Court Rules Against Sorority Sisters Who Sued Over Biological Male Admitted to University of Wyoming Chapter
“A federal district court ruled Friday that a national sorority organization did not violate its own bylaws by allowing a biological man to live in a sorority house and dismissed the complaint from sorority sisters”
Members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority sued the University of Wyoming this spring because a biological male was allowed to join and the girls claimed he would “become physically aroused around them.”
The girls told their story on the Megyn Kelly podcast in May:
The seven sisters spoke to Megyn Kelly about how they’ve started to feel vulnerable and scared to live in the KKG house:
However, the student, who is referred to as “he” and “him” in the suit, still often stays for meals and attends events with the women, their attorney told Megyn Kelly on her podcast Monday.
“It’s a weird, gut-wrenching feeling that every time I leave my room there’s a possibility that I’ll walk past him in the hall,” one of the sorority sisters, Hannah, told Kelly.
“It’s a weird feeling just to know that I could run into him anytime … (he has) full access to the house. But this just goes to show like we need women’s spaces for that reason,” she continued…
The lawsuit alleges gross behavior by Langford:
“One sorority member walked down the hall to take a shower, wearing only a towel. She felt an unsettling presence, turned, and saw Mr. Smith watching her silently,” the lawsuit alleges.
In another disturbing incident, the lawsuit alleges Langford has even become physically aroused.
“Mr. Smith has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit says. “Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.”
Unfortunately, a court just ruled against the girls.
The Daily Caller reports:
Court Rules Biological Man Allowed In Sorority
A federal district court ruled Friday that a national sorority organization did not violate its own bylaws by allowing a biological man to live in a sorority house and dismissed the complaint from sorority sisters, according to court documents.
Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sorority sisters sued the national organization in March for admitting a biological male into the University of Wyoming chapter, alleging that the national organization violated its bylaws and that 6 foot 2 biological male Artemis Langford, who identifies as trans, watched women in the house get undressed. Judge Alan B. Johnson of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan, ruled that the national organization can interpret its own definitions as it wants to and didn’t breach its housing contracts by allowing a biological man to board with women, according to court documents.
The sorority sisters argued that KKG must enact new bylaws to define what a woman is and allow that into the sorority house, but the court disagreed. “Defining ‘woman’ is Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bedrock right as a private, voluntary organization – and one this Court may not invade,” the decision reads.
This is the student in question. What a farce.
Students sue University Of Wyoming sorority for accepting transgender member https://t.co/vUuZAwLv7X pic.twitter.com/mUdY3FtSga
— New York Post (@nypost) April 1, 2023
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Pro tip for sororities everywhere: Do not allow men to join, send them to a fraternity!
I was in a fraternity in college, and our national organization had nothing whatsoever to do with the new member (‘pledge’) selection process. In fact, in our fraternity it took just a single member to ‘blackball’ a candidate when we held the chapter meeting to select who would be given bids to join as a pledge. There was a lot of horse-trading that went on, but I assure you had we been a sorority and some creepy pedo tranny was trying to join he would have been blackballed so fast and so hard that his wig would have flown off.
Defining a “Woman” is done by biology. It clearly isn’t an individual organization’s right. A 6’2″ individual with a schlong doesn’t even come close. Can a single man define himself as married with 6 kids for tax purposes too?
Young women are being targeted by this trans movement until they give up and submit. Farce or no the Marxists are getting away with it.
The key is not to submit. Require our ideological political opposition and the woke weirdo bureaucracy to compel compliance. IMO, the mistake these young women made was allowing their secret ballot to be overturned. Had they chosen that moment to refuse it might have been different. As it is they allowed the corruption of the vote by agreeing to participate which the National and the CT is using to hammer them.
So true. Decent young women just assumed that decency would win the day. It will take smart maneuvering and a large dose of indecency to beat back this onslaught from the left..
There have always been perverts and pedophiles in positions of power or in positions of wealth to donate to crooked politicans in furtherance of the perverts and pedophiles’ sexual rape deisres with innocent young women and men and children. Hollywood and Washington DC are two great examples (Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton, Biden, Sen Robert Menedez, Jeffery Epstein,
The pervs and pedophiles broke the dam with Bill Clinton’s normalization of oral sex for young people. And they’ve been covering ever since for Clinton, Weinstein, Epstein, Biden’s and the like’s rape charges,
Now, they’ve partnered with the left, who politically are the biggest poltiical whores in history, and they’ve gotten the mental illness of transvestism not only “normalized” but have enabled male rapits to be housed in women’s prisons, goofballs like Will Thomas parading around naked in women’s locker rooms and this idiot exposing himself to sorority girls.
