Sorority tells Megyn Kelly girls are in ‘constant fear’ with trans woman in sisterhood
Luke Gentile
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Sorority sisters at the University of Wyoming are suing after a transgender student was inducted into their local chapter and told Megyn Kelly on Monday they feel scared and betrayed by the institutions that are supposed to keep them safe.
“It’s a weird, gut-wrenching feeling that, every time I leave my room, there’s a possibility that I’ll walk past him in the hall,” one of the sisters invited to speak on The Megyn Kelly Show said.
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“It’s a weird feeling just to know that I could run into him anytime … [the transgender student] has full access to the house. But this just goes to show we need women’s spaces for that reason.”
At least seven sorority sisters of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority named the national sorority, its nationwide council president, and the transgender student, identified in the suit under the pseudonym “Terry Smith,” as defendants in their lawsuit.
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Smith remains in the common areas for hours and stares at the women without speaking, according to the lawsuit.
“Our house is our home. Just like anyone else’s home, like you go home at the end of the day to feel comfortable and relaxed in your own skin, and you can’t do that knowing that this individual has full access to your house,” the sister told Kelly.
Smith, who does not live in Kappa Kappa Gamma’s sorority house, is also accused of not leaving a slumber party until two hours after the promised time and becoming “sexually aroused” while watching sorority sisters change clothes, according to the lawsuit.
“Some of the girls in the house, I know, they’ve been sexually assaulted or sexually harassed,” another sister told Kelly. “Some girls live in constant fear.”
“Men are never allowed on the second floor of our house except for move-in and move-out, just to help us lift heavy things upstairs. So, it is seriously an only female space. … It’s supposed to be a safe place that we can go to rest our heads at night.”
When Kelly asked how Smith was allowed to move into the house next year, one student discussed how an exemption was granted for “his safety.”
“Headquarters, I think, in an effort to try to protect what little dignity they have left in this whole deal, has decided that the individual does not need to live in the house even though that’s a requirement and that you have to seek an exemption from that requirement,” the sisters’ attorney Cassie Craven said.
“This individual has gotten preferential treatment every turn of the way, and we’ve seen that with the living situation, but, unfortunately, that individual still comes to the house, still engages in dinner, still sits in the chair and watches the girls … all of the things that are not appropriate.”
National officials put pressure on the University of Wyoming chapter to violate rules to induct the transgender student, the plaintiffs argue, and many sisters have abandoned the sorority, according to one sister.
“I reconnected with fellow sisters and alumni, and I realized how important this organization is to me and to everybody else,” she told Kelly. “I refuse to allow subverting my rights as a woman to cater towards the comfort of a man. I will not let him take these opportunities away from me.”
“Right on, sister,” Kelly told the young woman. “Fight! Fight! Right? It’s one thing to fight and lose, but you haven’t lost yet … Fight! Nobody’s fighting. That’s one of the problems, you know? Even the UPenn female swimmers did not fight. Riley Gaines was not on UPenn.”
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“She was outraged, and then she found her voice. This is how change happens. What you’re doing right now … Maybe the Kappa leadership will lose, and you guys will win, and a real point will be made, but go down swinging at a minimum.”
The young women are seeking unspecified damages and the termination of Smith’s membership.