GUEST APPEARANCE: Thoughts on transgender controversies

I agree with John Murtari and a previous Finger Lakes Times column of his that schoolchildren need to be protected from harmful transgender policies.

Seven members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming filed a lawsuit last year against the national sorority organization, its national council president, and Artemis Langford, 21, a 6-foot-2, 260-pound, self-proclaimed trans student who joined their chapter in September 2022.

The lawsuit alleges that Langford — referred to under the male pseudonym Terry Smith in the lawsuit — “while watching members enter the sorority house had an erection visible through his leggings,” and that he had stared at the women for hours without talking. “One sorority member walked down the hall to take a shower, wearing only a towel. She felt an unsettling presence, turned, and saw Mr. Smith watching her silently,” according to legal documents.

According to a May 16 New York Post article, “University of Wyoming Sorority Sisters Say They Live In Fear Of Trans-member,” one of the sisters complained, “It’s a weird feeling just to know that I could run into him anytime — He has full access to the house. But this goes to show like we need women’s spaces for that reason. Like 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 skin. And you can’t do that knowing that this individual has full access to your house.”

Another sorority sister said some of the other........

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