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.
“It’s a weird feeling just to know that I could run into him anytime … full access to the house. But this just goes to show like we need women’s spaces for that reason,” she continued…“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.“Mr. Smith has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit says.
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 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.
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.