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‘Extreme and outrageous conduct’ that ‘publicly humiliated’ him
A judge has allowed a pair of complaints from the first “transgender student” to join a Wyoming sorority to move forward against one of the sorority’s attorneys.
Artemis Langford, a biological male, joined the University of Wyoming’s Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority in 2022. Early the following year, members of the sorority sued Kappa’s national organization claiming it “ignored its own charter and bylaws” by allowing Langford to join.
A federal judge ruled, however, the sorority is a private organization and “can admit whomever it chooses.”
The case was appealed to the 10th Circuit, where it remains active, and seeks a reversal of the earlier decision — which includes “damages from the national sorority,” Langford’s expulsion, and a definition of “woman” that means “biological female.”
But Wyoming Public Radio reports Langford had sued two of the attorneys representing the sorority sisters alleging they “engaged in ‘extreme and outrageous conduct’ while advancing their clients’ case and ‘publicly humiliate[d]’” him.
For example, in response to conservative pundit Megyn Kelly saying of Langford “I think this is a guy who’s just getting off on living with these beautiful women,” lawyer Cassie Craven replied “It could be. I’ve had a lot of friends tell me, ‘If I knew it was that easy to get into a sorority house, I would have put on a skirt a long time ago.’”
In response to the suit, Craven had noted Langford’s “own willingness to step into the spotlight,” first in the U. Wyoming student paper and then the Washington Post.
Nevertheless, Craven ended up settling with Langford on all complaints brought against her.
Attorney John Knepper also is a defendant in Langford’s lawsuit despite not making any “national TV appearances,” unlike Craven and various Kappa Kappa Gamma members.
A judge dismissed two of Langford’s complaints against him, but allowed the other two — “abuse of process and intentional infliction of emotional distress” — to move forward to a possible jury trial.
In late 2022, the public University of Wyoming had banned a Christian activist from setting up a table after he had a placard reading “God created male and female and Artemis Langford is a male.”
After losing in court the following year, UW eventually settled with the activist, rescinding its tabling ban and paying the activist’s $35,000 in attorney fees.
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