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Rules allow transgender woman at Wyoming chapter, and a court can’t interfere, sorority says
The Associated Press ^ | June 21, 2023 | By MEAD GRUVER

Posted on 06/21/2023 1:45:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A national sorority has defended allowing a transgender woman into its University of Wyoming chapter, saying in a new court motion that the chapter followed sorority rules despite a lawsuit from seven women in the organization who argued the opposite.

The Kappa Kappa Gamma motion to dismiss, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne, is the sorority’s first substantive response to the lawsuit, other than a March statement by its executive director, Kari Kittrell Poole, that the complaint contains “numerous false allegations.”

“The central issue in this case is simple: do the plaintiffs have a legal right to be in a sorority that excludes transgender women? They do not,” the motion to dismiss reads.

The sorority sisters opposed to Langford’s induction could presumably change the policy if most sorority members shared their view, or they could resign if “a position of inclusion is too offensive to their personal values,” the sorority’s motion to dismiss says.

“What they cannot do is have this court define their membership for them,” the motion asserts, adding that “private organizations have a right to interpret their own governing documents.”

Even if they didn’t, the motion to dismiss says, the lawsuit fails to show how the sorority violated or unreasonably interpreted Kappa Kappa Gamma bylaws.

The sorority sisters’ lawsuit asks U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson to declare Langford’s sorority membership void and to award unspecified damages.

The lawsuit claims Langford’s presence in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house made some sorority members uncomfortable. Langford would sit on a couch for hours while “staring at them without talking,” the lawsuit alleges.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: artemislangford; chat; cheyenne; culturewar; democrats; education; homosexualagenda; kappakappagamma; langford; perverts; sorority; trans; transgender; universityofwyoming
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1 posted on 06/21/2023 1:45:43 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The girls should simply disband or leave that Sorority.
Stop dealing with someone else’s stacked deck.


2 posted on 06/21/2023 1:48:28 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought you had to be asked to join a sorority. You can’t just show u and say I’m here


3 posted on 06/21/2023 1:49:37 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How much is the terrorist being paid to terrorize the sorority? Always follow the money, and they’re on someone’s payroll. We learned about this game in the 1960’s, and some of us are still around to remember, as well as care.


4 posted on 06/21/2023 1:51:25 PM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

if there’s a schlong, move along...


5 posted on 06/21/2023 1:52:44 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: lee martell

Yep...let the sorority do what it wants...there are plenty of other sororities...or you can make your own with your own sorority by-laws.

Vote with your feet...


6 posted on 06/21/2023 1:53:56 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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I know it cannot be unseen, but . . .


7 posted on 06/21/2023 1:54:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Parents should not allow their daughters to join a sorority, especially if it has trannies.


8 posted on 06/21/2023 1:59:21 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
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To: Nifster
Unless you're a legacy...


9 posted on 06/21/2023 2:00:15 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Nifster

There’s more to this story that the article isn’t telling.


10 posted on 06/21/2023 2:00:33 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: Olog-hai

Flounder fathered a tranny ?


11 posted on 06/21/2023 2:02:11 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...they could resign if “a position of inclusion is too offensive to their personal values,”


The sorority is saying in effect, better for us to have one pretend woman rather than seven real women. Real women need to take note.


12 posted on 06/21/2023 2:02:31 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Should let him pledge then blackball him.


13 posted on 06/21/2023 2:03:34 PM PDT by AU72
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To: lee martell

Kappa Gams have accepted trannies into their sororities for the past couple of years. Looks like they are trying to kill the panhellenic system. Leftists have been trying to do that for years.


14 posted on 06/21/2023 2:06:32 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This sounds like an idea for a sitcom. Maybe have Tom Hanks dress up as a girl, and then hilarity ensues, as he pretends to be one of the girls at this sorority.


15 posted on 06/21/2023 2:07:26 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Magnum44

Otter : Oh, well, usually. Unless the pledge in question turns out to be a real closet-case.

Otter , Boon : Like Fred.


16 posted on 06/21/2023 2:09:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In one of these cases, the black robed morons will have to rule that XX (Female) and XY (male) are the same which they most certainly are not. That is when the whole lie collapses.
I don’t care how much our enemys cry the X – Y sex-determination system is poured in concrete.
And yes, of course the women (XX chromosomeS) should disband and ask for membership in a sane National structure.


17 posted on 06/21/2023 2:11:10 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Olog-hai

That is just a man pretending to be a woman.


18 posted on 06/21/2023 2:12:54 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You can always have an initiation ceremony where any appendage must be removed during the ceremony. It can be handed back to him after the initiation.


19 posted on 06/21/2023 2:22:16 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you still have the parts you were born with you are not a transgender you are a transvestite


20 posted on 06/21/2023 2:23:35 PM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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