Judge Rules U Wyoming Sorority May Allow Biological Men to Join
“In short, we are required to leave Kappa alone”
This case became national news last year because one of the male members was accused of gawking at the female members of the group.
The College Fix reports:
Judge rules U. Wyoming sorority may allow men claiming to be women to join
For the second time, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by members of the University of Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter challenging the admission of a male student into their sorority.
The lawsuit, filed in 2023 and later amended, involves the acceptance of Artemis Langford, a man who identifies as a woman, as a member of the all-female sorority in 2022. It alleges Kappa Kappa Gamma violated its own bylaws, which say members must be women.
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson ruled that the sorority is a private organization that can admit whomever it chooses, WyoFile reports.
“In short, we are required to leave Kappa alone,” Johnson wrote.
The sorority and its leaders have “published and distributed multiple texts clarifying” its definition of the word woman “to include individuals who identify as women,” according to Johnson’s ruling.
Instead of pursuing their lawsuit further, the judge suggested the sorority members could “advocate for a new amendment to the Bylaws, defining the word ‘woman’ as they wish, which would restrain Kappa from choosing between various reasonable definitions of the term.”
“If as many Kappa members are upset about the admission of transgender women members as Plaintiffs claim, this internal remedy should be more than sufficient to achieve their aims,” he wrote.
Johnson’s ruling came in response to an amended complaint, according to WyoFile:
Arguing that the government cannot interfere with how a private, voluntary organization determines its members, Johnson dismissed the case in August 2023. Plaintiffs then attempted to appeal the decision, but the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver rejected the case in June 2024, kicking it back down to the lower court on the grounds Johnson’s ruling did not amount to a final order. As a result, the appeals panel did not have jurisdiction over the matter.
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why only trans???
how about men that ident as men??
let them in
It’s a private sorority. They can let anyone they want join and if people don’t like it they can go elsewhere. Those girls were rightfully angry that guy was forced on them but their reaction should not have been to sue. They should have quit. End of story