{"id":2514859,"date":"2025-11-26T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-breaking-tx-ag-ken-paxton-taking-action-after-male-awarded-female-weight-lifting-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:41:53","slug":"late-breaking-tx-ag-ken-paxton-taking-action-after-male-awarded-female-weight-lifting-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-breaking-tx-ag-ken-paxton-taking-action-after-male-awarded-female-weight-lifting-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Breaking: TX AG Ken Paxton Taking Action After Male Awarded Female Weight Lifting Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flate-breaking-tx-ag-ken-paxton-taking-action-after-male-awarded-female-weight-lifting-championship%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2514859&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>the article reports on a controversy surrounding the 2025 World&#8217;s Strongest Woman competition held in Arlington, Texas, where Jammie booker, a transgender athlete identified as male at birth, initially won first place. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an inquiry into the event, emphasizing the need to protect women&#8217;s sports.Organizers subsequently disqualified Booker and awarded the title to runner-up Andrea Thompson after confirming Booker&#8217;s biological sex. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >incident sparked strong statements<\/a> from advocates like Kim Jones of the Independent council on Women&#8217;s Sports, who called for strict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sports-court-rejects-lia-thomas-case-delivers-massive-win-for-womens-sports\/\" title=\"Court Dismisses Lia Thomas Case, Major Victory for Women&#039;s Sports\">sex-based eligibility<\/a> rules to ensure fairness for female athletes. The article also references similar controversies in women&#8217;s sports, urging cultural resistance against allowing transgender women to compete in female categories across sports and other gender-segregated spaces.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 2025 World&rsquo;s Strongest Woman is a man, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has something to say about that.<\/p>\n<p>After Jammie Booker &mdash; a &ldquo;trans&rdquo; athlete &mdash; won first place at the World&rsquo;s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas last weekend, Paxton&rsquo;s office announced an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-trump-jr-blast-ny-ag-letitia-james-for-political-persecution-this-is-banana-republic-stuff\/\" title=\"Trump, Trump Jr. Blast NY AG Letitia James For \u2018Political Persecution\u2019: \u2018This Is Banana Republic Stuff\u2019\">attorney general made<\/a> the news public via his account on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My latest investigation: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SEzeSsmlWV\">https:\/\/t.co\/SEzeSsmlWV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KenPaxtonTX\/status\/1993456618160505143?\">November 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); 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This is why sex-based eligibility and sex-screening are essential.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Without them, situations like this will continue to blindside women and undermine every competition&hellip; Women have fought too hard, for too long, to have their sports taken from them in plain sight. This cannot continue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Footage of Booker on the podium with Thompson to his right shows him celebrating after the event.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson, over cheering, can faintly be heard saying, &ldquo;this is b******t.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#128563; &#127947; Transgender athlete Jammie Booker initially won the Women&rsquo;s Open at the 2025 Official Strongman Games in Arlington, TX, edging Andrea Thompson by 1 point.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson refused the podium. Hours later, organizers revoked Booker&rsquo;s title upon confirming male birth sex and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oLeej17NPo\">pic.twitter.com\/oLeej17NPo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; VIRTUE.NEWS (@virtuemediacorp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virtuemediacorp\/status\/1993451273933173239?\">November 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Official Strongman claims it was not aware that Booker was a biological male before the event.<\/p>\n<p>Per Fox, the organization stated Tuesday, &ldquo;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 Woman&rsquo;s Open category.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are clear &ndash; competitors can only compete in the category for the biological sex recorded at birth.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>For this massive oversight, they will now be dealing with an investigation that will surely create more stringent vetting procedures, so mentally ill men do not compete against women.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson and the other athletes did have a choice to stop this madness before it began: don&rsquo;t compete.<\/p>\n<p>Do not countenance this behavior for even a second. By participating, despite any misgivings, you tell the radical left this can continue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-female-athlete-bows-front-trans-opponent-catching-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In April<\/a> at the Disc Golf Pro Tour&rsquo;s Music City Open in Nashville, Tennessee, competitor Abigail Thompson walked off the course rather than compete against Natalie Ryan, a biological male, that day. For context, in 2022, Ryan had defeated the best female disc golfer in the world, Kristin Tattar.<\/p>\n<p>Women must put their foot down and say &ldquo;enough.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>We as a culture must not only say &ldquo;enough&rdquo; in sports but also say it in bathrooms, locker rooms, around children and wherever else these sick individuals try to go.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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