Saturday Night Live has been accused of mocking the transgender community after airing a pointed sketch about men conning their way into college sororities.

The comedy show divided opinions with a provocative segment in its latest episode in which a student raised concerns one of the sorority's members may actually be a man in a latex mask. 

The suspected male, played by SNL regular Mikey Day, was seen eating and smoking through obvious prosthetics, all while the other sorority sisters took offense over the suggestion he was not really female.

Some viewers said the sketch marked a dramatic shift for the typically liberal show writers and felt it appeared to take aim at transgender people. 

Evolutionary psychologist Diana Fleischman, a frequent commentator and critic on transgender issues, took to X to say that the sketch showed that 'nature is healing'.

Fleischman said that the SNL jokes were 'making fun of autogynephiles', defined as a man with an erotic attraction to dressing as a woman. 

Others said the sketch may have been mocking the controversial case of University of Wyoming student Artemis Langford, a transgender woman who triggered a lawsuit from her fellow sorority sisters following her admission into the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter. 

Langford, a six-foot-two, 200lb freshman, allegedly leered at other sorority girls with an erection and made them uncomfortable, sparking a legal dispute over whether the sorority should allow a trans woman to join. 

Political commentator Wesley Yang pointed to the case of Artemis Langford as he responded to the Saturday Night Live sketch. 

'On SNL, it's a joke,' he wrote on X. 'In reality, the sorority sisters failed in their federal lawsuit and the Washington Post wrote a weepy feature story about the man who joined the sorority.'

Another X user said that TRA's - meaning transgender rights activists - 'will be super p***ed after tonight's SNL sorority skit. That hits too close to home.' 

Daily Mail has contacted NBC Studios for comment on the response to the SNL sketch.  

Yang noted that the girls that sued the national Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority body in 2024 to protest Langford being allowed into their University of Wyoming campus home lost their case. 

The lawsuit alleged that Langford had a visible erection after being given access to the house. 

However, the lawsuit fell flat because the sorority said the word 'woman' is 'undefined' in the sorority's bylaws, and therefore did not preclude a trans woman from joining. 

Attorney for the national group, Natalie M McLaughlin, said at the time: 'The membership qualification in the bylaws remain the same, there has been no amendment to the bylaws which is that a member must be a woman.

'That qualification however is undefined in the bylaws.'

The case was thrown out by a judge in August, as it was ruled that the sorority can define a 'woman' however it chooses. 

The judge in the case ruled that the Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter did not violate any rules by allowing Langford to join and said that the organization 'defines women by their gender and not their "biological sex".'

'Nothing in the Bylaws or the Standing Rules requires Kappa to narrowly define the words ‘women’ or ‘woman’ to include only those individuals born with a certain set of reproductive organs, particularly when even the dictionary cited by Plaintiffs offers a more expansive definition,' the judge said. 

Before the case was thrown out, Langford appeared on MSNBC to answer the allegations of voyeurism against her, in which she said she was the victim in the case. 

After being introduced by interviewer Yasmin Vossoughian as 'the very brave woman at the center of it all', Langford described 'the sheer terror of being in a lawsuit and not knowing what's happening next'.

'It's been a very difficult year to say the least,' Langford said.

'The sheer surreal-ness of being in a media cycle again and again even though I didn't necessarily want to be, given all this attention because of my identity.

'And then the sheer terror of being in a lawsuit and not knowing what's happening next, especially with threats online and harassment both physically and online.

'It's been very hard on myself and those that are in my chapter, and campus in general has been very affected because of that.'

Daily Mail has contacted NBC Studios for comment.