Good thing we’ve had warriors like McConnell, Ronna and Mittens Romney, Graham, Boehner and the rest of the GOPe fighting for our country and its virtue on our behalf. Oh, wait….
Btw: two of the biggest pimps for rapists and pedophiles in America have been Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton
British Actress: Oprah Winfrey ‘Pimped Me Like A Whore’ To Weinstein:
https://twitter.com/LemonTrifle/status/1576815685400788992?lang=en
Rose McGowan Laces Into Oprah Winfrey Over Harvey Weinstein: ‘Fake As They Come’:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rose-mcgowan-oprah-winfrey-harveyweinstein_n_612f8ad8e4b0f1b9705b6dcb
Hillary Clinton’s pimping for Bill and Epstein need no citation, nor her bribery, nor her treason. In those regards, she’s self-authenticating.
I don’t think DC or congress can do a thing. at all. It comes down to the State and Local laws and that would be up to the Voters and a movement to rid of the perverts. but it won’t be easy because the left wants the pervs (trans) VOTE. I have written many times that the local elections are the Hardest to overcome. Some districts will never Flip and they will CHEAT to stay that way Because Cheating is much easier at the local level.
Am I missing something? Why all the ire against the court? It is the gutless, woke national sorority that is at fault. The girls should just quit- period. Sorry, the world is bing destroyed and the sooner you grasp this the better. Seek out other avenues of association. Stop trying to revivify the desiccated husks of formerly sane institutions. Abandon them and build something new.
The girls can’t quit, they already bought their friends there.
yawn
Yes you are missing something here. You are missing the fact that now men can be women and women can no longer expect safe spaces based on biology because biology has been replaced with feelings and all it takes now to invade females spaces is the feeling a man can be a woman just because.
If the court forced the national sorority to accept women, I would be outraged. The idiots who run the organization chose to allow men. I don’t want the crooked, berobed class acting as thought police and imposing their views. In almost every such outrage it is the institution choosing to allow this nonsense. Send your children to Hillsdale and do not join any institution that pushes this stuff. Give them the Bud Light treatment.
I’m in agreement with E Howard. The correct response is for the young women to walk away from the sorority. Let the national sorority win. When the local house collapses for lack of membership the national organization then will have to step in and confront its behavior. That will be … expensive for them. Good.
Ditto the young women on the Penn swim team. Walk away. Stand at the starting block and if William Thomas is next to you on his block, when the gun sounds simply stand there as he dives into the water. Let him win. He’ll have a win and a record without meaning. The national organization (here, the NCAA and the swim federation) then will have to step in and confront its behavior. That will be … expensive for them. Good.
In each case, the cost to the young women is something they care about — sorority membership or membership on the varsity swim team. The indirects are significant — the friendships and future connections. The threat is clearly there — they could be ostracized from their particular sub-culture (Ivy League, etc.) and society.
So the women have to decide which is more important. So far they’ve been cowed into submission. I’d ask the women to assess the cost more dynamically — refuse to participate, and WHEN YOU WIN, the cost is much less.
Because the other side doesn’t have the spine to stand up to you if you stand up to them. Walk away. Let the swim team fold, let the sorority house stand empty. And at some point the other side will cave. Then you win, and the cost is on THEM, not on you.
It’s not binary, and there’s no absolute assurance that you will win. But just taking it guarantees that you’ll lose. You didn’t join a swim team to lose, and you didn’t join the sorority to be a loser. So stand up.
Agreed, Dr. Steve
Court is or is fearing the Cultural Marxists.
Girls he is there to spy on you not be one of you.
Ah, good old college days…. in bizarro world. 2023. Yeesh.
Sure, the planet is overpopulated. What a way to thin the herd tho.
Guy looks like this is the only way he’ll ever get within 50 yards of a naked female. Loser much? And somehow(!) he is even uglier trying to be a woman. Do guys really want to get it on with such a thing? Is that what he’s hoping for? Some guy will fall in love??? The layers of mental illness are thick and tangled with this one. I don’t think what he’s doing will make anything better. Should get real help, let’s hope so.
