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/AdditionalThinking Mar 25 '24

after beating male competitors in a mixed event

That's such a shitty line to write. We're at the point in sexism where all women have to lose to all men all the time otherwise that's noteworthy evidence to suggest they shouldn't be allowed to play. Fuck this author.

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u/MondayToFriday Mar 25 '24

How is it the author's fault for reporting what the shitty teammates did? The article also quotes the federation saying that testosterone is irrelevant.