Transgender darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven won two titles against both men and women in the same week, sparking fury and prompting two female teammates to quit. The Mail has more.
The 27-year-old Dutchman’s 5-2 final win against Ireland’s Katie Sheldon at the PDC Women’s Series event in Wigan on Saturday prompted two of his national female team mates to sensationally quit the team in protest.
Van Leuven – who beat ‘Queen of the Palace’ Fallon Sherrock and world number one Beau Greaves on his way to claiming the £2,000 prize money – has now hit back after being bombarded with vicious comments on social media saying: “I just want to do my thing, but it seems like people have to comment.”
The victory comes just a week after van Leuven made history by becoming the first trans woman to win a PDC Tour event on the Challenge Tour in Hildesheim, Germany.
But his wins have sparked condemnation of the governing body the Darts Regulation Authority and the PDC over its transgender policy, with tennis star Martina Navratilova wading into the row, saying the win “stinks” because “again – women get the short end of the stick”.
Speaking to Darts News, van Leuven said about the reaction to his win: “But it seems like people have to comment.
“They often don’t even read what is written. They immediately have the reflex: so, we can go on. While I see myself as the first woman to win a Challenge Tour tournament.”
Two of Van Leuven’s Dutch compatriots have now left their national team in protest following Saturday’s win.
Anca Zijlstra revealed she was stepping away “with pain in my heart” –- before world number two Aileen de Graaf quit hours later in vowing to no longer represent the Netherlands.
Zijlstra, 50, wrote on Facebook: “That moment when you’re embarrassed to come out for the Dutch team, because a biological man is playing on the women’s team, it’s time to go.
“I have tried to accept this but I can’t approve or validate this.
“I think that in sports there should be an equal and fair playing field. I hope with all my heart and for all women in sports that people come to their senses.”
De Graaf, 33, said: “If someone doesn’t feel good in the body they were born in, I encourage everyone to change that and be happy. I just don’t think it’s right for a biological man to throw for the women or vice-versa. It’s either mixed or not.”
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So poaching nurses from overseas, which will lead to a shortage in poorer countries. Fuck the poor, eh? Typical western approach.
Exactly what i first thought. What about patients in Kenya?
They can all move here and get free health care. And houses and money.
Millions went hungry in Kenya last year, collateral damage from our lockdowns. They don’t care about black lives unless they’re in Britain.
This has been happening for at least 20 years. Nurses from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India and multiple African countries. I’m not going to get into discussion about being supernumerary or employed. They need to keep the 50:50 split between academia and clinical practice has to remain, simulation cannot substitute for real life.
But the Wah!NHS depends on stealing from the poor including countries poorer than here.
Obvs the Wah!NHS loses staff to countries with a 1st world healthcare system at the same time.
The quality of degree trained nurses is inferior to the SRNs & RGNs which they superseded, far less hands on experience & the result is HCAs are now used as the SRNs with less training & for far less remuneration. This change seriously reduced the quality of in-patient care.
the SEN SRN system seemed to work well for many years, until they decided to mess with it.
I wonder what the drop out rate is for these classroom trained “higher educated” nurses the first time they have to deal with some whacked out junkie that’s shuffling around in a psychotic delirium with its soiled underpants around its ankles.
Best to get that introduction to reality done up front, I suspect.
The new ‘degree’ nurses won’t deal with patients who have soiled themselves or other such ‘demeaning’ tasks. They believe they are above such things. My sister left school at 16 and went through every stage from Nursery Nurse through SRN/SCM to Matron. That’s the way to learn and deliver (forgive the pun) true care. Before she retired the Nursing 2000 graduates were talking down to her and refusing to do basic nursing tasks. Maybe the Overseas nurses are more interested in patient care than letters after their name.
Isn’t Kenya where the UK wouldn’t let people enter because of defective AZ vaccines ( how they tell the difference?)? What could possibly go wrong.
Defective?
The UK gifted them to Kenya FFS.
Talk about bureaucratic ineptitude.
Importing nurses from Kenya? There was a story last year that many people were going hungry in Kenya in part because of the UK’s lockdown and related measures, that people were eating giraffes to survive and teenage girls doing “bad things”. Well, I hope that they are going to ensure that there are enough nurses to look after people in Kenya as well. It wouldn’t be very nice to make millions of poor people in Africa suffer again, would it?
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I thought there were supposed to be many highly qualified nurses and doctors among all the “refugees” arriving by RNLI taxi in Dover aren’t there? No?
Mandating vaccinations is probably not the way to entice people into nursing or midwifery and yet that is the direction we are going into. However, your head will spin when you see how quickly this gov’t makes up for the falling numbers by enticing all double vaxxed nurses from the Phillipines and India to this country in lickety split time. No loyalty to all those frontline nurses and midwives who put their lives at risk(who most likely have a very strong immunity related to being exposed to Covid repetitively). That is the UK in a nutshell. Not one ounce of loyalty to their own, but we now have fifteen Afghan families living next door in a best western. The males assisted the British military in Afghanistan. But the nurses and midwives who served their fellow Brits, here in the UK during the Covid war are treated with contempt. Told they need a vaccine passport. Treated like criminals.
what can be expected of the N&MC when they appointed as Chief Registrar the same muppet who guided the banal Care Quality Commissions social care division and who repeatedly stated without a trace of irony or insight that there is not a link between quality-of-care and fee rates, right – so go tell that to the airline industry or the hotel sector or a car salesman … and then this dope gets to be the boss at N&MC, and we are left wondering what does a member of the elite Idiocracy have to do to get a reputation that matches their incompetence
There will soon be plenty of health care professionals from USA, Aus, Can, NZ, that will be looking for jobs if we have the guts to offer them one and not insist on requiring a useless jab to perform their duties.
Win, win…