The sorority at the heart of a University of Wyoming lawsuit filed its own motion in district court Tuesday defending transgenderism with a lax take on how definitions work.

Terry Smith, the 6’2″, 260-pound man who portrays himself as a woman named Artemis Langford, was given the victim treatment by the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority as they accused their own members of taking “frivolous” legal action against the man for “their own political purposes.”

Filed in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne, KKG’s motion to dismiss wholly disregarded the concerns of “constant fear” expressed by the seven sisters originally part of the suit after Smith was permitted by the sorority to become a member, granting him access to shared spaces where he had been witnessed observing them in various states of undress while visibly aroused.

The lawsuit claims that Smith/Langford was frequently caught with “an erection visible through leggings.”

Despite that, the court documents detailed the sorority’s take that, “The central issue in this case is simple: do the plaintiffs have a legal right to be in a sorority that excludes transgender women? They do not.”

According to the filing, KKG had been operating under a policy allowing for men who claim to be women to have membership in their 145 chapters since 2015, a policy in line with the National Panhellenic Conference that oversees the sorority and 25 others.

The documents decidedly suggested, “The term [woman] is unquestionably open to many interpretations”  as it listed options for the aggrieved sisters that included voting to change the policy or leaving the organization.

“What they cannot do is have this court define their membership for them,” stated the motion as it argued that “private organizations have a right to interpret their own governing documents.”

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With problems stretching back to September 2022 when Smith joined the sorority, the sisters who filed their suit against KKG and council president Mary Pat Rooney had opened up about their experience on “The Megyn Kelly Show” in May, detailing how “It’s a weird, gut-wrenching feeling that every time I leave my room, I’ll walk past him in the hall in whatever setting that may be. And it’s never a pleasant encounter and that’s the scary part.”

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“This just goes to show that we need women’s spaces for that reason. Our house is our home,” the one sister continued.

Another described, “It is really uncomfortable. Some of the girls have been sexually assaulted or sexually harassed. Some girls live in constant fear in our home.”

To them, it remained clear that the definition of a woman was “an adult human female.”

Meanwhile, Smith’s attorney had filed in support of the motion to dismiss and argued the sorority sisters’ initial lawsuit does not claim any wrongdoing on his part and that their own actions have led him to be bullied “on the national stage.”

“This, alone, merits dismissal,” the filing read.

KKG’s motion further asserted, “Plaintiffs’ legal claims are baseless…show their supporters and others who may seek the courts for their own political purposes that funding frivolous litigation is not the way to resolve disputes or effect change,” as they too claimed there had been “significant harm that Plaintiffs and their supporters have unleashed on this organization and the chapter they profess to love.”

In effect, the sorority suggested that those unwilling to accept the transgender member can tell their story walking: “Plaintiffs can also resign their membership in the organization if a position of inclusion is too offensive to their personal values.”

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