Lawyers Argue Over Transgender Woman’s Admittance to Sorority

A federal appeals court panel said Tuesday it might lack jurisdiction to resolve a fight at University of Wyoming over the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority accepting a biological male as a member.

During oral arguments in Denver, judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said a lower court’s ruling rejecting a challenge to the admittance of transgender woman Artemis Langford might not be final because it left open the door to revive the complaint.

The district court declined to define “woman,” leaving alone for now a determination by the sorority that Langford met the standard. However, ...