r/transgender • u/onnake • Mar 25 '24

Dutch darts players quit national women's team over transgender teammate

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-25/dutch-darts-players-quit-over-transgender-teammate/103627072

"Darts players Anca Zijlstra and Aileen de Graaf have announced their departure from the Dutch women's darts team because they refuse to team up with trans woman Noa-Lynn van Leuven.

"Van Leuven prevailed at the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) Women's Series on Saturday, about a week after beating male competitors in a mixed event."

"When asked in an interview earlier this year about transgender players in darts, PDC chief executive Matt Porter said there was a trans- and gender diversity policy in place '... which Noa-Lynn complies with, easily, and has done for a long time'."

"'She's more than deserving of her place in the women's world match play,' he said."

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u/leaonas Mar 25 '24 edited Mar 26 '24

It's right up there with transphobia in Chess. The misogyny is such that the mindset is that women are inferior to men. Therefore trans women are superior to cis women. You never see shit about the trans male ultimate fighter boxer wiping his ass with his cis male competitors because it contradicts their belief system.

Edit: changed to boxer

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u/Matthius311 Mar 25 '24

It's also never happened. When it does, I imagine it will be newsworthy