Court Gives Sorority Women 30-Day Deadline In Lawsuit Over Wyoming Trans Member

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Court Gives Sorority Women 30-Day Deadline In Lawsuit Over Wyoming Trans Member

A Wyoming-based federal judge is giving the women suing their sorority for inducting a Wyoming transgender member 30 days to re-file their lawsuit or give up the case. The women's attorney told Cowboy State Daily they plan to refile the case.

Clair McFarland
May 12, 2025
2 min read


The Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house in Laramie, Wyoming. (Greg Johnson, Cowboy State Daily)

A Wyoming-based federal judge is giving the women suing their sorority for inducting a Wyoming transgender member 30 days to refile their lawsuit or give up the case.
U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson’s deadline issued Friday comes after two years of litigation in Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma.

That’s a case in which six women are suing the sorority, accusing it of violating its own rules and imperiling its membership and future, for allegedly pushing University of Wyoming-based sorority members into inducting transgender student Artemis Langford in fall 2022.

Johnson in August 2023 dismissed the lawsuit, pointing to case law about how private organizations can dictate the terms of their own membership. … “With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today,” wrote Johnson at the time.

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