Trans Darts Star Sidelined, Vows to Return

0:00It's April 9th. This is Canada News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Corey with the story. A big shake up in Darts. The Darts Regulation Authority just wrote out a new rule, saying only biological females can play in women's tournaments. That means 29-year-old transgender player, Noah Lynn Van Leven, from the Netherlands, is sidelined from those events effective this week. Van Leven made history last year as the first transgender woman to compete at the professional Darts Corporation World Championship. She'd been throwing in the women's series, but now she's out of that category, though she can still enter open PDC events. She's fired back strong on Instagram, saying she feels forced into retirement, but an quitting. In a video and message, she made it clear this is just a pit stop. She's heading back to the drawing board. The Authority kicked off a policy review earlier this year, pulling in a developmental biologist report on sex categories in sports, plus heavy. Legal input. They say it's all about keeping things fair on the board.

1:02Van Leven's plotting her next moves, legal or otherwise, and the Darts World watches close as this debate heats up. Stay tuned for how she bounces back.