Sorority members sue school after peeping trans sister allowed in ‘safe space’

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Members of a University of Wyoming sorority said they feel “vulnerable” with a transgender woman being allowed to move into their house next term.

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Seven Kappa Kappa Gamma members filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming Artemis Langford has been visibly aroused while in their company.

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The 21-year-old member, who is 6-foot-2 and weighs 260 pounds, is not yet living in the house, but spends a “significant” amount of time there along with 50 other young women.

The university granted Langford permission to move into the house in September, something the women said leaves them feeling vulnerable.

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“It is really uncomfortable,” one of the young women, Hannah, told Megyn Kelly on her podcast on Monday.

“Some of the girls have been sexually assaulted or sexually harassed. Some girls live in constant fear in our home. Men are never allowed on the second floor of our house apart from moving in and moving out.”

Hannah explained that the domain is an “only-female space” and is meant to be a “safe space for us to rest our head at night.”

The women said they understand that a trans woman like Langford also needs to be protected and have their own safe space — but moving into their home is not the answer.

“There has been an exemption granted for his safety, but not for us,” Ellie told Kelly. “They have decided that the individual does not need to live in the house, but this individual has gotten preferential treatment. (Langford) still comes to the house and engages in dinners and sits in chairs to watch the girls.”

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The women’s lawsuit claims Langford would stare at the girls in a common area for hours without talking.

“An adult human male does not become a woman just because he tells others that he has a female ‘gender identity’ and behaves in what he believes to be a stereotypically female manner,” the lawsuit states.

“The Fraternity Council has betrayed the central purpose and mission of Kappa Kappa Gamma by conflating the experience of being a woman with the experience of men engaging in behaviour generally associated with women.”

The suit also alleged that Langford “has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings. Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.”

The women are asking for unspecified damages and that Langford’s sorority membership be nullified.

“We lost quite a few members as a result of this,” member Cassie said. “I refuse to subvert my rights as a woman to cater towards the comfort of a man. Everyone needs to be treated with dignity … but there’s a line and it has been crossed.

“We can’t allow woke culture to be the arbiter of what sisterhood is. It’s a shared experience. It’s growth and development. This experience is not doing this individual any justice whatsoever.”