Federal court dismisses appeal of lawsuit contesting transgender woman in Wyoming sorority

FILE - Cheryl Tuck-Smith, a long-time member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, speaks in support of the six plaintiffs in a case against the sorority during a news conference outside the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, May 14, 2024, in Denver. A federal appeals court on Wednesday, June 12 dismissed a lawsuit challenging a transgender woman’s acceptance into a sorority at the University of Wyoming.

The lawsuit could not be appealed because a lower court judge in Wyoming left open the possibility of refiling it in his court, the three-judge U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver determined. The case involving Artemis Langford, a transgender woman admitted into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter in Laramie, drew widespread attention as transgender peopleThe sorority argued it had wide leeway to interpret its own bylaws, including defining who is a woman, but six sorority sisters argued in a lawsuit for a narrower interpretation.The appellate judges sided with sorority attorneys who argued the case was not ready for the appeals court.

The arguments hearing drew a small demonstration outside a federal courthouse in Denver with women holding signs that read “Save Sisterhood” and “Women have the right to women’s only spaces.”

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