'You have to speak up': Female powerlifter calls for gender testing after man wins 'World's Strongest Woman'



Powerlifter and strongman competitor Morgan Irons says gender testing and identification checks are necessary to keep women's sports for women only.

Irons' remarks came after a male athlete, Jammie Booker, recently defeated nine female competitors to win the coveted title of "World's Strongest Woman" at the 2025 Official Strongman Games.

'He basically said he really hoped that I would be at this next competition ...'

In an exclusive interview with Fearless, Irons said that not only does Booker have an obvious and unfair advantage, but he allegedly has been trash-talking female competitors in their own sport.

Irons said she had been messaging with Booker in a sort of mentor role, offering advice and generic chatter, before their communications soured.

"I generally just try to be a positive person, and that's what I got initially from Jammie in the beginning," Irons explained with a smile. She said Booker had left positive remarks on her videos, telling her she is amazing and offering congratulations.

"But then it quickly just turned really sour," Irons said, recalling that she started to realize something strange about Booker. "I realized that, 'OK, this isn't all adding up to me,' and I had already had questions myself."

When she decided to discuss this with people around her, Irons said she was advised not to say anything to avoid looking foolish or "like a bigot" if she was wrong.

Following up on her suspicions, Irons said she checked to see what Booker was doing from time to time in terms of competitions. It was then that she learned Booker had reportedly taken a hard turn and leaned into the idea of unabashedly beating women at their own game.

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"Jammie had some brazen words for me and some other athletes along the way," Irons revealed. She alleged that Booker was verbally letting it be known that he wanted to beat the other women — and beat them soundly.

"He basically said he really hoped that I would be at this next competition so that he could beat me and beat all the other top women in the sport, currently," Irons explained. "And I just find that odd. You know, you're less than a year in, and what do you want to do? You want to go after the women at the top?"

Fearless reached out to Booker to confirm whether or not he had made these or similar remarks or expressed any hostility toward his competitors. He did not respond.

Negative remarks did not just allegedly come from Booker. But as has become typical with women who don't wish to compete against men, Irons said she received a flurry of sarcastic comments on her social media videos like "work harder."

This would, of course, require Irons to somehow overcome biology itself.

The comments are "just ... it's a slap in the face," Irons said.

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While Booker was promptly stripped of his title of strongest woman, Irons urged that this should be the last time this sort of situation should be allowed to happen, advocating medical testing.

The athlete firmly rejected the idea that there would be "genital checks" to confirm sex, a method Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) once said would result from barring men from women's sports. Instead, Irons championed cheek swabs for a DNA test and having to provide identification.

While she recognized that many states allow for one's gender to be legally changed, Irons laughed that it is still shocking that every time she enters a competition, there is no ID check.

Irons relayed that it is essential to protect women's sports, not just for now but for athletes in the future.

"You have to speak up. You just have to. Not even just for yourself, but for the next generation of women," she said. "We've sat back and we've let this happen for so long, and that's why we're in the situation that we're in. ... It is women's fault in a way that we've let it get to this point."

Remarking on the entirety of the situation, former national champion gymnast Jennifer Sey has cemented herself in the position that there can be zero tolerance for the idea that men can compete in women's sports.

She stated to Fearless that the blame should be put on the men who want to crush women in their own athletics.

"The gall to enter a competition for women to be the strongest woman in the world as a dude. Like, the arrogance and the dismissiveness of actual women required to do that — it's just disgusting. It's gross," she added.

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Radical gender ideology is secretly radicalizing children — in their own homes



Modern gender activists have convinced much of the world — and themselves — that transgenders are suffering from gender dysphoria and truly believe they were born in the wrong body.

However, there’s a dark underbelly to transgenderism that BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey believes is more likely the reason for the surge of gender transitions among young men and women today.

And it’s readily available on your children’s devices.

“I no longer believe that most people today who say that they’re the opposite sex have true gender dysphoria. I believe that gender dysphoria exists as it is defined, or was defined, in the DSM5,” Stuckey says.


