Emotional statement time
Drop everything and pay attention!
Trans darts star releases emotional statement after being banned from playing against women
Let me guess – the “trans darts star” in question is actually a male darts star who pretends to be a woman? And he’s “emotional” because he’s not being allowed to play against women? It’s so interesting how even right-wing journalists carefully avoid clarity on this subject.
Dutch darts professional Noa-Lynn van Leuven has addressed the World Darts Federation’s new regulations that ban transgender women from female competitions.
Seeing as how transgender women are men, of course they should be banned from women’s competitions. Duh.
Earlier this week, the WDF decided to take action to prevent biological men from facing biological women.
But Van Leuven has been left disappointed, with the 28-year-old lamenting the ban and taking aim at officials.
Too bad, cheater. Lament and take aim all you want; you’re still a cheater.
“I want to take a moment to respond. This decision does affect me personally though, thankfully, not too severely at this point in time. But still, it hurts.
Once again, it’s a loss for the trans community in sports. And that breaks my heart.
As a trans person in the darts world, I know how vital inclusion is not just on paper, but in practice. It’s disheartening to see yet another policy framed around ‘fairness’ that ultimately results in exclusion, without truly considering the people behind the labels.”
Blither blither blither. Define “inclusion.” Explain why “inclusion” means including men in women’s sports but not, say, including gorillas in male sports. Explain how we can truly consider the people behind the labels such that it becomes reasonable and fair to allow some men to compete against women. Take a break from throwing around the stale buzzwords and actually explain how this works.
“My heart goes out to all the athletes impacted by this. We remain visible. We keep going.”
Oh you remain visible all right. One way or another, you get on camera.
Well, hearten up, mate. ‘Fairness’ always involves exclusion of someone or something. Males are excluded from female sports for reasons having to do with sexual dimorphism; different musculature, etc. Your decision to go around dressed up as a woman cannot hide that reality, or the advantage it would confer if you were admitted to compete anywhere as a woman.
Maybe you could persuade the organisers of some kids’ athletic carnival to let you compete in that. It would likely work as long as none of them have their crap detectors switched on.
He can be visible all he wants, competing in the men’s division.
Don’t worry about visibility. You stick out like a sore thumb, fella.
A particularly screwy thing about this dude is that he plays in men’s competitions too, and wins them.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/dutch-trans-darts-noa-lynn-van-leuvensparks-outrage-win-pdc-titles/
Nobody is stopping him from playing darts, or from winning at darts. He can dress however he likes, wear lipstick, call himself The Duchess, and play darts with men.
I think journalists should be careful about using terms like ‘take aim’ when talking about a darts champion.
And, once again, no one mentions that ‘inclusion’ of men in women’s sports will almost certainly exclude some, maybe eventually most, women.
Sane people, if they haven’t joined the trans cult, can agree that men have a natural advantage in sports where strength is important, but I don’t feel that darts is such a sport: is it? Is physical strength any more important in darts than it is, say, in chess?
There is a gap between male and female performance.
Athel, I think I might have expressed that view a while back when this came up previously. I recall someone putting me straight.
Even if there were no gap, the competition is still single-sex. Honors for female writers and entrepreneurs don’t claim a skill gap. Why exclude (other) men from the women’s competition just because they don’t claim to be women?
I couldn’t find the discussion I thought I remembered, but here’s a comment from Acolyte of Sagan.
https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2024/a-wave-of-abyooos-and-exclooosion/#comment-3043897
I also found this link.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/darts/article-13400039/Former-world-No-1-sports-psychology-expert-reveals-scientifically-UNFAIR-transgender-darts-players-compete-female-events-Deta-Hedman-Denmark-Open-withdrawal.html
And for those interested, Duffy’s Thesis.
https://repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/840vq
Rob, that might have been my comment here: https://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2024/a-wave-of-abyooos-and-exclooosion/
For avoidance of confusion: Rob’s comment #9 was held because of links, so AoS hadn’t seen it when composing #10.
Thanks Ophelia. AoS, I suspect you’re right but my brain is so foggy at the moment I’m just not sure.