In the “The Equality State” where women first won the right to vote, are their rights to freedom from sexual and political victimization being lost?
Wyoming has been a state of notable firsts for women; however, the new territory being blazed at the University of Wyoming is one that will set women and girls within our state back by surrendering certain freedoms into the hands of a small group of men who see their own rights as more important.
Artemis Langford is one of these men. As someone well-known as a Democrat political activist to those working around the Wyoming Capitol, Langford took his activism into an all-female house at UW where he pledged as the first biological male/transgender female member and resident of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority in September of 2022.
Unwilling Activists
The women of Kappa Kappa Gamma likely had no intention of making a political statement or of becoming social pariahs, yet anyone who didn’t embrace their newest sorority “sister” became a target of scorn and labeled as unkind and transphobic. Fear of retribution kept many of them silent, but after becoming unwilling witnesses to, or victims of, Langford’s disturbing sexual behavior, seven women decided to push back and filed a lawsuit against their sorority in March.
In a recent move causing further distress, U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson denied the women’s requests to remain anonymous and ordered them to reveal their names. Six women chose to do so. One dropped out of the lawsuit before her name was revealed. Additional women who are witnesses in the complaint have also been forced to be named.
While Langford had willingly courted notoriety from various media sources, these young women did not. They only desired to attend classes and other collegiate activities while protecting themselves and minimizing disruption from campus activists. They did not voluntarily enlist in this battle pitting the rights of biological women against those who would usurp their right to be safe from sexual victimization in their own home. Instead, they were drafted and thrust into the front lines of new gender-bending ideologies.
A Woke Wake-Up Call
During the last legislative session, some used the excuse that gender issues and abuses were not a Wyoming problem. Only weeks after the session adjourned, we are now facing these very issues in the Kappa Kappa Gamma lawsuit, as well as a recently filed Rock Springs lawsuit that was driven by the idea that transgender ideology supersedes the rights of parents and family.
We at Wyoming Family Alliance applaud these young women for showing the strength women in Wyoming have historically been known for, and we pray they continue to endure this trial with fortitude, especially given that their names and faces have been published for public scrutiny. Sadly, we realize they are just the first of many to be forced down this road if our state refuses to stand up to the woke absurdities that have already invaded the culture of many other states.
Stand for True Equality in Wyoming
At Wyoming Family Alliance, we urge all citizens of our state to reject the attempt to overturn the hard-won liberties that have defined the “Equality State.” We can do this by first standing for the women of Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Winters is the President of Wyoming Family Alliance