“Today it is, I believe, mostly due to pornography,” she explains. “It is due to a sexual fetish that they have developed over time, that there is now a very real algorithmic pipeline via Pornhub and other porn sites that push young men to seek more and more exciting dopamine hits.”

“So the pornography changes from something that is simple to something that might be more erotic, more violent, more subversive, and it gets into not only like different kinds of sexual deviancy in addition to just pornography, homosexuality, but then gender bending and gender fluidity,” she continues.

This presents a major issue as pornography has been widely normalized over the years as almost a rite of passage for young boys — but it can have devastating effects on their impressionable minds.

“I believe that is what is motivating the majority of transgenderism among men today,” she says, “And I just want you to know that this is not nuance, that this doesn’t deserve more of our empathy, that these people don’t deserve to be allowed into any women’s spaces at all.”

“I want you to stare at it in the eyes as sexual depravity and perversion,” she continues, adding, “That doesn’t have anything to do with gender. It has do with sex. And I’m not talking about biological sex. I’m talking about sexual fetish and pornography.”

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Trans professor flunks student for calling trans ideology ‘demonic’



Most parents assume that when they send their children to college in the South, they’ll be marked safe from transgender ideology rearing its head in their classrooms.

However, it appears that they’ve assumed wrong.

Now a student at the University of Oklahoma has filed a discrimination report against a transgender instructor who failed her for referencing the Bible in an essay response to an article about gender stereotypes.

The student, Samantha Fulnecky, disagreed with the premise of the article but made sure her response worked well within the prompt’s guidelines — using the Bible to argue against the notion that there are multiple genders.


“Apparently the trans instructor didn’t like that very much and gave her a 0 as her grade,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

In her essay, Fulnecky wrote, “I strongly disagree with the idea from the article that encouraging acceptance of diverse gender expressions could improve students’ confidence. Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic and severely harms American youth.”

“My prayer for the world and specifically for American society and youth is that they would not believe the lies being spread from Satan that make them believe they are better off as another gender than what God made them,” she continued.

“My first reaction is why are you asking the students to write an essay about this in the first place? It seems to me like there are far better things that you could be teaching them rather than having them waste their precious time explaining something like ‘boys have penises and girls have vaginas,’” Gonzales comments.

“But then again, we are dealing with a mentally ill professor,” she continues, noting that when the New York Times covered the story, it conveniently left the part about the professor being transgender out.

“I find that part fascinating,” Gonzales comments.

The professor, who calls himself “Mel Curth,” responds, “I am not deducting points because you have certain beliefs, but instead I am deducting points for you posting a reaction paper that does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive.”

“Additionally to call an entire group of people ‘demonic’ is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population,” he added.

“Seems to me like it's entirely about her beliefs,” Gonzales comments, adding, “and the fact that she stood up for her, of course, Christian worldview.”

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'Matrix' co-creator: 'Trans rage' drives my work



At 57 years old, writer Lilly Wachowski is still doing a lot of soul-searching.

Born Andrew, and one-half of the famous Wachowski Brothers, Wachowski and his older brother, Lana (60), born Laurence, are known for their iconic movie series "The Matrix."

Both claim to be transgender.

'As a trans person, the dark question that I had as a trans person was, "Who will ever love this?"'

Andy became Lilly in 2016, while Larry was four years ahead, becoming Lana in 2012. Since then, the duo have leaned into their new identities, going so far as to retroactively characterize "The Matrix" trilogy as a "trans metaphor" in 2020.

Freedom fried

During a recent interview on "So True with Caleb Hearon," Lilly Wachowski took another look back at his previous work and explained that he has a new perspective that helps him see how his work got him to where he is now, in relation to his gender status.

I look back on all of my previous work, and I see it because I'm looking at it from this higher place. It just creates this different perspective from this point of view up here, and I can see "Bound" — the first shot of the movie is a closet. And it's like, "Okay, it looks like we're going to be working on some stuff."

