US EditionTrans Athlete Stripped of 'World's Strongest Woman' Title
Jammie Booker was disqualified for violating rules requiring athletes to compete in their birth sex category, leading to Andrea Thompson's promotion to champion, officials said.
- On Nov. 23, Jammie Booker was crowned World's Strongest Woman at the Official Strongman Games World Championships 2025 in Arlington, Texas, but organisers later stripped her of the title and removed the win from results.
- Under the event's rules, Official Strongman said Booker, biologically male, violated competition rules requiring athletes to compete by sex recorded at birth, and owner Colton Cross said Booker misrepresented key information.
- A years-old YouTube video attributed to Booker identified the narrator as a trans woman, while Strongman Archives showed Booker competed in just two women's events and commentators noted her size at about 6ft 5in and 400lbs.
- Officials adjusted placings by promoting Allira-Joy Cowley to second, Iron Ape removed Booker from its roster, and organisers said they could not contact Booker as the Texas attorney general investigates.
- Amid wider debate, Andrea Thompson wrote the momentous occasion was overshadowed by scandal and dishonesty, while figures warned it harms trust in women's sport amid Republican Party actions on transgender athletes.
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Jammie Booker wins the title as "the strongest woman in the world" – but her title is denied because she had not stated that she was biologically still a man at birth.
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The American trans athlete Jammie Booker has been stripped of the title of 'The Strongest Woman in the World' by coming to light that she is a 'biological man', something she hid in the competition, as announced by the tournament organizers."We wanted to provide an update on what is happening after the Official World Championship of Strongman Games 2025 that took place in Arlington, Texas, over the weekend. It seems that an athlete who is biolog…
The organization of the World’s Strongest Women championship stripped Jammie Booker, winner of the 2025 edition, after he circulated explicit content that links her to a supposed transgender identity. The organizing committee claimed that the athlete did not meet the requirement to compete according to the biological sex registered at birth.The decision came without Booker being publicly defended or attending to the contact attempts of the organ…
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