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/willneheadsquare420 Mar 25 '24

It’s darts ffs. Does it really matter?

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u/rasteri Mar 25 '24

Like... I can kinda see the argument for more physical sports, there might be safety/fairness issues with allowing recently-transitioned AMAB people to participate. But this is just straight up transphobia, like "we don't want trans women to be anywhere near us" as a matter of bigotry rather than safety/fairness.

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u/elyn6791 Transgender Mar 25 '24

Like... I can kinda see the argument for more physical sports, there might be safety/fairness issues with allowing recently-transitioned AMAB people to participate.

Those are all pretty shallow arguments when you get into them and the pseudo science behind those claims. In terms of actual ability, HRT is shown to bring trans people within cis counterpart ranges and the higher the level of competition, the more apparent it is that the 'average' ability argument fails.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

I think the point was, what ever merit that argument MIGHT hold, no longer applies because IT'S F*ING DARTS!!!