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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.

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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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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Women, stupidly destroying themselves


21 posted on 06/21/2023 2:25:06 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Magnum44

Otter: Flounder, I am appointing you pledge representative to the social committee.

Flounder: Gee Otter, thanks. What do I have to do?

Otter: It means you have to drive us to the Food King.

Ah some movies never grow old and even survive the modern touchie-feelies desire to cancel them.


22 posted on 06/21/2023 2:28:03 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tell the hard heads in the national office to pound sand and leave the group.


23 posted on 06/21/2023 2:28:29 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They never learn.


24 posted on 06/21/2023 2:30:16 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Take your silly rule of law and get lost. That nonsense don’t apply to us.”


25 posted on 06/21/2023 2:46:15 PM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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To: lee martell
"The girls should simply disband or leave that Sorority. Stop dealing with someone else’s stacked deck."

Ditto.

26 posted on 06/21/2023 2:47:05 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: fieldmarshaldj

***Flounder fathered a tranny ?***

Wouldn’t put it past him, the bastard killed a horse for Gods sake.


27 posted on 06/21/2023 2:48:28 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (May God reign.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’d sue for my dues back and leave, assuming they pay dues - I have no idea how Greek culture works.


28 posted on 06/21/2023 2:49:13 PM PDT by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: ResponseAbility

There were blanks in that gun.


29 posted on 06/21/2023 2:49:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Nifster
I thought you had to be asked to join a sorority. You can’t just show u and say I’m here

I think you apply during "pledge week" in September, then they pick who they want.

However, "private" institutions often can't discriminate against "protected classes."

30 posted on 06/21/2023 2:50:53 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Olog-hai

AGroucho Marx glasses?!


31 posted on 06/21/2023 2:51:25 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


"do the plaintiffs have a legal right to be in a sorority that excludes transgender women? They do not"


Is it just me, or is this worded wrong?
32 posted on 06/21/2023 2:52:41 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We need the dues...

Laramie is like the kid who wants to be Boulder when he grows up


33 posted on 06/21/2023 3:01:26 PM PDT by bigbob (Q)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey Kappa Kappa Gamma!

34 posted on 06/21/2023 3:02:44 PM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hmmm...a thought occurred to me...how many whites are allowed to join ‘black’ sororities?


35 posted on 06/21/2023 3:03:17 PM PDT by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A blanket party is what that fat fag needs.


36 posted on 06/21/2023 3:03:24 PM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Form a new Kappa Gamma Kappa sorority and invite all girls nationwide to ditch KKG for it.


37 posted on 06/21/2023 3:13:26 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Olog-hai

The Kappa Kappa Gamma girls I knew wouldn’t have the that in even if it was a real she.
She’s have to go the Phi Moos


38 posted on 06/21/2023 3:17:17 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: dfwgator

He still killed the horse.


39 posted on 06/21/2023 3:18:52 PM PDT by ResponseAbility (May God reign.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Sororities can “cut” this person, just like they do to others during the rush process. He/she/it has to go by the same rules as everyone else and if it gets cut, that’s just the way the ball rolls during recruitment week. No one else sues because they got cut. A tranny shouldn’t either. Sickos.


40 posted on 06/21/2023 3:22:06 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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