Yesterday, MSNBC news anchor Yasmin Vossoughian effusively praised Artemis Langford, the first ever transgender-identifying man to join a sorority, who is accused of engaging in threatening and disturbing behavior by six of his sorority sisters in the Kappa Kappa Gamma’s University of Wyoming chapter.
“It takes a very brave and unique person to do this — to be a first in a situation like this, and then to continue on,” said Vossoughian, praising the man accused of sexual harassment.
Artemis Langford, a trans woman whose sorority admission was contested by fellow members, speaks out after a judge dismissed the lawsuit:
“Even if there’s one person out there who feels that their identity is being attacked… it’s OK to be who they are.” https://t.co/rXELtmn53p pic.twitter.com/bcHMH8hIlw
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 5, 2023
The interview comes on the heels of a ruling by Judge Alan B. Johnson of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, which permitted Langford to live in the Wyoming chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house this school year. Johnson’s decision dismissed a lawsuit brought forth by the six aforementioned sorority sisters, who alleged that in admitting Langford, Kappa Kappa Gamma did not follow its bylaws and breached its housing contract, among other things.
Johnson made his decision in part because the Kappa Kappa Gamma bylaws do not “expansively” define a woman. The sorority’s recently updated bylaws read that a woman is “defined as an individual who consistently lives and self-identifies as a woman.”
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