DENVER (NEWSnet/AP) — A U.S. appeals court in Denver will hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by six members of a University of Wyoming sorority who are challenging the admission of a transgender woman into their local chapter.

In their lawsuit, six members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter challenge Artemis Langford’s admission by casting doubt on whether sorority rules allowed a transgender woman.

A judge in Wyoming threw out the suit last year, ruling that he could not override how the private, voluntary organization defined a woman and order that she not belong.

The case is now before the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.

The case at Wyoming’s only four-year public university has drawn widespread attention as transgender people fight for more acceptance in schools, athletics, workplaces and elsewhere, while others push back. A “Save Sisterhood” rally took place at the courthouse before the hearing.

The lawsuit and appeal describe how Langford's presence made the women feel uncomfortable in the sorority house in Laramie, Wyoming, yet sorority leaders overrode their concerns after a vote by the local chapter members to admit Langford.

Last summer, Wyoming U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson in Cheyenne sided with the sorority and Langford by ruling that sorority bylaws don’t define who’s a woman.

The national Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority and its president, Mary Pat Rooney, are the current defendants.

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