at the University of Wyoming, ruling that he could not override how the private, voluntary organization defined a woman and order that she not belong., six members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter challenged Artemis Langford's admission by casting doubt on whether sorority rules allowed a transgender woman. Wyoming U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson, in his ruling, found that sorority bylaws don't define who's a woman.
With no definition of a woman in sorority bylaws, Johnson ruled that he could not impose the six sisters' definition of a woman in place of the sorority's more expansive definition provided in court. "The allegations against Ms. Langford should never have made it into a legal filing. 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," Berkness said in an email.