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The University of Wyoming’s Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by former and current sorority groups for allowing a biological male to join their female space.
The lawsuit was originally filed by seven anonymous members in March over the admission of a trans woman, 21-year-old Artemis Langford, into the sorority last year. According to reports, the women claimed that Langford had “voyeuristically watched them while they were in intimate situations, having a visible erection at least once.”
On Tuesday, however, the school’s sorority fought back the “frivolous” lawsuit and defended the student’s admission to join.
“The central issue in this case is simple: Do the plaintiffs have a legal right to be part of a dispute that excludes transgender women? They don’t,” the motion said.
Sorority members claimed that a transgender member would watch them in intimate moments. (Getty)
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The sorority also suggested, according to the New York Post, that the women were motivated by political ends, specifically their use of the term “woman.”
“Plaintiffs request that the Court join this contentious political debate and declare that a private organization can only interpret the term ‘woman’ using the plaintiffs’ exclusive definition of biologically born women,” the motion said.
It continued: “Kappa defines its membership in its position statement adopted in 2015 as individuals who identify as female… Plaintiffs cannot identify any statute, standing rule or policy prohibiting Kappa from taking this position, and the term undoubtedly stands open to multiple interpretations.”
Responding to the women’s complaints, the disputation also added that they could always resign from the organization if “a position of containment is too offensive to their personal values”.
Kappa Kappa Gamma insisted that the transgender member did not violate the sorority’s policies. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File)
A lawyer for Langford wrote a separate filing in support of the motion to dismiss on the same day, alleging that the women threw “inhuman mud” in the lawsuit “to bully Ms. Langford on the national scene.”
“This alone deserves dismissal,” the request read.
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Despite requests to remain anonymous, a U.S. District Court judge ordered the women to reveal their names in order to continue the lawsuit. Six of the seven women complied, revealing their names as Jaylyn Westenbroek, Hannah Holtmeier, Allison Coghan, Grace Choate, Madeline Ramar and Megan Kosar.
Three of these women appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” in May to discuss their commitment to the cause.
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority members appear on Fox News (Fox News/Ingraham Angle)
(W)e’s fighting for the importance of women’s spaces and what it really means to be a woman. We were promised from the beginning that we would have a sisterhood, meaning women only, and our national sorority has failed us,” said Jaylyn.
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When Langford was originally accepted into the sorority, reports noted that Kappa Kappa Gamma was “the first sorority in University of Wyoming history to accept an open-transgender student into their ranks.”
Lindsay Kornick is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to [email protected] and on Twitter: @lmkornick.
