{"id":14486,"date":"2023-06-26T03:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14486"},"modified":"2023-06-26T03:23:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T08:23:15","slug":"university-of-wyoming-sorority-hits-back-at-members-who-sued-over-trans-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=14486","title":{"rendered":"University of Wyoming sorority hits back at members who sued over trans sister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A University of Wyoming sorority has hit back at members\u00a0who complained about a trans woman being accepted into their local chapter\u00a0\u2014 insisting the term \u201cwoman\u201d is \u201cunquestionably open to many interpretations.\u201d<br>Seven sorority sisters from the Kappa Kappa Gamma sued the sorority in March, saying that the chapter violated its own rules by admitting Artemis Langford last year.<br>Six of the women then refiled the lawsuit in May after a judge twice barred them from suing anonymously.<br>The lawsuit claimed Langford\u2019s presence in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house made some sorority members uncomfortable.<br>It alleged that the trans pledge would sit on a couch for hours while \u201cstaring at them without talking.\u201d<br>On Tuesday, Kappa Kappa Gamma\u00a0filed a motion\u00a0to dismiss the suit, claiming that it is a \u201cfrivolous\u201d attempt to kick Langford out for \u201ctheir own political purposes.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<br>The motion also suggested the complaining members resign from the sorority if its \u201cposition of inclusion\u201d is \u201ctoo offensive\u201d for them.<br>\u201cPlaintiffs request the Court to insert itself into this controversial political debate and declare that a private organization can only interpret the term \u2018woman\u2019 using Plaintiffs\u2019 exclusionary definition of biologically born females,\u201d the motion, obtained by The Post, reads.<br>\u201cKappa defines its membership in its position\u00a0statement adopted in 2015 as individuals who identify as women,\u201d it continues.<br>\u201cPlaintiffs cannot\u00a0 identify any bylaw, standing rule, or policy that prohibits Kappa from taking this position, and the\u00a0term is unquestionably open to multiple interpretations.\u201d<br>The sorority\u2019s membership policy also mirrors those of the 25 other sororities in the National Panhellenic Conference, the umbrella organization for sororities in the US and Canada, according to the filing.<br>n a separate filing Tuesday in support of the sorority\u2019s motion to dismiss the case, an attorney for Langford wrote that the lawsuit also fails to mention any wrongdoing or seek relief from Langford.<br>The Kappa Kappa Gamma members suing are flinging \u201cdehumanizing mud\u201d in order to \u201cbully Ms. Langford on the national stage,\u201d the attorney alleged in the filing.<br>\u201cThis, alone, merits dismissal,\u201d the filing states. according to Langford\u2019s filing.<br><a 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