A judge has dismissed a lawsuit contesting a transgender woman’s admission into a sorority at the University of Wyoming.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit contesting a transgender woman’s admission into a sorority 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.

In the lawsuit, 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.

The case at Wyoming’s only four-year public university drew widespread attention as transgender people fight for more acceptance in schools, athletics, workplaces and elsewhere, while others push back.

  • Maturin
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    1 year ago

    You called trans people a term that has not been generally used for a good 25 years. You can just call them trans or transgender people and not trans***uals. I don’t know many leftists who regularly defend the use of ableist and anti-LGBT slurs and you really need to drop them if you want people to treat you like you aren’t a bigot trying to sow discord in spaces that you see as too left. Don’t forget, the pictures of the Nazi book burnings you may have seen are most likely them burning the archives of the largest gender clinic in the world at the time (most academic research regarding trans people was literally destroyed by the literal Nazis) and before they began summarily killing Jews, the Nazis murdered the mentally handicapped. So no, not everyone who is “to the right of Bernie Sanders” is a Nazi. But when you are like “I think we should entertain even the wildest, most hypothetical and propaganda-based fears regarding trans people and deny them the right to participate in society until we have “had enough time” to discuss them and also mentally handicap people and other people I disagree with too are slur” then forgive the rest of us for noticing the classic Nazi pattern. Especially when the rest of us have already read this history once. When they say “never again” they mean people like me telling people like you to quit regurgitating the Nazi line, whether you mean to or not. Again hopefully you didn’t mean to and hopefully this can be a wakeup call, but you need to take a breath and realize that you aren’t helping anyone other than those on the extreme right with this line of argument.