Sorority ‘ obsessed with taking away this essential women’s room,’ student says
During its 150th anniversary celebration, a University of Kansas pupil is protesting the sorority’s decision to honor a female transgender activist who identified as adult.
Sarah Green, ( pictured ) a junior at the University of Kansas and a member of the KU chapter of Sigma Kappa, said the national sorority is ignoring its members ‘ desire for women-only spaces.
” The national board ]of Sigma Kappa] is so obsessed with taking away this crucial women’s space when they do n’t have to live with the consequences”, Green told The College Fix in a recent email.
Following Sigma Kappa National’s honorable membership to transgender activist Stevie Tran during its party over the summer, Green, a electrical engineering big, started speaking out on X in July.
This Wednesday, the Sigma Kappa college is granting honourable account to a 37 year-old trans lawyer, activist and former nephew in the Sigma Phi Beta brotherhood. How did we arrive, and what is happening? A yarn. photograph. twitter.com/QUyLqdE4da
— Sarah Green ( @sarahgreen314 ) July 8, 2024
Tran, a 37-year-old men who identifies as girl, previously served as federal leader for the Sigma Phi Beta brotherhood.
In a statement in response to the award, Tran claimed that joining a Sisterhood would only increase her level of empowerment.
The Fix sent two emails asking about Tran’s participation and concerns raised by Green that neither Sigma Kappa National nor the KU section of Sigma Kappa had responded to.
According to Green, Sigma Kappa is “fundamentally changing” its goal of “promoting longtime connection in brotherhood while remaining true to our establishment as an intellectual and social children’s sorority.”
When Green was questioned about why she thought it was dangerous to use natural men in women’s space, Green responded, stating that there were “unlimited reasons.”
One of the problems is that “girls do n’t want it”, but the decision also “forces ideology onto girls …]by making ] everyone fearful to speak up”, Green said.
Unfortunately, it hinders “free talk and open conversation”, she told The Fix.
” And, let’s be honest, while practically every part I have spoken to is shocked at these efforts of ‘ inclusion,’ most are wary of stating thus formally or even within their book. They fear being suspended or subjected to harassment, Green wrote on X.
According to Green, Sigma Kappa does n’t appear to be taking into account the concerns of its members.
According to her X article, current and former sorority members overwhelmingly opposed admitting non-binary users, according to a survey conducted by Stat National next year.
The study found 45 percentage answered “no” to the query:” There is room in Sigma Kappa for people who identify as intersex”. In contrast, 39 percent said “yes”, and 16 said they were” not sure”.
I’ve requested that the survey’s findings be made available to the account many times. This did n’t happen. However, leadership suddenly released the results of two of the 15+ concerns about 6 weeks after the study. According to those benefits, SK’s picture was overwhelmingly preferred to be kept… twitter.com/j2yRmViMwt
— Sarah Green ( @sarahgreen314 ) July 8, 2024
According to the survey results that Green obtained, there was strong opposition to changing the enrollment policy to help “nonbinary” members.
However, the federal sorority’s website shows diversity, equity, and inclusion and expresses its purpose to get” a more inviting place for current and potential nonbinary people”.
The La strategies used by Sigma Kappa include obtaining” assistance from members on a membership eligibility change” to include intersex members.
Green, a KU undergraduate senator, expressed concern about broader initiatives at the University of Kansas.
She said a bill that would need professor use of pronouns and be passed by the scholar senate was just pushed through by the student senator.
If the bill is passed, Green said, it may give KU command the authority to punish students who oppose the inclusion of transgender people in female spaces.
In contrast, Green told The Fix the common school” spent$ 18+ million on DEI only last month”.
This number is confirmed by a legislative post audit conducted in February by state representative Steven Howe.
The Fix even contacted the Independent Women’s Forum, and the University of Kansas’s Office of Public Affairs twice by message, but did not receive a response. Queries pertained to Tran’s account, Green’s X blog, and the University of Kansas’s DEI plan.
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