This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

In recent years, we've seen drama play out on the podium at athletic competitions involving biological men competing as women.

In most cases, it's common knowledge when a man competes as a "transgender woman," and he often does well competing against real women.

But the man who won a women's powerlifting championship last weekend apparently fooled the very organization sponsoring the competition – and that group has now disqualified him after the fact.

According to a report at the Blaze, multiple competitors have spoken out about the controversy, with the runner-up, an actual woman, reportedly saying as she took the podium after the competition, "This is bulls**t."

Here is video of the incident:

The 2025 Official Strongman Games took place in Arlington, Texas, and saw lifter 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.

On Tuesday, the strongman organization posted a statement to Instagram, the Blaze reported. The group says 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.

The company said it had "disqualified the athlete in question" and that "athlete points and places will be altered accordingly" –- which means Thompson will be declared "The World's Strongest Woman."

The statement concluded: "The Official Strongman World Championships is an event which is rightly one of the pinnacles of the strength world. We are disappointed on behalf of all those who fairly and legitimately took part that the attention has been taken away from their efforts which deserve celebration, no matter how they performed or where they finished. We stand with them and stand with fairness."

Critics of Booker have pointed to a YouTube video seemingly posted in 2017, in which he described himself 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."