{"id":323159,"date":"2025-11-26T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323159"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:58:46","slug":"strongman-games-strip-booker-of-womens-title-after-sex-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323159","title":{"rendered":"Strongman Games Strip Booker of Women&#8217;s Title After Sex Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jammie Booker initially won the Women&#8217;s Open at the 2025 Official Strongman Games in Arlington, Texas, by one point over Thompson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organisers disqualified Booker upon learning she was recorded male at birth and had not disclosed it, awarding the title to 43-year-old Thompson from England. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials stressed competitors must enter their birth-sex category for fairness, restoring places for other women and drawing praise from figures like Jennifer Sey. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"719\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-719x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-323163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-719x1024.png 719w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-768x1093.png 768w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1-1079x1536.png 1079w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.png 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Thompson voiced relief, urging focus back on honest competition amid strength sports&#8217; eligibility questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisers disqualified Booker upon learning she was recorded male at birth and had not disclosed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":323160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[18871,18872,18873,11],"class_list":["post-323159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-jammie-booker","tag-strongman-games","tag-texas","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323164,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323159\/revisions\/323164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}