{"id":2206486,"date":"2024-03-26T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-darts-player-wins-against-men-and-women-same-week-2-female-teammates-quit\/"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T16:19:50","slug":"trans-identifying-darts-player-wins-against-men-and-women-same-week-2-female-teammates-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-identifying-darts-player-wins-against-men-and-women-same-week-2-female-teammates-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dart Player Identifying as Trans Triumphs Against Both Genders, Prompting Departure of 2 Female Teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-identifying-darts-player-wins-against-men-and-women-same-week-2-female-teammates-quit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2206486&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A controversy arose when a trans-identifying darts \u2064player won titles\u200d against men \u200dand women in one week. Noa-Lynn van Leuven triumphed at the PDC Women\u2019s Series and the Challenge Tour, sparking debate. Criticism ensued, leading two \u2064teammates to quit the Dutch\u2064 women\u2019s team\u2064 in protest. The incident ignited a discussion on fairness\u2064 and equality\u2063 in sports. A controversy unfolded when a trans-identifying darts player clinched titles\u200b against male and female competitors within a week. Noa-Lynn van Leuven&#8217;s victories\u2064 at \u200bthe PDC Women&#8217;s Series and the Challenge Tour stirred discussions. Criticism prompted two teammates to resign from the\u2062 Dutch women&#8217;s team in objection, raising debates on fairness and equality in sports.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-type-of-misogyny-trans-women-fetishizing-periods-is-a-slippery-slope\/\" title=\"\u2018New Type Of Misogyny\u2019: Trans Women Fetishizing Periods Is A Slippery Slope\">trans-identifying man<\/a> is facing backlash after he won professional darts\u00a0titles against both men and women within the same week.<\/p>\n<p>Darts star Noa-Lynn van Leuven, 27, a man who identifies as a woman, <a href=\"https:\/\/reduxx.info\/netherlands-two-female-darts-players-leave-dutch-womens-team-in-response-to-participation-of-trans-identified-male\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> victory 5-2 on\u00a0Saturday <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/noa-lynn-van-leuven-becomes-104245827.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">against<\/a> Ireland\u2019s Katie Sheldon at the PDC Women\u2019s Series event in Wigan, England.<\/p>\n<p>The win came just days after van Leuven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdc.tv\/news\/2024\/03\/15\/van-leuven-eidams-celebrate-maiden-challenge-tour-titles-hildesheim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won<\/a> a PDC Tour event on the Challenge Tour in\u00a0Hildesheim, <span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\">Germany. That event is open to both men and women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back wins prompted sharp criticism online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain- women get the short end of the stick either way. And it stinks,\u201d former Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova posted Sunday on X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VICTORY FOR VAN LEUVEN! \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1<\/p>\n<p>Noa-Lynn van Leuven clinches her maiden PDC Women&#8217;s Series title in Wigan! \ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p>Van Leuven overcomes some late double trouble to defeat Irish youngster Katie Sheldon in the Event Two final! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fEnlFzMQk3\">pic.twitter.com\/fEnlFzMQk3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialPDC\/status\/1771617993891500528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Again- women get the short end of the stick either way. And it stinks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ehmlIikIQb\">https:\/\/t.co\/ehmlIikIQb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Martina Navratilova (@Martina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martina\/status\/1771908865254216029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two of van Leuven\u2019s teammates also responded by quitting the Netherlands national women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Players Aileen de Graaf and Anca Zijlstra both released statements on their decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moment when you feel ashamed to play for the Dutch team because a biological man plays on the women\u2019s team, it\u2019s time to go,\u201d Zijlstra wrote. \u201cI have tried to accept this, but I cannot condone this. I believe that sports should be an equal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-transgender-athletes-dominated-womens-sports\/\" title=\"5 Times Transgender Athletes Dominated Women\u2019s Sports\">fair playing field<\/a>, handled and accepted as such in good conscience. After all, we have worked so hard to be relevant and competitive in this sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1711543561428000&#038;usg=AOvVaw27HCc4SlNuAzsp-mheIL9C\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>De Graaf said, \u201dAt some point you have to make choices when something goes against your feelings. You have to do what feels right for you. Hence my decision to leave the Dutch team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Graaf is currently ranked #2 in the world for women\u2019s darts, <a href=\"https:\/\/dartswdf.com\/rankings\/wdf-main-ranking-women\">according<\/a> to the World Darts Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining four people on the Dutch women\u2019s team, including van Leuven, will play in the upcoming Four Nations tournament against Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg on April 13 and 14.<\/p>\n<p>Van Leuven responded to his teammates\u2019 departure in brief comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t really feel the need to go further into it. This has been their choice and not mine. I think the only unfortunate thing about this issue is that a lot of people forget that I am also a human being,\u201d van Leuven <a href=\"https:\/\/nos-nl.translate.goog\/artikel\/2514076-dartsters-stappen-uit-oranje-selectie-omdat-teamgenoot-trans-vrouw-is?_x_tr_sl=fr&#038;_x_tr_tl=en&#038;_x_tr_hl=en&#038;_x_tr_pto=wapp&#038;_x_tr_hist=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Dutch outlet NOS.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, van Leuven told The Guardian that he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-penn-swimmer-lia-thomas-says-i-belong-on-the-womens-team\/\" title=\"Trans Penn Swimmer Lia Thomas Says \u201cI Belong on the Women\u2019s Team\u201d\">started identifying<\/a> as transgender at 16 or 17 at a time when he was deeply unhappy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was getting more and more unhappy with myself, to a point that I didn\u2019t want to live any more,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/jul\/14\/noa-lynn-van-leuven-darts-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy around van Leuven echoes controversies in the U.S. involving trans-identifying males in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>This month, more than a dozen female college athletes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5atlanta.com\/news\/female-athletes-lawsuit-georgia-university-system-ncaa-transgender-policies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed<\/a> a federal lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/riley-gaines-shares-messages-shes-gotten-from-female-athletes-competing-against-trans-identifying-males\/\" title=\"Riley Gaines shares messages from female athletes competing against trans-identifying males.\">trans-identifying male swimmer<\/a>, Lia Thomas competing at the national championships in 2022.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trans-identifying individual is under scrutiny for winning darts titles against male and female competitors in a single week. Noa-Lynn van Leuven, a 27-year-old individual identifying as a woman, secured a 5-2 victory over Ireland\u2019s Katie Sheldon at the PDC Women\u2019s Series event in Wigan, England. The controversial win occurred just days after important matches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2206487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-651423837.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/03\/GettyImages-651423837.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2206487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}