Noting that "The Matrix" was about "liberation and identity and, like, freedom," Wachowski then repeated a liberal trope about making art that can "will things into being that you need to see in the world," before further saying that his movies have also been about finding love, while also being subliminal instruments for transgender storytelling.

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"A lot of the things that me and Lana were also writing about was love — that we needed to create stories that gave us a grounding to see that love was possible," Wachowski tried to explain. "As a trans person ... the dark question that I had as a trans person was, 'Who will ever love this?' ... And it gave us this reminder that there was a future for us."

Mad for it

Wachowski also noted another powerful source of creativity his new identity has given him: "trans rage."

In 2017, he and a partner began working on a trans-themed screenplay — a process he described as "purging all this rage and horror out of the world and onto this page."

After a few years executive producing the Showtime series "Work in Progress" — a vehicle for comedian and self-described "masculine queer dyke" Abby McEnany — Wachowski returned to the script in 2021, finding "catharsis" in responding to a world he found had become "way s**ttier for trans people."

Wachowski channeled some of his rage into "creating caricature[d] buffoons of the right wing." He also used it to inspire a vision of "an idealized family, a network, a Weather Underground of trans people coming together and supporting each other and holding each other up, trying to create a story that is the best of us."

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Larry Wachowski, now Lana (L), and Andy Wachowski, now Lilly (R). Photo by Bob Riha Jr/WireImage

Flip-flop

Wachowski's new creative direction hasn't been great for the bottom line.

A fourth installment of the beloved Keanu Reeves saga, "The Matrix Resurrections," flopped when released in December 2021, making only about $38 million on a $190 million budget.

That's less than a third of the $139 million its predecessor, "The Matrix Revolutions," pulled in 2004 — and a far cry from 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded," which took in over $280 million.

The first "Matrix" made $171 million in 1999.

Male powerlifter disqualified after becoming 'World's Strongest Woman'



Fans and supporters of female athletes are outraged over the results of a world's strongest woman competition.

Multiple competitors are speaking out after a man allegedly took first place in the women's category at the event, with organizers saying they had no idea a man had competed against women.

'This is bulls**t.'

The 2025 Official Strongman Games took place in Arlington, Texas, over the weekend, and saw alleged transgender athlete Jammie Booker, a biological male, defeat nine female competitors. As reported by Fitness Volt, Booker took home the narrow victory after runner-up Andrea Thompson finished seventh in the final event, edging her out by just a point.

The results had Booker winning with 47 points, while Thompson had 46, and Allira-Joy Cowley came in third place with 39 points.

Viewers immediately began circulating footage from the winner's podium in which Thompson appeared to say, "This is bulls**t," before walking off the platform.

On her Instagram page, Thompson shared multiple posts that declared her the true winner of the event, with commenters seemingly in unanimous agreement.

In a video posted to Instagram, Booker thanked everyone who donated to his cause and even "checked in" regarding his mental health.

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"There were a lot of, like, dark days getting here mentally and emotionally," the lifter said.

Booker called the other competitors "insanely badass women" and said it was "an honor" to share the stage with them. He added that he did not think he was going to win.

Booker's page lists "she/her" pronouns and the accolades of "pro strongwoman," "world's strongest woman 2025," and "North America's strongest woman." It also provides a link to a GoFundMe page titled "Help Jammie Become 'World's Strongest Woman.'"

Booker raised over $1,500 for registration, flight, and hotel costs, which the fundraiser said would total around $900.

On Tuesday, the strongman organization posted a statement to its social media, saying it was unaware that an athlete "who is biologically male and who now identifies as female" competed in the Women's Open category.

The organization said that had it been aware, the athlete would not have been permitted to compete in that category.

"We are clear — competitors can only compete in the category for the biological sex recorded at birth," the organization wrote.

