on, are you serious? They're likely both single, it doesn't matter to me.
You do understand that there’s a difference between parody and mental illness, right?
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