Rally and Press Conference: Westenbroek v. KKG

May 10, 2024

On Tuesday May 14, a collection of women’s organizations, including Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI USA) will gather at the Byron White Courthouse in Denver, Colorado, to rally in support of the plaintiffs in Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma, while the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing oral arguments in the case. The rally will be followed by a press conference after oral arguments conclude.

In this case, Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) admitted a man named Artemis Langford into the sorority, in violation of the organization’s bylaws, which state unambiguously that a new member “shall be a woman.”

As the feminist publication Reduxx explains:

Though Langford had been residing elsewhere at the time of the first filing, women alleged that he would frequently sit in the second-floor common area and had been observed watching the women on multiple occasions.

According to court records, Langford had been voyeuristically peeping on the women while they were in intimate situations, and, on at least one occasion, had a visible erection while doing so.

“One sorority member walked down the hall to take a shower, wearing only a towel … She felt an unsettling presence, turned, and saw [Langford] watching her silently,” the court document reads.

“[Langford] has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,” the suit says. “Other times, he has had a pillow in his lap.”

As evidenced by his Tinder profile, Langford is “sexually interested in women.” It was further stated in the suit that Langford took photographs of the women while at a sorority slumber party, where he also is said to have made inappropriate comments.

Six sorority members sued, and last year, federal district judge Alan B. Johnson dismissed their complaint. The case is now before the 10th Circuit, where WDI USA has filed a friend-of-the-court brief. The brief makes two main arguments:

1. The District Court is correct that organizations have an associational right to engage in protected speech but misconstrued the facts and misapplied the law in this case by ruling in favor of KKG.

2. Sex is grounded in material reality, whereas “gender” (including linguistic derivatives like “gender identity,” “transgender” and “cisgender”) is grounded in regressive sexist stereotypes, and the idea that a man who “identifies as a woman” is in fact a woman is patently harmful to women and girls, including lesbians, as a sex class.

A media advisory is available here. All members of the media are encouraged to cover WDI USA’s radical feminist objections to KKG’s policy of admitting men and to the enshrinement of “gender identity” in law and policy generally.

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