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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/appeal-judges-voice-doubts-about-ruling- on-transgender-woman-s-admission-into-wyoming-sorority/ar-BB1mldE3
DENVER (AP) � Federal appellate court judges expressed doubt Tuesday about whether they could rule on a transgender woman's admission into a
University of Wyoming sorority or if a lower court should continue to hear
the case.
The admission of Artemis Langford into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
prompted a lawsuit from six other sorority members last year. After
hearing from both sides in the case, the three-judge U.S. 10th Circuit
Court of Appeals took the arguments under advisement without ruling.
The case at Wyoming�s only four-year public university has drawn
widespread attention as transgender people fight for more acceptance in schools, athletics, workplaces and elsewhere, while others push back.
In their lawsuit, the six current and former members of the Kappa Kappa
Gamma sorority chapter in Laramie, Wyoming, challenge Langford�s admission
by casting doubt on whether sorority rules allowed a transgender woman.
An attorney for the sorority sisters told the judges Tuesday the national sorority council was unfair to sorority members by changing who could
belong. However, the bulk of the judges' questions and remarks to
attorneys focused on whether the case was even ripe for appeal.
Last summer, U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson in Cheyenne dismissed the
case without prejudice in a ruling that suggested the lawsuit could be
refiled in his court. That alone should forestall appeal, attorneys for
the Ohio-based sorority argue in court documents.
Appellate Judge Carolyn McHugh expressed openness to that argument.
�It seems to me it's not final,� McHugh told the sorority sisters'
attorney, May Mailman, at the outset of Tuesday's oral arguments.
Mailman told the judges the case was sufficiently resolved in district
court to allow appeal. But appellate Judge Richard Federico voiced similar doubts.
�The district court is offering you a lifeline,� he told Mailman.
Mailman argued that by allowing transgender women into the chapter at the university, the national sorority council and president violated their obligation to sorority members to faithfully follow sorority bylaws. State
law in Ohio, however, gives the volunteer board for the private, Ohio-
based organization wide leeway to define terms in those bylaws, including
who's a woman, argued Kappa Kappa Gamma attorney Natalie McLaughlin.
A court may get involved only if such an interpretation is unreasonable or arbitrary but that wasn't the case, McLaughlin added.
The arguments drew a handful of demonstrators outside the federal
courthouse holding signs that read �Save Sisterhood� and �Women have the
right to women's only spaces.�
�We shouldn't have to say 'Here's why I need my women's space.' Women's
spaces should be protected, period,� Mailman said at a news conference
after the arguments.
The argument that a court should be able to tell a private organization
how to define a woman flies in the face of conservative skepticism about
big government, the Wyoming LGBTQ+ advocacy group Wyoming Equality said in
a statement.
�They are arguing against the right of organizations to determine their
own membership,� Director Sara Burlingame said. �I am optimistic that the
10th Circuit will agree with Judge Johnson.�
The sorority sisters' lawsuit against Kappa Kappa Gamma and its president,
Mary Pat Rooney, claimed Langford made them feel uncomfortable in the
sorority house. Langford has been dropped from the lawsuit on appeal.
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