Whoa! Our Body Strength Really Makes A Difference In This Sport!

We are always getting called out in any sports even in the sport of darts! Now there is a sport that just doesn’t make any sense to have men and women’s teams, but…

Trans darts player speaks out amid abuse over event win: ‘I am also a human being’
Transgender darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven is facing abuse online after winning a professional women’s series event, beating the world number one along the way.
The Pink News
By Sophie Perry
March 25, 2024

Having beaten Beau Graves in the quarter finals of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) event, Dutch player Noa-Lynn van Leuven, 27, went on to triumph over Ireland’s Katie Sheldon in the final in Wigan on Saturday (23 March), to take home the £2,000 prize.

Leuven’s 5-2 victory comes a week after she made history by becoming the first trans player to win a PDC tour event, on the Challenge Tour in Germany – an event open to both men and women.

But her win has been followed by a torrent of transphobic abuse on social media, including misgendering Leuven and claiming she is “only” trans to win darts titles.

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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.”

Okay, why is there a male and female teams in darts? It seems to me that darts do not require physical strength but rather hand eye coordination.

She waited three of four years after transitioning to get back to playing darts, she said.

“I was playing darts for nine years and I was missing something in life, then I started playing again. I missed the game, I missed the people.”

So it seems to me that the only reason why that are a men’s and women’s dart teams is so they can hand out two trophies.

Top End Sports writes,

There are many other sports in which skill is predominantly the main factor of success, which you can realistically see women being competitive with the men. Sports such as darts, archery, shooting, auto-racing and tenpin bowling could potentially have women competing at the elite level against the men, however it is not often the case. This is because there are other factors other than physiology and skill which determine the success of women on the sporting field. The lack of opportunity and encouragement of women to play sport in many parts of the world results in fewer women playing sport, resulting in a smaller talent pool and therefore less chance of women being successful.

STOP Right There! Did you catch, “Sports such as darts, archery, shooting…” it seems that there is no problem with women competing in men’s sport. That skill is a major factors and not physiology.

Over the years, several women have taken on the men at their own game, with varying success. At a swimming meet in 1922, female backstroker Sybil Bauer finished the 440-yard event in a time of 6:24.8, which was about four seconds ahead of the then men's world record mark. In more recent times, Danica Patrick in auto racing and Kelly Kulick on the Professional Bowlers Association tour have shown that women can compete and win on an individual basis.

But as soon a trans woman completes all the conservatives get up in a tizzy.
 

Major League Baseball allows men and women to play in MLB! The Baseball Hall of Fame writes.

For four years, the professional baseball world got to experience something that it had rarely seen before: A woman on the diamond.

From 1997-2000, Ila Borders pitched in 52 minor league baseball games with four different teams, finishing with a 2-4 record and 6.75 ERA.

A barrier was broken! With no jumping up and down by the conservatives. Can you imagine if it was a trans woman who did that?

The Bleacher Report has an article, 20 Great Women Who Can Play with the Men.

    WNBA star Candace Parker plays forward for the Los Angeles Sparks, but she has some experience competing with the boys.

    Two years after becoming the first girl in Illinois to dunk a basketball in a high school game, Parker won the 2004 McDonald's High School All-American dunk contest in Oklahoma City, competing against some of the top male athletes in the country.

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    In 2006, Alaskan high school sophomore Michaela Hutchison became the first girl in the country to win a state wrestling title while competing against boys.

    Hutchison won the 103-pound weight class at the state championship and entered the tournament ranked No. 1 in her weight class.

Now here is a sport that shouldn’t have a men and women’s division… Competitive eating!

    Sonya Thomas is a competitive eater who holds dozens of world records and is better known by her nickname, The Black Widow. Don't let her 98-pound frame fool you, Thomas is ranked No. 6 in the world.

    In 2011, Thomas won the U.S. Chicken Wing Eating Championship in Buffalo, N.Y. She ate 183 chicken wings in 12 minutes—beating her previous world record mark set a year earlier.

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    Dutch Muay Thai fighter Germaine De Randamie began competing in Strikeforce in 2011 and is an up-and-coming talent in MMA.

    De Randamie is best known for her 2007 fight with Belgian actor Tom Waes, who had agreed to fight her after just three months of training. He was knocked out in the first round.

Hey we don’t want any trans women racing… but why? If a woman can win in the men’s division why have a men’s and women’s division?

    In May 2011, Canadian golfer Isabelle Beisiegel became the first female golfer in history to earn a playing card on the men's professional tour.

    Several women, including Annika Sorestam and Michelle Wie, have played in individual events in recent years—but Beisiegel's achievement sets her apart from them.

Question: if men and women can compete on the same team and women can win along side of men, why segregate teams into men’s and women’s team?

This is nothing more than an attempt to stir up anomsity against the trans community.