Jammie Booker is a transgender strongwoman whose short-lived World’s Strongest Woman title was revoked after organizers ruled she was ineligible under sex-at-birth rules. She briefly appeared as the 2025 World’s Strongest Woman champion before the Official Strongman Games disqualified her and awarded the win to British athlete Andrea Thompson.
Who Is Jammie Booker, World’s Strongest Woman Competitor?
Jammie Booker is a US-based strength athlete who competes in elite strongwoman contests. She promotes herself on social media as a pro strongwoman, sharing training footage, competition recaps and travel updates from major events.
Booker is a transgender woman who has previously described herself as trans in online content. That personal history, combined with her entry in the women’s open category, is what later triggered the rule review and disqualification after the 2025 World’s Strongest Woman contest.
Jammie Booker’s Strongwoman Career And Competition Results
Before this controversy, Booker was seen inside the strength community as a fast-rising name on the strongwoman scene. Her recent competition record includes:
- Winning a major regional strongwoman show that helped her earn pro status and qualify for bigger events.
- Finishing near the top of North America’s Strongest Woman, which put her on the radar as a podium threat in international contests.
- Qualifying for the 2025 Official Strongman Games World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas, in the Open Women’s division.
Those performances positioned Booker as a legitimate contender rather than a random outsider. Going into the World’s Strongest Woman event in Texas, she was viewed as someone who could push for the title against established names like Andrea Thompson.
How Jammie Booker Initially Won The World’s Strongest Woman Title
Man wins World’s Strongest Woman.
Woman who actually won says “this is bullshit, can we go?”
Yup. That about says it all. pic.twitter.com/mQmdus4Jhg
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) November 25, 2025
*Note: Inclusion of this tweet is for reporting purposes only.
The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman contest took place as part of the Official Strongman Games in Arlington, Texas. The Open Women’s category ran across multiple events, testing max strength, endurance and moving events over several days.
By the end of the final event, Booker topped the overall leaderboard. She finished one point ahead of Andrea Thompson, a former World’s Strongest Woman winner and one of the most decorated strongwomen in the sport.
Booker was announced as the winner, took part in the podium ceremony and was initially listed as the new World’s Strongest Woman. Video from the awards showed Thompson stepping off the podium early and appearing to voice her frustration as the result was read out.
Official Strongman Games Disqualify Jammie Booker Over Sex At Birth Rule
UPDATE: The Official Strongman Games has disqualified Booker for not disclosing birth sex. Biological males are required to participate in the male category.
In the statement Strongman does not confirm that Booker is male but says that it appears to be the case and that… https://t.co/cwHMow55Dz pic.twitter.com/t2vJPoGdzt
— Alexandria Hoff (@AlexandriaHoff) November 25, 2025
After the event, clips from the podium, old video of Booker describing herself as trans and screenshots from strongwoman result sites started circulating on social media. The central claim was that Booker was a transgender woman competing against women whose sex at birth was female.
The Official Strongman Games then issued a public statement explaining that their rules require athletes to compete in the division that matches their sex recorded at birth. The organizers said they did not know at the time of the contest that Booker had been born male, and that this information only came to them after the competition.
After reviewing the situation, they disqualified Booker from the Open Women’s category for breaching that rule. Her points and placing were removed from the final standings, and she was stripped of the World’s Strongest Woman title she had just been awarded.
Andrea Thompson Named World’s Strongest Woman After Decision
Once Booker was disqualified, the Official Strongman Games re-ordered the results. Andrea Thompson, who had finished one point behind Booker on the original leaderboard, moved up to first place and was officially recognized as the 2025 World’s Strongest Woman.
The rest of the Open Women’s field also moved up one position, with the athlete who had been third now listed as second, and so on. Thompson, already a former World’s Strongest Woman and Masters champion, added another major title to her record after the update.
The revised result aligned with what many strongwoman fans and some competitors had already been saying publicly after the podium footage started circulating: that the women who were born female should occupy the medal positions in the women’s division.
Backlash To Jammie Booker Competing In Women’s Strongwoman Division
Many congratulations to Jammie Booker, who has won the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas. The fact Jammie is a biological male with a massive physical advantage over the actual women competing shouldn’t detract from this well-earned victory! 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/b40TGGIZAU
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 25, 2025
The backlash to Booker’s initial win was rapid and loud on social platforms. Clips of the podium and screenshots of the final standings were shared widely on X, Instagram and other sites. High-profile accounts amplified the story by posting the video of Thompson stepping down and labelling Booker as a male athlete competing in a women’s contest.
Inside the strength community, current and former strongwoman athletes also responded. Some stressed that they support transgender people in everyday life but felt that women’s strength divisions should be reserved for competitors whose sex at birth is female. Others focused on the need for clear rules and for organizers to apply those rules consistently.
Booker, for her part, had celebrated the win at first, thanking the other “insanely strong women” in the field and talking about how hard the build-up to the event had been. After the disqualification, she went quiet in public. As of now, she has not posted a detailed response to losing the title or addressed the rule breach in a formal statement.
The end result is that Jammie Booker is no longer recognized as the winner of the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington. The official record lists Andrea Thompson as the 2025 World’s Strongest Woman, and Booker’s disqualification has become a flashpoint in the ongoing debate over how strength sports handle transgender athletes in sex-based categories.
