A group of sorority sisters at the University of Wyoming have said they are terrified that a trans woman will be allowed to move into their house next term.
The seven Kappa Kappa Gamma girls, who filed a lawsuit against the college, claim Artemis Langford, 21, has been visibly aroused while being in their company.
According to The Mail Online:
Langford, who is 6’2′ and weighs 260lbs, is not currently living in the property but has spent a ‘significant’ amount of time there alongside 50 other young women and has been granted permission to move into the Sorority House from September.
The women who already live there are now speaking out and said the move leaves them feeling ‘vulnerable’ and ‘uncomfortable’.
‘It is really uncomfortable. Some of the girls have been sexually assaulted or sexually harassed. Some girls live in constant fear in our home,’ one of the sisters, Hannah, told Megyn Kelly on her podcast on Monday.
‘Men are never allowed on the second floor of our house apart from moving in and moving out.
‘So it is an only-female space and not like living in the dorms. We share just a couple of main bathrooms but it is supposed to be safe space for us to rest our head at night.’
One of the sisters is now demanding the management of the Sorority ensure that the home is preserved as an ‘female only’ safe space.
In the lawsuit, obtained by Cowboy StateDaily, it is claimed Langford would stare at the girls in a common-area for hours without talking.
All of the women are calling for a judge to declare Langford sorority membership as void and to award unspecified damages according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit states: ‘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 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 behavior generally associated with women.’
Prior to the vote on Langford’s admittance to the sorority, several members of the sisterhood claim that the president and membership chair of the Chapter simply dismissed their concerns.
‘It’s a weird gut wrenching feeling that every time I leave my room I’ll walk past him in the hall in whatever setting that may be. And it’s never a pleasant encounter and that’s the scary part. This just goes to show that we need women’s spaces for that reason. Our house is our home,’ Jaylyn said to Kelly on the podcast.
‘All of the bathrooms are shared spaces and there are no private changing areas or locks. It’s very open and vulnerable.’
The women say they understand that a transwoman such as 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 explained to Kelly. ‘They have decided that the individual does not need to live in the house but this individual has gotten preferential treatment.
‘He [Langford] still come to the house and engages in dinners and sits in chairs to watch the girls.’
The eight sisters from KKG could all be seen nodding in agreement.
‘We lost quite a few members as a result of this. I refuse to subvert my rights as a women to cater towards the comfort of a man. Everyone needs to be treated with dignity and request but there’s a line and it has been crossed,’ Cassie explained.
‘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.’
The lawsuit 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.’
They also accused him of taking photos of them at a slumber party and to have made inappropriate comments to them.
