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Almost two years to the day after a federal court dismissed a lawsuit against a University of Wyoming sorority for admitting a transgender woman, U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson dismissed the case again.

In his ruling Friday, Johnson’s reasoning was much the same as it was the last time he tossed the case. Kappa Kappa Gamma, the sorority that admitted student Artemis Langford in the fall of 2022, has the freedom as a private organization to decide who it wants to admit as members — including transgender women — the judge concluded.

“In short, we are required to leave Kappa alone,” Johnson wrote.

In 2023, six Kappa Kappa Gamma members s

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