Revokes lifetime membership after 50+ years of sisterhood.
Friend,
Last week, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae who have been integral to the fight to stand up for sisterhood and keep sororities female were kicked out of Kappa Kappa Gamma by national leadership, effective immediately. The two alumnae are members of Independent Women's Network – Patsy Levang and Cheryl Tuck-Smith. They have remained committed to Kappa Kappa Gamma for over a half century, involved and engaged, staying true to their sisterhood and shared Kappa values.
Under its bylaws, KKG’s membership is limited to women. But in light of the sorority’s recent conduct to betray those bylaws and allow in biological males who claim to be women, Kappa active and alumna members felt a responsibility to speak up to preserve and protect the sorority and its 153 year commitment to women.
These Kappa Kappa Gamma alumnae have been integral voices in this stand for sisterhood and Kappa’s own bylaws, backing the Wyoming chapter women who were denied the all-women sisterhood they were promised and their lawsuit Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma, which Independent Women’s Law Center is appealing in the Tenth Circuit.
Esteemed past Kappa Kappa Gamma National Foundation President, Patsy Levang, said: “My heart was saddened when the current six council members voted me out, however, I will not be quiet about the truth.”
Long-time member and active contributor, Cheryl Tuck-Smith, said: “I was hurt when I was terminated as a member of KKG, but also disturbed that KKG has become a political tool rather than an organization that promotes women. My dismissal simply spurs me on to educate others about the dangers of DEI which in reality does not support diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Initially informed by the sorority’s Standards Director of their possible dismissal, Patsy Levang and Cheryl Tuck-Smith each were given an opportunity to respond. Initially informed by the sorority’s Standards Director of their possible dismissal, Patsy Levang and Cheryl Tuck-Smith each were given an opportunity to respond. Levang’s responses can be read here and here. Tuck-Smith’s responses can be read here and here.
While Levang and Tuck-Smith are the ones being accused of violating Kappa’s policies, in reality, Kappa leadership has failed to protect single-sex spaces and women’s rights to privacy and safety as promised in Kappa’s governing documents, and has instead responded with retaliation, viewpoint discrimination, and cancel culture against its own members.
Sororities were founded to provide a single-sex space for women, and Kappa Kappa Gamma’s board members cannot eliminate that promise by quietly redefining the word “woman.”
How to help:
Read the exclusive news report featuring IWN’s Patsy Levang and Cheryl Tuck-Smith in National Review HERE.
Sign your name to the Save Sisterhood petition HERE.
If you’re a sorority woman, please tell us your thoughts on sororities quietly changing membership statements to allow men into our sororities HERE.
