Female students suing college sorority for admitting biological male — judge orders plaintiffs to publicly reveal their names to move forward with lawsuit

Seven female students at the University of Wyoming who anonymously filed a lawsuit against their sorority for admitting a biological man who identifies as a woman were ordered by a U.S. District Court judge to reveal their names to move forward with the case.

The women, who all identified as "Jane Doe," twice requested to remain anonymous throughout the legal proceedings, but U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson ruled against those requests.

Johnson ordered the female students "to reveal their names if they wanted to continue the lawsuit," the Cowboy State Daily reported Thursday.

Six of the seven students who filed the original complaint against the sorority have elected to reveal their names to the public. One of the females decided to drop out of the lawsuit.

The women moving forward with the case are all current students at the university and members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.

Last September, the students filed a lawsuit against the sorority for allowing a transgender woman, Artemis Langford, to join the chapter. In the original case, Langford was referred to by the pseudonym "Terry Smith" because the female students wanted "to spare Langford of threats and attacks, and hope to see Langford treated with kindness and respect."

According to the Cowboy State Daily, the lawsuit argued that by permitting transgender member Artemis Langford into the sorority last year, "sorority officers broke a contract with them and breached their fiduciary duty to the sorority itself."

The suit also claimed that sorority leaders "betrayed" the members' "understanding of what they were joining and the sorority's own guiding documents."

"Plaintiffs are now required, as a condition of membership," the suit stated, "to reside in the same house as a 6'2", 260-pound man who stares at them, asks about their intimate past, makes notes about their statements and takes photographs of them without their consent, and intimidates them by threatening to publicly label them bigots if they raise concerns."

The female sorority members accused Langford of "watching" the other members of the house. According to the females, "During one of those peeping incidents, Langford has a visible 'erection.'"

According to the lawsuit, during another incident, one female member stated she was "walk[ing] down the hall to take a shower, wearing only a towel … She felt an unsettling presence, turned, and saw Mr. Smith watching her silently."

The sorority members also stated that Langford "repeatedly questioned the women about what vaginas look like, breast cup size, whether women were considering breast reductions and birth control."

Langford's Tinder dating profile revealed that the transgender woman is "sexually interested in women," according to the lawsuit.

The six female students are now also suing Langford in hopes that the judge will order the removal of the biological male from the sorority. The students are not seeking monetary damages.

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