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i read this today in the sun newspaper this is prejiduce of the highest order

A LADIES darts team claim they were kicked out of a league because one of their players used to be a bloke.

Melanie Partlow joined the side two years ago after a sex op transformed her from a married forklift truck driver called Mick.

One-legged Melanie, 57, a double top specialist, became a star and helped win several cups.

But now Colliers B ladies have been axed from the Cheslyn Hay women’s league near Cannock, Staffs.

Officials say it is because team members have used foul and abusive language during matches.

But the players believe it is because opponents have complained about Melanie.

Captain Leanne Gardiner, 29, said: “They gave us no official reason, but it’s obviously prejudice against Melanie.



“They said there had been a vote by ten of the 12 teams in the league and they didn’t want us in it.

“Melanie is feeling awful as it’s pretty clear that it’s down to her.

“The other players often ignored her, but nothing was said to her face.

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“We’re all behind Melanie - it’s disgusting what’s happened.”

Transsexual Melanie, from Cannock, had her sex-change op in Thailand after she and her then-wife Sue won £250,000 on the lottery — a story revealed by The Sun two years ago.

The redhead, who lost part of a leg after an illness, said joining the darts team was the only thing that kept her from a complete breakdown during bouts of depression.

She said: “They all know about me and I answer every question they ask, including the one most people are scared to ask.

“Most women are OK with me, but some refuse to shake my hand and won’t touch me.

“It’s daft because I feel as much of a woman as they are.”

A league spokesman said: “Some women do find her a bit off-putting, but it is the team’s language that was the problem.”

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Transphobia is all over the world!


(Me)

You know what bugs me?

That people should have a right to be comfortable, and sadly in this world so full of diversity it seems inevitable that we're all making one another uncomfortable, all the time.

At what point the personal right of those ladies not to feel "yuck" with a transsexual woman near them stops and the right of the transsexual woman herself to be there begins?

I know, I know, we all here are likely to side with Melanie. But truth is we all need some spaces where we don't want certain people around. Refuges. This place, for example, where we exclude men and non-trans women.

So, say, in a public space that belongs to a business, at what point do they have the right to protect the comfort of the majority? I know, a terrible slippery slope and dangerous, too.

Even so, sometimes I wonder if one has the right to be where one is not wanted. Up to what point? Isn't it a Pyrrhic victory to earn the right to be there? In the end, both the people who hate your guts and you are unhappy, whatever your rights.

Did Melanie let her team know she was post op before they got kicked off???

yep her team did indeed and accepted her too

Sounds like something an activist would post here

If people are uncomfortable, it's because of our species inborn bigotry. There's no reason to feel bad about bursting people's bubbles in that case.

Melanie should be damned pissed that her fat cussing slaggards of teammates used stinking foul language and got their frikkin team screwed. How rude of them to blame it on Melanie. The league spokesman told them the reason and the team chooses to point fingers at a poor one legged teammate? It just disgusts me when handicapped people get dumped on like this. If I were Melanie I would find another team and one that could be OK with her missing leg.

At this rate Transsexual = Scapegoat? It is game of fucking Darts for Christsakes! The Natals are really messed up over there.

No. Its the cussing that is the culprit. Why do you deny the official statement? It wasn't Melanie but her teammates who got the team kicked off. Foul mouthed teammates who are now pointing fingers at a poor amputee and blaming her.