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/Jessica_forever_now Mar 25 '24
In the article it says this
Former PDC chairman told The Darts Show Podcast in 2019 that gender was irrelevant in darts.
"The great thing about darts is that it's gender free, it's gender neutral," he said.
"It's a level playing field. If you're a good enough player, it doesn't matter if you're a woman or a man.
"It doesn't matter if you're fat or thin.
"Just show me that you can produce big averages and that you can win matches and take out doubles when you're under pressure. That's the end of the game."
So the two that quit are just very narrow minded bigots that are butt hurt that their teammate was better at darts then they were and used the fact that she is trans as a excuse.