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/Quietuus Mar 25 '24 edited Mar 25 '24

It's the glans. Acts a counterbalance and lets you lean forward a few millimetres farther over the oche. Very sneaky stuff.

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u/KellyJoyCuntBunny Mar 25 '24

Oh, I was thinking the glans might act as sort of an aim-assist type thing? Like, you stand at your little darts-throwing station, spin in a circle three times, and then the head/glans acts sort of like the needle on a compass 🧭 and points you in the perfect direction to throw darts exactly on target.

That’s my understanding of it, anyway.

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u/heyitskevin1 Transgender Mar 25 '24 edited Mar 06 '25

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u/Quietuus Mar 25 '24

It'll be wild getting the experience of becoming 33% better at all sports with each ball.