A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter at the University of Wyoming after the group admitted a male member, Artemis Langford, in 2022.

On Friday, Judge Alan Johnson of the District of Wyoming dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice, claiming that the three plaintiffs — Hannah Holtmeier, Allison Coghan, and Haley Rutsch — failed in their amended complaint to convince the court to "interfere with Kappa's contractually valid interpretation of its own Bylaws."

"Nothing in the Bylaws or the Standing Rules," Johnson continued, "requires Kappa to narrowly define the words 'women' or 'woman' to include only those individuals born with a certain set of reproductive organs, particularly when even the dictionary cited by Plaintiffs offers a m

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