Transgender darts player causes controversy after win on PDC Women's Series leads to team-mates refusing to play
Transgender darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven has spoken out after the backlash following their victory in Wigan last week, beating the likes of Fallon Sherrock on the PDC Women's Series.
That has led to two of Van Leuven's team-mates pulling out of the Netherlands national team together.
That has led to two of Van Leuven's team-mates pulling out of the Netherlands national team together.
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00:00 Noeline van Leeuwen has caused plenty of controversy after winning on the PDC
00:07 women's series. The transgendered dance player has spoken out after the backlash
00:11 following the victory in Wigan, beating the likes of Fan and Sherrick on the PDC
00:16 women's series. That has led to two of van Leeuwen's teammates pulling out of
00:21 the Netherlands national team together. Eileen de Graaff and Anke Zylstra took
00:26 issue with van Leeuwen's eligibility to compete against women, adding to the
00:30 outrage that has been taking place on social media. Both de Graaff and Zylstra
00:35 released statements confirming their decision to withdraw from the Dutch team
00:39 for the four nations tournament in early April. This has led to van Leeuwen
00:44 herself responding as she said "I don't really feel the need to go further into
00:48 it. This has been their choice and not mine. I think the only unfortunate thing
00:53 about this issue is that a lot of people forget that I am also a human being."