He’s not there for guys.
Langford is there to look at college women in various stages of dress, to get a boner, and jack off in his room.
Rinse. Repeat. Every day.
He is a gay ugly man who is creepy, and now he is a fat ugly man pretending to be a woman, who is creepy.
Any woman who voluntarily walks the halls of that building knowing that Jack Off Jake is watching them deserves the creepiness.
GET OUT. ESCAPE. PROTECT YOURSELF.
Would you be in a building late at night wearing a towel with a strange man nearby?
And to think Penn is supposed to be one of the top Medical schools in the Nation or maybe the world. they sure get a lot of foreign students that become DRs plus they have the Best Business schools on the planet with wharton.. SMH
When I went to college sororities had fraternity friends. If something like this happened the “lady” would have tripped down a flight of stairs while still strapped to her bed.
By the way, how many women dress as men and join a fraternity to watch men shower?
Using the law to abuse the law. Using freedom to destroy it. Another example.
V.I. Lenin would be smiling if he was living.
“Federal Court”…. what a wonderful generic (DEI) concept now. Well…. the fems got what they wanted but now find they don’t want what they got.
This case was difficult to understand until I read the NY Post article. It turns out that the local sorority chapter accepted the trans “woman” in response to pressure from the national organization. So it appears that the local chapter actually had the authority to deny acceptance, but caved to the national organization and then wanted the courts to bail them out.
Indeed. They voted gutlessly, as if their votes were virtue signals, just to go along with their peer group, and now they discover their votes had real consequences.
Just like women of all ages do in every blue state and city in the USA.
I wonder how many of these particular women, who are in the ideal position to make the connection between their own voting behavior and their own misery, have been willing to admit it to themselves, even after all this?
Simple solution if one of those girls was my daughter.
“I am no longer supporting you to attend this college as part of this sorority. No monetary support, no tuition support, no car, insurance, or anything else.
The Ms adult can quit bitching and accept the crap world she walked into.
Surely there is a process for the chapter to eject a problematic *cough* member.
Time to give the National Sorority the heave ho
This is how the court’s decision starts:
That says everything you need to know about how insane this court is. The guy is a “transgender MAN” – he’s a guy pretending that he’s a girl. He is not a woman, of any sort.
The court goes on with its deranged idiocy:
There is no need to define “woman”. There is a need not to let people redefine “woman” as anything they like. Words have meaning. And for law, most of all, if meaning is extracted from words then there is nothing left, which seems to be what this idiot court wants.
This is sheer insanity and mind-numbing stupidity on display in our judicial system. Just insanity beyond belief.
Haiku:
A whiff of Old Spice
Jock strap sweaty pits gym socks
Scent of a woman
Looks like somebody needs a blanket party with baseball bats.
College women don’t have the balls for a blanket party. Too much go along to get along, with a hint of mean girl behind the back stabbing.
The left hates sororities and fraternities because they require effort to get into and they promote success by merit.
Now the left has found a tool with which to destroy them.
It is a very narrow ruling, based on the rules of the sorority, not civil rights law. Gorsuch and the liberals may have doomed the nation with the legalization of a mental illness that is extraordinarily dangerous, not just to the afflicted, but to all of society. These transvestites are dangerous individuals.
It won’t be long until the pervert moves on from watching near naked girls and masturbating in his room to more physical efforts toward the women.
Is one physical assault or rape enough or will the pervert molest multiple women before something happens?
Hate to be rush chairman. In a Kool Kool Girls chapter after this.
Wonder what National thinks about that.
I was the VP of my chapter and had the best rush in years. I was not happy with the way the chapter was being viewed and tried to correct it. The resistance to change was immediate and vitriolic.
To add insult to injury, a fuckwit “yes man” member ran against me as VP. GUess who they voted for? The fuckwit.
So, in response to that, I left the fraternity. I still get mail from national, and I just throw it in the trash. Last I heard, my chapter folded. Good riddance.
If I was any of those women, I’d have left the chapter. Period.
Still miss you, Doc. You cantankerous bastard.
