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Originally Posted by anna7363
@theatalady, I think your comment completely encapsulates the situation. All you people who are alumni and in nationals made these policies to keep trans women out of sororities on purpose. You are well aware that it is a very rare person who could have any chance of meeting all your set requirements. Maybe a dozen trans women on earth were born in a state where there birth certificates could get changed, is from a family that has 20,000 dollars to burn on surgery, and has a family accepting enough to transition under the age of 18.
Yes this did happen! You know why I care? Because I have a transgender sister who is 14 years old and to know she will not have the same opportunities in life I have had breaks my heart. That the insane requirements you people make will mean she can never join sorority life, she can never go to a woman's college, she may be raped out of spite because of attitudes like yours. I never said this girl was fully transitioned, I said no one really knows.
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1. To your first point, it is a rare individual who has transitioned fully at 18. Most trans people I know waited until college or moving out of their family homes before they felt comfortable enough to begin the process of transitioning. Everything that goes along with transitioning would make the importance of sorority membership pale in comparison. I would say this about anyone pursuing any major life change. Parenthood. Marriage. