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A transgender athlete has been stripped of her world strongwoman title after allegedly failing to tell competition organisers that she was a “biological male”.

Jammie Booker, an American competitor, was crowned the world’s strongest woman at the Official Strongman Games in Texas, beating British lifter and former champion Andrea Thompson by a single point on Sunday.

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Grikath
Grikath
9 minutes ago

Republicans said that it** would restore fairness to sports but LGBT advocacy and human rights organisations described the move as discriminatory.

** A ban on trans athletes competing in female categories at highschool/college level

Darn tootin’ it’s “discriminatory”. That’s the whole bloody point..
It acknowledges there’s a difference between males and females in competitive sports, due to differences in development.
You deliberately separate the two, because of those bloody obvious differences in performance in near every metric.

It’s funny how the balance in what the screaming harpies want is almost exclusively “former males” competing amongst females.
The other way around…. Anyone actually have examples of that, outside of exhibition matches? I’m coming up blank..

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