Since last year, Townhall has reported how a sorority at the University of Wyoming made headlines for allowing a biological male who believes that he is a “transgender woman” to join. Predictably, there were women inside and outside the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority who pushed back against this decision.
The story gained national attention as it was reported that seven past and present members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority filed a lawsuit over the “transgender” member. Some current members even appeared in an interview with Megyn Kelly where they explained how they live in “constant fear” of the male, Artemis Langford.
Megyn Kelly spoke with the brave women filing a lawsuit against their own sorority for admitting a male on the basis of his "gender identity."
— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) May 16, 2023
Artemis Langford, who @ReduxxMag revealed as a 6'2" man named Dallin, has been watching the young women undress with a visible erection.… https://t.co/uhoBXfMRXN pic.twitter.com/6faiAwkEYT
The biological man living in a Sorority House was a danger to the women & exposed his penis, a lawsuit against the University of Wyoming states:
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) March 30, 2023
The man was “sexually interested in women,” the lawsuit alleges, adding that he had a profile on Tinder “through which he seeks to… pic.twitter.com/EyDj7FtJAJ
Now, several alumnae are suing their sorority for abandoning its core mission by allowing a man to join. Two of the women involved, Cheryl Tuck-Smith and Patsy Levang, are among the six plaintiffs. Tuck-Smith and Levang had their memberships terminated recently for opposing Langford’s involvement in the sorority, which Townhall covered.
The lawsuit points out that the sorority was derived to give women a sense of belonging at university, as men outnumbered women on campus for years (via the Independent Women’s Forum):
KKG was formed at a time when women were pushing social boundaries to achieve equality.1 In 1871, for instance, men outnumbered women by nearly five to one on college campuses, and many colleges did not permit women to enroll at all.2 Those female students who were able to attend college were unable to participate in extracurricular activities and were often segregated from male students in the classroom.
KKG’s founders sought to create an environment that offered female students the same opportunities that were available to male students. They formed KKG as a single-sex organization, conferring membership to women only.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that KKG did not follow its own bylaws, including by redefining “woman” without going through the proper channels to do so. By doing this, Langford’s membership got through. And, the lawsuit alleges that Tuck-Smith and Levang’s terminations from the organization did not come close to meeting the grounds for termination.
“Kappa Kappa Gamma has successfully promoted women and high standards for 150 years. It is incomprehensible that current leadership would discard that success by prioritizing men over women. I have learned through decades of experience how important it is to preserve and protect safe and secure places for women, which allow us to develop skills in leadership, encourage community involvement, and maintain lifetime bonds. Kappa must remain true to its existing mission, to support and promote women,” Tuck-Smith said in a statement.
“As a prior foundation President of Kappa Kappa Gamma, I felt obligated to stand up for the young women in Wyoming. The current leadership in Kappa has deliberately engaged in a campaign to undermine the Bylaws of Kappa which harms not only these young women, but the entire organization. I’m not surprised that they also disregarded the value of lifetime membership and my 56 years of dedication by sending me a removal letter,” Levang said in a statement.
IWF noted that Kappa’s Fraternity Council “deceptively” took steps to broaden its membership to men who identify as women. There was no discussion or debate on the issue (via IWF):
All the while, Kappa leadership sought donations from alumnae based on representations that Kappa had not altered its mission and continued to promote sisterhood and a woman-only environment.
Kappa leadership then retaliated against Ms. Levang and Ms. Tuck-Smith who exposed these improper actions by removing them from membership and falsely accusing them of injuring Kappa and violating “human dignity.”
Margo Knorr, Levang’s daughter and leader of IWF’s North Dakota Chapter, added, “It's hurtful that Kappa would oust Patsy and Cheryl in retaliation for supporting our sisters in Wyoming. At some point, to stand up for ourselves and for our beloved sorority, we need legal intervention. Women still have the right to say ‘no’ to any male being admitted into their sorority and uphold their organizational Bylaws in doing so.”
