(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) A federal judge used a leftist language loophole to allow a biological man posing as a woman to continue ogling and victimizing members of a college sorority.
Wyoming US District Court Judge Alan Johnson this week tossed a lawsuit that had been filed by six members of the University of Wyoming’s Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter. The ruling came despite disturbing allegations that the 6’2”, 260-pound trans woman was a “sexual predator” who ogled sorority sisters and became physically aroused in their presence.
The judge ruled those concerns were irrelevant because the sorority’s bylaws don’t define what a woman is. “With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the court will not define a ‘woman’ today,” the judge wrote.
“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,” the court’s ruling ordained.
In what at the time was criticized as an unnecessary case of legalized doxing, the same trans-friendly judged had forced the six female members of the sorority to make their identities public before allowing their case to proceed. The sorority sisters said they feared physical retribution and public canceling for making their concerns known.
Those same concerns were what originally led the sorority sisters to file their lawsuit, which claimed “Kappa Kappa Gamma limits membership to women only,” but last fall “the sorority inducted a man, Terry Smith, as a member.”
Their suit claimed that “No other member of Kappa Kappa Gamma has comparable size or strength” and that Langford is “sexually interested in women,” even having a Tinder profile “through which he seeks to meet women.”
In the filing, one sorority member related a particularly unsettling encounter with the new alleged-sister who “walked down the hall to take a shower, wearing only a towel. She felt an unsettling presence, turned, and saw Mr. Smith [the pseudonym given in the complaint] watching her silently.”
Public backlash to the judge’s ruling was fierce, with one doctor writing, “Self-identification doesn’t circumvent biological reality. Enough of this.”
The self-professed sorority sister allegedly also regularly wore leggings with a visible erection. The lawsuit claimed that Smith was only admitted into the University of Wyoming’s chapter after intense pressure from the national sorority organization.
The judge overruled those concerns with this week’s ruling, allowing the allegedly trans-sister, Artemis Langford, to keep up the pretense.
“It’s very disheartening that when you’re a 6’2″, 260-pound man, you’re treated as the victim,” one sorority sister told Fox News. “We just need to protect women’s spaces.”
Cassie Craven, a lawyer with Longhorn Law representing the sorority sisters, said the case has far-reaching and disturbing implications. “This really isn’t about defining women anymore. It’s about erasing women. Now it appears that being a woman is nothing more than a clever game of semantics,” Craven told Fox News.
“Congrats to all the pronoun freaks. This is what your ideology has done,” wrote Mark Price, comms director for the State Freedom Caucus Network. “University of Wyoming sorority girls will now be forced to share their house with a 6’2 dude who gets erections while watching them change.”
'Artemis' Langford, the trans-identifying male accused of sexually harassing women in a Wyoming sorority, is very active in local politics.
He received a standing ovation from lawmakers in the state House of Representatives in 2020 after being introduced as a page.
The Albany… https://t.co/yEsZhnKfC7 pic.twitter.com/z4ahCeO9Kc— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) August 30, 2023
Mark Pellin is an editor at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/sabrepaw70.
