Noa-Lynn van Leuven, the first transgender darts player to compete against men in the PDC World Darts Championship, is facing controversy despite her success on the Women's Series. Media coverage often misrepresents her transition story, leading to misunderstandings and unfair assumptions.
While the world focuses on her as the first transgender darts player to play against men in the PDC World Darts Championship, for Noa-Lynn van Leuven her story is simply about finding joy in playing the game she loves. Her accomplishment comes off the back of a hugely successful two years on the Women's Series where she has won four events, most recently the Women's Series 21 in Leicester, and appeared in the Grand Slam of Darts.
World Darts Championship: Full 2024/25 scheduleStream the World Darts Championship with no contractAll you need to know about the World Darts ChampionshipBut this success has brought an unhealthy dose of controversy, including being booed at the Grand Slam of Darts in November, and inflated attention from the press. For the 28-year-old, this media coverage misrepresents the full truth of her experience of transitioning, which dates back over 10 years and has nothing to do with her competitive darts career. \'With everything I do, there\'s always people that want to make an article about it. And some are positive, and that\'s really nice,\' Van Leuven said. \'But some of them have been a bit ****. And that\'s annoying. Because a lot of newspapers, they don\'t reach out to me to talk to me. \'They\'re like \'Noa-Lynn transitioned in 2022\'. I did not. I transitioned about nine, 10 years ago. \'They make it look like, okay, Noa-Lynn transitioned in 2021, a year before she started appearing on the women\'s tournament. That\'s not true. \'They\'re almost making it look like, OK, she wasn\'t good enough with the men, and now she\'s just going to do this. Ultimately, Van Leuven insists she is in the sport to \'beat the best\' no matter what gender and cannot understand the claim that anyone, let alone she, would \'transition to just be better in the sport\'
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