Without declaring a new winner, the company said it had "disqualified the athlete in question" and that "athlete points and places will be altered accordingly."

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Female powerlifter Morgan Irons released a video criticizing Booker for taking opportunities away from women.

"There has been an individual, Jammie Booker, who has been competing as a biological male within the women's division of strongman," Irons said.

"This individual competed in the women's division as a biological man, plain and simple. As a woman, this is very, very frustrating because their participation in the women's division has taken away prize money, podium finishes, national bids, and a pro card from biological women," she continued.

At the same time, women's sports activist and former national gymnastics champion Jennifer Sey told Fearless that women are still "being erased from their own sex-class, their own sports categories, and their own legal protections."

She said that Booker winning the title "Strongest Woman in the World" was a clear indication that there is still work to be done.

Critics pointed to a YouTube video seemingly posted by Booker in 2017, which described him as a "21-year-old" transgender person with a "history of abuse, struggling to stay true to herself while under the rule of her religious parents."

Booker did not respond to a request for comment.

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Male players take over women's hockey in Minnesota — one team has 4 men



The Women's Hockey Association of Minnesota appears to be for women in name only.

The league, which touts itself as the largest women's hockey league in the world, follows USA Hockey guidelines, which allow for the participation of men.

'Pretending it's OK for men to play in a women's league insults women's sports.'

USA Hockey allows athletes to "participate on a team that is consistent with their gender identity" in order to allegedly "help maintain a fair and safe environment."

The policy, issued in 2021, adds that "gender identity" refers to one's "internal psychological identification as a male or female, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum."

Adhering to these guidelines, the WHAM has allowed at least seven different males to play among its teams, including four on a single squad.

According to Reduxx, a team in the league's A-division called the Robins had four active male players in 2024. Kayley (Kody) Misialek, Rhea (Brady) Turner, Diana (Chris) Sulmone, and Paige (Dylan) Rainer were all listed on the team's official roster. The team finished in second place in their division last season.

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🧵With the recent revelations about men in the Women's Hockey Association of Minnesota (WHAM) I think it's past time I do a few threads on men playing in "women's" ice hockey.

WHAM is certainly not the only league putting female skaters at increased risk of injury and… pic.twitter.com/PiGfj6PfnA
— HeCheated.org (@hecheateddotorg) October 28, 2025

Reduxx further reported on the playing history of each of the four players, alleging that last year marked Turner's first season competing as a female; at six feet tall, he has also played on a transgender hockey team.

Misialek has reportedly been playing women's hockey since 2022, as has Sulmone.

Rainer allegedly played for a boys' high school team before transitioning to co-ed teams. He also reportedly switched to the women's league for the 2024-2025 season.

In cooperation with HeCheated.Org, the report named three more men playing in the women's hockey league under girls' names. This included one male who was alleged to run a venue that is labeled a "dyke and queer" bar.

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🚨NEW: Another player for the Women’s Hockey Association of Minnesota (WHAM) publicly calls it quits in heartbreaking goodbye letter to hockey.

Despite a petition and player complaints, WHAM has refused to change its trans policy allowing men to participate.

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— Liz Collin (@lizcollin) October 26, 2025

Two women have spoken out against WHAM's inclusion of male players. Kelley Grotting said in February that playing against the men "feels unsafe" and is "not fun."

"I am not a transphobe. To each his or her own, but pretending it's OK for men to play in a women's league insults women's sports and creates safety issues," she added, per Alpha News.

In October, a former college women's hockey player said she was leaving hockey forever because men are allowed in the league in which she has played for 20 years.

"I am left to believe they do not care about my safety or the sanctity of the sport," she explained. "I can no longer participate in a league that does not care about me."

In response to criticisms about the league, a petition was filed in support of men in women's athletics, started by a sports bar that exclusively shows women's sports on its screens.

The petition said that the "safe and inclusive nature" of the league was being challenged, and therefore the community must "rally behind each individual's right to sport, regardless of gender identity."

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