Wyoming University’s Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority is admitting a transgender student as a member after a judge rejected a lawsuit brought by six female sorority sisters. The six female students told U.S. District Court judge, Alan B. Johnson, that the presence of Artemis Langford – a 6’2″ biological male – made them uncomfortable and that Langford was not in fact a transgender woman.
Several female sorority members told the judge that Artemis Lanford would watch them undress, and in the course of doing so the biological male exhibited sexual arousal in the form of an erection.
Judge Johnson dismissed the lawsuit brought against the KKG national sorority organization and its leadership, stating:
The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today. The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman’, otherwise undefined in the non-profit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.
The judge acknowledged that while the KKG by-laws limited membership to only women, the same by-laws did not actually define what constitutes a “woman.”
Following the vote to admit Langford as a sister last year, female members of the KKG chapter spoke to the press saying they felt pressured by sorority leadership to admit the biological male.
