Sorority recruitment is just about a month away, so get ready because TikTok and Instagram feeds are about to be flooded with philanthropy, rush outfits, and, of course, Bid Day photos and videos.Â
Sororities have provided millions of women, including myself, with a powerful community through sisterhood. College is a time where women develop social and leadership skills and experience opportunities that influence who we are, and it is empowering to be surrounded by a network of women with whom to share these experiences.
Single-sex spaces have played an important role in elevating women. Unfortunately, like women’s sports and prisons, preserving women’s sorority spaces, opportunities, and safety has become secondary to allowing men who identify as women to gain access into sororities, all-female living quarters, and sisterhood events.Â
Kappa Kappa Gamma, a non profit corporation that like other sororities has, for more than 150 years, limited membership to only women, is under fire for violating its bylaws and forcing a chapter to admit a biological male. Several Kappa sisters in the chapter asked questions and spoke up with concerns but were ultimately ignored. They’ve banded together to file a lawsuit against Kappa and its national leadership.Â
Two weeks ago, Kappa doubled down on the admission of the male student, submitting a brief urging the court to dismiss the case. Shockingly, Kappa is painting the biological male as the victim — not the young girls who have been harmed by a large man coming into their sorority and all-female spaces.Â
The details in the lawsuit are appalling to any rational human being. It’s clear Kappa leadership has forced a radical agenda on young women without their consent and defied sorority bylaws.
Moreover, this week, Kappa leadership dug their heels in by posting a leadership recruitment video online and on social media platforms featuring 2020 alumna initiate Tracy Nadzieja, a biological man who now identifies as a woman. Tracy was formerly Thomas Nadzieja and a Sigma Pi at Arizona State University fraternity member.Â
Don’t think this is just a problem for Kappa. ALL 26 Panhellenic organizations have quietly tried to change the meaning of ‘woman’ and ‘women,’ leaving all sororities open to the same vulnerability.
You can help stop this, Friend. We need your voice!
