Judge rejects sorority sisters’ lawsuit blocking trans woman from joining: ‘The court will not define a ‘woman.”

If you can't define what a woman is, OR if you have trouble deciding if a male should be a member of a sorority, you shouldn't be a judge ... period. You're too stupid to be making decisions for anybody else.)

A lawsuit filed by sorority members at the University of Wyoming to block a transgender woman from joining has been dismissed by a judge — despite allegations the student was a “sexual predator” who got physically aroused around them.
Since the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority bylaws do not define what a “woman” is, Wyoming US District Judge Alan Johnson ruled he could not proceed with the lawsuit and dismissed the matter on Friday, according to reports.
“With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the court will not define a ‘woman’ today,” Johnson wrote.
Johnson ruled that a federal court could not interfere with the sorority chapter’s freedom of association by ruling against its vote to induct trans student Artemis Langford last year.
“The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford,” Johnson wrote in his ruling.
“The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman,’ otherwise undefined in the nonprofit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.”
Rachel Berkness, Langford’s attorney, welcomed the court’s ruling.
“The allegations against Ms. Langford should never have made it into a legal filing,” Berkness said in an email to the Associated Press.
“They are nothing more than cruel rumors that mirror exactly the type of rumors used to vilify and dehumanize members of the LGBTQIA+ community for generations. And they are baseless,” Berkness said in an email.
The case at Wyoming’s only four-year public university garnered national attention as ongoing issues over the years involving transgender rights for students in schools and athletics have sparked major debate nationwide.
Six members of the university’s Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority filed the lawsuit in March against the national sorority organization, its national council president and Langford — who joined their chapter in September 2022.
The sorority members were seeking to have a judge void Langford’s Kappa Kappa Gamma membership and award unspecified damages.
Kari Kittrell Poole, the executive director of the sorority, told the Associated Press in May that the lawsuit “contains numerous false allegations” without specifying them.
She added that Kappa Kappa Gamma, which has over 250,000 members in 140 chapters across the United States and Canada, does not discriminate against gender identity.
The lawsuit alleged that members felt uneasy around Langford — identified under the male pseudonym Terry Smith in the suit — with one member allegedly witnessing Langford get physically aroused.
“Mr. Smith has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit claimed. “Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.”
Berkness shared that claims about her client’s behavior and being labeled a “sexual predator” were nothing more than a “drunken rumor” following the suit’s dismissal.
The six sorority members told Megyn Kelly on her podcast in May that they “live in constant fear in our home” with Langford present and that the trans student would stare at women without talking for hours.
“It is seriously an only-female space. It is so different than living in the dorms, for instance, where men and women can commingle on the floors. That is not the case in a sorority house. We share just a couple of main bathrooms on the upstairs floor,” a member, not identified by name, told Kelly.
Cassie Craven, an attorney representing the sorority sisters, said her clients disagree with the ruling — and, more importantly, that the sorority chapter lacks a proper definition of who should be classified as a woman.
“Women have a biological reality that deserves to be protected and recognized, and we will continue to fight for that right just as women suffragists for decades have been told that their bodies, opinions, and safety doesn’t matter,” Craven wrote in an email to the outlet.
It’s unclear if Kappa Kappa Gamma plans on changing its bylaws to adequately define what a woman is for potential issues in the future.

  

https://nypost.com/2023/08/29/judge-rejects-sorority-sisters-lawsuit-blocking-trans-woman-artemis-langford-from-joining/

 ‘Irrelevant Diatribe’: Sorority Girls Fire Back after Male ‘Sister’ Accuses Them of Bullying in Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit.
(If you have any problems seeing what wrong here, you need to pull your head out of your ass so you can see clearly.)

Attorneys representing the six female students who sued their sorority for admitting a male into their sisterhood blasted his written demand that the court throw out their lawsuit Friday as an “irrelevant diatribe” filled with “untruthful, misleading attacks.”
In March, six female University of Wyoming students sued KKG and its president Mary Pat Rooney, arguing that their chapter’s decision to admit a man, Artemis Langford, violated the national organization’s corporate charter. KKG responded on June 21 by calling the claims “baseless” and the litigation “frivolous” in a motion to dismiss.
Langford then filed a memo, obtained by National Review, in support of the motion, alleging that the sorority members intended to “bully” him rather than seek judicial relief. His lawyers argued that he should not have also been named as a defendant in the suit and that the complaint contained excessive factual details, failing to be “simple, concise, and direct” as required by Rule 8 of Federal Civil Procedure.
For example, Langford’s lawyer objected to references to his large physical size, which his lawyer called “insulting jabs,” in the complaint. But those details were key to highlight that Langford’s new gender identity did not negate his overwhelmingly masculine stature, which many of the plaintiffs found intimidating, they wrote in the response.
“Allegations about Langford’s size are not a comment on his physical fitness,” the response reads. “These facts, in part, demonstrate the extent to which Langford’s claim of womanhood obscures the actual interactions taking place . . . Biological males like Langford do not become smaller or weaker just because they claim to be a woman. Langford is an individual with physical size unusual for men and unheard of for women.”
Langford is 6’2” and 260 pounds, according to the complaint. Fewer than 1 percent of women in the U.S. were 6’2” or taller from 2007 to 2008, according to Census Bureau data from that time cited in the response. Only 6 percent of all men were. Only about 5 percent of men weighed more than 260 pounds.
“Plaintiffs are living the reality of Langford’s biological, sex-based differences,” the response added. “When a 6’2” person who weighs 260 pounds and has benefited from male puberty sits in a sorority dining room—staring and scowling at the young women who filed a complaint with this Court—that moment is not just a disagreement among ‘us’ girls. That angry glare is a threat, a threat made possible by that man’s superior size and strength.”
The plaintiffs reiterated in their response that Langford was attached to the lawsuit because the litigation directly involves him — a biological male and member of Kappa Kappa Gamma whose induction they assert violates KKG’s bylaws. Langford’s behavior, since becoming a member and gaining access to the formerly single-sex home where they live, has also harmed them, the response said.
When it was filed in March, the complaint stated that Langford had not yet taken steps to transition. He still carried a driver’s license that identified him as a male, wore women’s clothing only occasionally, and refrained from treatments such as hormone therapy, feminization surgery, and laser hair removal.
Langford was also sexually interested in women, the plaintiffs alleged, using Tinder to meet them. Witnesses cited in the complaint said they sometimes saw Langford sitting alone in private areas of the sorority house, where he could peer at the women walking by, with a visible erection. A pillow sometimes sat on Langford’s lap, the witnesses said.
“There definitely have been awkward interactions and creepy, weird moments, but that proves why we’re doing this and speaking out, for other girls with the same situation where a biological man is in a sorority house or locker room with women,” Hannah Holtmeier, one of the plaintiffs, previously told National Review.
The latest response from the sorority members notes that some of them have been sexually assaulted in their past.
“They are suffering real physical and emotional damages as a result of Langford’s terror in their home, the monetary damage of which is extensive special damages far above the jurisdictional threshold required in a case of this nature,” it reads. “Some women can’t go to their home at all. Some witnesses have experienced such adverse health reactions that they dropped the sorority altogether. Some moved away to be a part of another college. Langford is not the victim.”

If you have any problems picking out the dude in this picture, you should have your testosterone level checked.

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