Surprised and proud of the 7 or so commenters here so far who have agreed with the olympians speaking against this sort of thing. 

I was really expecting to pop in here and see people calling the lifter brave, and entitled to the records. 

Trans athletes need their own events.  How does anyone with a brain not understand the difference in genetics and the advantages had because of them. You can take all the hormone replacement, surgeries, and have every other transitioning tool you want, but it's never going to change skeletal structures, bone density and the ligature necessary to move them. Due to that, men are inherently born better equipped for physical exertion than women. Many, many (not educated fully enough on the subject to say "all" but for all I know, it could be ALL ) of those things do not change when transitioning to a female gender. 

That isn't archaic thinking, that isn't closed-mindedness. That's just science. It's fact proven and provable over and over without fail to refute it, or to change the truth of it. 

It's a huge slap in the face for the women who have devoted their life and trained hard in it to compete in their respective sports to have arrogant Trans egotists come into them and start smashing records on them. 

I won't go into any of the sciences, studies, and truths that have been made about the transgendered, either. That's just asking for it. Can't go around telling the ugly truth on Reddit. But, go ahead and look into it if you aren't quite sure of what to make of all the recent hubbub about transitioning, and the people who "need" to do it. 

Surprised the people in this thread have even said what they have thusly.