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she was stepping away “with pain in my heart” –- before world number two Aileen de Graaf quit hours later in vowing to no longer represent the Netherlands.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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Now the darts. This damned virus gets everywhere. Bloody insulting to both men and women but I suppose it is intended to be.
The darts authorities should be ashamed of themselves.
I wonder what Jocky and Eric would have said to this.
Gerwen Price’s face will be a picture if he gets confronted with this ladee.
But I’m yet to read of a single FtM ( female to male ) trans person infiltrate a male sporting event and have the men be all up in arms about it. Hell, I’ve not even read of a single FtM prisoner insist on being placed in a male prison or a FtM trans person get caught out in a men’s toilet/changing room. Bit one-sided, all of this cheating, perving and trampling of sex-based rights isn’t it?
Spot on Mogs.
(Reply to “double bagger” posted.)
Well all I will say is that I like my men the same way I like my laundry detergent: biological. Preferably intact with plenty of enzymes too, though I don’t mind if they fail to pass the ‘Daz Doorstep Challenge’
Meaning of ‘double bagger’ duly noted.
Better watch out or laundry detergent will soon want to compete in women’s sport. There will be those who insist that we should not discriminate against detergents.
Nearly. With one each though you can pretend it is a kinky game. BFGs have feelings too. BFG = Big Fat Gopper.
Off – T
https://www.globalresearch.ca/kate-middleton-diagnosed-cancer/5853002
Turbo cancer – not good. If true the Windsors have been had.
The silent vast majority, even according to the woke BBC’s own survey which they try to report as softly as possible:
‘More than 100 elite British sportswomen have told the BBC they would be uncomfortable with transgender women competing in female categories in their sport…
…Only 11 said they feel comfortable or very comfortable.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/68564019
Can someone explain to me why darts competitions need to be sex based in the first place
That was my first thought, although there doesn’t seem to be any advantage, the women’s oche is closer to the board,still not really an advantage, but if this man/women can win in both categories why doesn’t he just leave the women to their own sport and compete against men?
What Mogs said further up this post is spot on, why don’t you see any female to male trans competing in men’s sports?
The sexual divide in darts exists as a result of biology – women do not have the same degree of hand / eye co-ordination as men and so can rarely compete at the same level.
Fair play to Fallon Sherrock because she has competed against men and had some notable victories. However, I would consider the chances of a woman winning a major Darts title pretty much non-existent.
A billiard lady pro spoke on GB News last week about this – although there is generally no advantage being male in a non contact, non power, non endurance sport, the power inherent in darts and billard is still evident. In billiard, the male arm is longer. Hence there is no need for that wooden extension device. I assume in darts the power would play a part? The throw? But, if there is a distinct category based on sex, then why mix the two?
Ridiculous of course. Interestingly, I’ve read comments about why the reverse doesn’t seem to happen i.e. women transitioning to men and wanting to invade male spaces like sports, prisons and toilets. Well, that’s pretty obvious isn’t it? The male world is more difficult; less chance of winning in sport and more chance of being abused in prison. As for invading male toilets, women have been doing that in pubs for decades. I’ve lost count of the number of times a woman has brazenly, and without any respect at all for male privacy, come into the men’s toilets because there’s a queue at theirs, usually passing some comment which they think is funny and shows what a strong character they are. Tell you what ladies, if you don’t want that queue that annoys you, take your leak and get out, instead of spending 20 mins redoing your makeup – like the guys do… or used to do!
You do know why you have so many dislikes. Comparing the inconvenience of a lady in a male toilet to invading women’s sports is just silly. And unhelpful. We see women in a men’s toilet because of time constraint. They don’t come to perve at your penis. On the contrary, men pretending to be women have been caught having a hard on in women’s toilet, changing room, and even the swimming pool.
Well done to the two women who quit.
The nonsense will only stop when ALL women and girls refuse to participate in any kind of sport in which biological men can compete with them by claiming to be a woman. And it has to happen from school onwards.
Are there any women playing in the men’s game disguised as blokes or is it all one way traffic?
I appreciate that women have put a lot of time, effort, money and dedication into their sport, and the idea of not competing because they feel strongly that men should not be competing against women might make them feel they will have wasted all of that. But there really is only one way that this is going to stop, and that is if women point blank refuse to participate in sports where they are asked to compete against men. You cannot have sporting events without competitors, and I guarantee that sporting authorities will back down. ———For those who still think women are being unfair, I recall a few years ago when Serena Willimas was asked how she thought she would get on playing against men. —She replied “If I played Andy Murray I would lose 6-0 6-0. ——-Nuff said.
Surely the main point here is that this person, who is a trans woman – and trans women ARE women – has decided that he/she/whatever is in fact actually a man on one day (which just happens to be the day of the men’s contest), therefore misgendering him/herself and engaging in transphobia, before remembering that he is in fact actually a woman on another day (which just happens to be the day of the women’s contest). You’ve got to pick one side or the other, surely, regardless of whether or not it’s fair?
Well done to the Mail for referring to this cheat as a Dutchman and using male pronouns in the article.
And a man has ruined the enjoyment of thousands of women at the Hampstead Swimming pool!