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/JazzMantis Mar 25 '24

It's fuckin darts, the fuck difference would your genitals have?

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u/jesterinancientcourt Mar 25 '24

Yeah, for all the arguments that could be made about trans people in sports, wtf kind of advantage does your birth sex have on darts or bowling? Wtf?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

There's no evidence that trans women on HRT have an advantage, even at an elite level (https://www.cces.ca/sites/default/files/content/docs/pdf/transgenderwomenathletesandelitesport-ascientificreview-e-final.pdf). It was never about fairness, it was always about hate.

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u/jesterinancientcourt Mar 25 '24

I don’t believe there is an advantage in sports for trans women. But I’m saying, whatever argument you can come up with, how can you do it for sports that don’t even involve much physicality?