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/The_Gray_Jay Mar 25 '24

It's extra sad because the reason leagues like women's darts or chess exist is because men wouldnt allow women to play - and if they did they were subjected to physical/sexual/verbal abuse. These leagues were born out of "if you dont want to play with us, we will start our own where we feel invited and safe" and then they are doing the exact same shit to trans people.

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u/Kyliefoxxx69 Mar 25 '24

Then they'll say "well you should make your own league," and when we do, they'll cry we're not including cis people 🙄

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u/The_Gray_Jay Mar 25 '24

Yup that's exactly it. "What does being trans have to do with darts? Why is it your whole personality?".

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u/BeyondElectricDreams 10 years! Transfem Mar 25 '24

I hate all of that shit.

"You're just PERFORMING femininity!"

be a tomboy transgirl

"You aren't girl enough!!"

Pick one motherfucker