US EditionNoa-Lynn Van Leuven Responds to World Darts Federation Transgender Ruling
NETHERLANDS, JUL 31 – The World Darts Federation restricted women's tournaments to biologically female players to ensure fairness, affecting top transgender player Noa-Lynn van Leuven and following member votes.
- On Monday, the World Darts Federation implemented a policy limiting WDF Women's and Girls tournaments to players designated female at birth, as the WDF said.
- Amid debates over fairness in elite sport, the WDF members voted this week to restrict participation to those assigned female at birth, following a proposal launched in a general meeting.
- Taking to Instagram Wednesday, van Leuven said, "This decision does affect me personally though, thankfully, not too severely at this point in time. But still, it hurts,"" and criticised the policy as exclusionary.
- Consequently, van Leuven is ineligible for WDF women's championships despite satisfying DRA gender requirements, though she remains eligible in PDC events.
- That backlash escalated when at the World Matchplay in Blackpool, three protesters were removed after confronting van Leuven with a “he's a man” banner, and teammates Aileen de Graaf and Anca Zijlstra resigned in protest.
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