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Deep Reads: A trans woman’s journey to acceptance

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After seeking community and sisterhood in a sorority, Artemis Langford faced death threats and an attempt to kick her out because of her identity. This Deep Reads episode is part of a collection of occasional weekend stories from “Post Reports.”

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm William One, an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post.

0:03.8

I'm bringing you the next story in a new weekend offering from post-reports.

0:08.4

We're calling these stories deep breeds.

0:10.6

It's part of the post-commitment to narrative journalism.

0:13.6

The story I wrote for today is about a 21-year-old university of Wyoming student

0:18.8

who is looking for community by joining a sorority.

0:21.8

Instead, she faced death threats, a federal lawsuit,

0:24.7

and attempted to kick her out because of who she was.

0:27.6

The story is read to you by narrator from our partners at the NOAA app or newsoveraudio.com.

0:34.3

Someone I worked with on a previous story told me about the student that joined a sorority

0:40.0

who is a trans woman and that she was having a really tough time.

0:44.4

I started talking to the student Artemis and just finding out a little bit more about what

0:48.6

her life was like in the years since this had happened since she joined the sorority.

0:53.3

And it was just really interesting kind of appalling at times amid everything that was happening

1:00.4

to her. She's still just a person and just another student nervous about starting a new semester

1:06.4

at a campus. There's so many of these topics like transgender issues that are so controversial

1:13.3

right now in politicized. And I just hope people will understand that no matter which side you're on,

1:21.2

that there's real people on both sides. Here's my story.

1:44.0

The morning sky was still dark as Artemis Langford's father hoisted the last of her belongings

1:49.6

into her car for the drive back to college. Be safe, he told her. I will, she promised.

1:58.6

She didn't mention how a day earlier, as she scrolled through social media comments,

2:03.2

she saw someone had called her a sicko who should be torn apart in a woodchipper

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