Judge dismisses lawsuit by sorority sisters who sought to block a transgender woman from joining

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Judge dismisses lawsuit by sorority sisters who sought to block a transgender woman from joining - Lemmy.world

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit contesting a transgender woman’s admission into a sorority at the University of Wyoming, ruling that he could not override how the private, voluntary organization defined a woman and order that she not belong. In the lawsuit, six members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter challenged Artemis Langford’s admission by casting doubt on whether sorority rules allowed a transgender woman. Wyoming U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson, in his ruling, found that sorority bylaws don’t define who’s a woman. The case at Wyoming’s only four-year public university drew widespread attention as transgender people fight for more acceptance in schools, athletics, workplaces and elsewhere, while others push back.

This is all just absolutely wild to me because I went to an all-women’s college and we had no issues accepting trans women (there was a trans woman there when I was a student and it was honestly no big thing for anyone), and that was quite a while ago (I’m so old lol). But NOW it’s a damn issue? I feel like we’ve regressed so much and it’s painful.
Were they living in your house?

Not in my dorm, no. But she was living on campus in a dorm and no one seemed to give the smallest of fucks at the time. I wouldn’t have cared in the slightest had she been living in my dorm.

Oh and.

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TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.

Women with traumatic pasts can be afraid of they want. Just look at what happens in prisons when a transsexual mtf goes into female population and ends up having a bunch of sex or even raping other inmates. It’s not like it’s completely out of the realm of possibility.
Can you cite an example of this ever happening?
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Women in prison have a lot more to fear from guards than trans women prisoners. If you’re really so worried about sexual assault of women in prisons, that’s where your efforts should actually be focused.
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Why add any more risks? Just because one thing is a high risk doesn’t mean another thing can’t also be a risk.

Look at you, completely ignoring the real dangers to women to focus on a minuscule one.

This is just your excuse to hate on trans folks. You don’t really give the first flying fuck about women. As a woman: leave us out of it. We don’t need your kind of “defense.”

Just because you don’t like what other women believe doesn’t mean they can’t believe it.

I never thought I’d see a thread on Lemmy arguing that a group of young women should be forced to live with someone that they clearly font want to.

Good for you for arguing with them, I don’t have the energy this morning.