IANAL, but it appears Judge Johnson is claiming that any words undefined in a bylaw (or contract?) can be granted any meaning whatsoever by the organization after the fact. Even if the term was defined in the bylaws why wouldn’t the same reasoning apply t the words used within the definition? I thought the legal standard was to use the common definition in use at the time a contract was written.
“It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”
The great idiocy spouted by Bill Clinton … using a word that he claims difficulty in defining, in the objection, itself … without any problem needing to define it – the operative “is”. Because he’s full of s***, as everyone on earth was well aware.
And many lawyers think that this sort of silliness constitutes clever legal maneuvering. It doesn’t. It’s just destructive idiocy. And this BS with “woman” is even worse. It’s difficult to believe that the courts could have gone lower than “what the definition of ‘is’ is” … but they certainly have.
This is why all such systems eventually die. They become farces and parodies of themselves until people finally realize that they no longer serve any useful purpose and are, in fact, only contributing to the destruction of everything they touch. It is inevitable. And those with human language at their foundation are the most susceptible, because language requires a certain honor and integrity among the parties in order to be useful.
Agreeing that one option is for all but the Trans critter to quit and leave the sorority to deal with him [and the expenses of running the house] unless there are enough “woke” female sorority sisters who will stay; but depending on Wyoming criminal law there is possibly something else. If he/she/it is in fact still intact and getting visibly aroused at the sight of the biological female sisters, have this witnessed by two or more sisters and have them file an actual criminal complaint with the city police [campus police being too PC to take the complaint probably] for sexual assault or sexual harassment if such is possible. Have him arrested. What do you think that a Wyoming jury is going to say about the entire concept? And a criminal record of being a sex offender may keep him [and deter others] from repeating the game.
Subotai Bahadur
College women would prefer to secretly stab another in the back a la mean girl, than to actually stand up for anything. My bet is that the sorority deformitory is chock full of leftist women, and only a few are really concerned.
Those few should bolt out the door and let the rest take on the cost of running the Animal House.
The court’s decision appears to be carefully crafted, and I think it is best if courts refrain from reviewing membership decisions. Even the Congress, when they enacted Title IX, carved out an exception for the “membership practices” of fraternities and sororities. So, a college cannot use Title IX to pressure a sorority to accept a man as a member or a transgendered woman as a member.
A bright judge would be able to see this as a housing issue within the membership issue. The women not living in the house have the ability to avoid subjecting themselves to the creeps leering and onanistic behavior. The ones who paid to live there never envisioned the situation. He’s just another coward in black robes ducking rulings his political masters might dislike.
For the lawyers on the sight why isn’t an intelligent decision on the by-laws something like this: (1) the by-laws use the undefined word woman, (2) as commonly understood, and as relied on by the plaintiffs, “woman” means an adult human female who has XX chromosomes. (5) therefore, by unilaterally revising the terms of membership to include biological males the national organization breached its contract with the women living in the sorority house by subjecting them to a creep they couldn’t have foreseen when they paid for their rooms in the sorority house. Damages could be the cost to obtain alternate housing.
“the women living in the sorority house by subjecting them to a creep they couldn’t have foreseen”
A losing argument from the starting gun, as the girls voted him in.
(1) A coerced agreement is no agreement at all.
(2) The by-laws are a written document, so any changes must also be in writing—such as creatively reinventing the meaning of “woman” or “women.”
(3) When my son was living in a frat house, he had a housing agreement. Another written document that the sorority sisters probably had and could claim was effectively revised without their written agreement.
How does some chapter meeting affect the principles of contracts? It shouldn’t. That is, unless a judge with an agenda refuses to go there.
I’m a dinosaur, but in our fraternity we picked the guys that were going to be our brothers, not the national headquarters. Tell them to get bent and that you’re not going to live in the house if they’re going to insist on him being there. And can’t they just blackball him to get him out?
This should have been dealt with as a contracts issue. The terms are governed by the meaning commonly understood by both parties when the contract was made. Any change in meaning is a material alteration requiring a new agreement.
If the sorority is going to change the meaning of important terms in the bylaws that govern the agreement, they had an obligation to inform and obtain consent from the other parties, the members.
This judge is an idiot, or the girls’ attorney(s) did not draft this action correctly. An appeal may be on solid ground, depending on how the Complaint was based in law.
He should have been given the option of displaying his testicles in a jar on the mantel above the fireplace.