On Friday, a Wyoming judge dismissed a lawsuit that was filed by a group of University of Wyoming sorority sisters who wanted to block a transgender woman, aka a man, from his membership in their sorority chapter. The students insisted the male was a “sexual predator,” but the judge couldn’t have cared less.
Seven members of the university’s Kappa Kappa Gamma filed the lawsuit against the national sorority organization, its national council president and the male to female transitioner, Artemis Langford. The suit urged the judge to void Langford’s membership and award “unspecified damages,” as the New York Post indicated.
According to the suit, the members felt uneasy around Langford, with one even witnessing him get physically aroused around the other members.
“Mr. Smith has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit claimed, according to New York Post. “Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.”
In May, the girls told Megyn Kelly on “The Megyn Kelly Show” that they “live in constant fear in our home” with Langford present, insisting, “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.”
The thing was, the suit wasn’t even about respecting people’s pronouns or gender identity. It instead was about their comfortability and safety in their own home.
Unfortunately, however, taking a stance for so-called social justice, Judge Alan Johnson tossed the suit.
“The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford,” he wrote in his ruling, insisting that Langford was given membership already and that wouldn’t change based on other members’ discontentment. “With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the court will not define a ‘woman’ today.” Yeah because apparently the word “woman” is up for interpretation.
To make matters worse, Langford’s attorney Rachel Berkness “dismissed the allegation that her client, a 6-foot-2, 260-pound trans student, was a ‘sexual predator.’” Uh…the rest of the crew is like 120 pounds soaking wet but OK.
“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,” she said in an email to the Associated press, New York Post reported, later calling it a “drunken rumor.”
It really is a shame that people who have such a warped perception of reality, and who identify with such delusions, are the ones who are favored and placed above other people who have actual and legitimate concerns.
Cassie Craven who represented the plaintiffs told CNN the following about the decision:
The Court’s opinion reflects an idea that the Plaintiffs cannot agree with. Women’s rights do mean something. 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.
Prayers go out to the girls who have to live in fear of their safety from threats against men parading around as “ladies.”