Two sorority members were removed as alumni after suggesting to gatekeep their sorority forms transgendered women.
According to reports, Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae Patsy Levang and Cheryl Tuck-Smith were expelled from their sorority after they supported a lawsuit to remove transgendered female Artemis Langford.
The two biological women had been members of the sorority for 50 years. Levang was a former president of the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Foundation. Their expulsion was determined by national leadership and was effective immediately.
“My heart was saddened when the current six council members voted me out. However, I will not be quiet about the truth,” she said in a press release released by the Independent Women’s Forum.
Allie Coghan, a fellow Kappa Kappa Gamma alumna and a plaintiff in the lawsuit, called the sorority’s decision “disappointing.”
“It was really disappointing to hear that they’re being dismissed because this is retaliation against women, and it’s supposed to be an organization meant for women,” Coghan told Fox News.
“So to hear that they didn’t want to see these brave women sticking up for us and supporting us, then, I mean, where are we supposed to go? Where are women supposed to go if a women’s organization isn’t going to stick up for itself?” she added.
The sorority has since commented on the duo’s dismissal but did not provide additional information about the decision.
“We do not share information publicly about policy violations that may result in disciplinary action,” Kappa Kappa Gamma said in a statement to Fox News.
The issue started when Kappa Kappa Gamma allowed 21-year-old Langford, a biological man who identifies as a woman, into the sorority’s University of Wyoming chapter last September. This prompted a lawsuit from six female members of the school’s sorority chapter.
“There the issue is going to be Kappa’s bylaws protect women. It says that only women can be members,” Coghan’s lawyer May Mailman said during an interview on Fox News. “So the big question for the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is what is a woman? Do you know what a woman is? This is something that we don’t expect to be a very difficult legal brief to write.”
