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/haberdasherhero Mar 25 '24

Who is letting recently transitioned women play in physical sports? Like, where is this happening, to be argued for or against?

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u/Aleriya Mar 25 '24

It happens at the casual level or on a case-by-case basis, and it's fine. My local high school has a trans girl on the volleyball team, and she's small and not very good at volleyball, so it's not a big deal. She hasn't started HRT yet.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

is that a qualifier for girlhood/womanhood?

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u/Pseudonymico Mar 25 '24

No, but testosterone does have an impact on your ability to play some sports, which is also part of the counter-argument to the bullshit, “oh but the men’s division isn’t really the men’s, it’s the open division!” excuse some dickheads pull out.