Three Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority members filed a notice Wednesday announcing that they’re appealing their recent court loss regarding the 2022 induction of a transgender member into the sorority’s University of Wyoming chapter.

Hannah Holtmeier, Alison Coghan, and Haley Rusch filed a notice in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming that they’re appealing Judge Alan B. Johnson’s Aug. 22 dismissal of their case.

The women in their lawsuit accused the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority of treating its members unfairly by allegedly tweaking the induction rules to admit a transgender member, though founding documents cast the group as a women’s organization.

Johnson dismissed the case on the grounds that U.S. case law gives private groups considerable latitude to dictate their own membership term

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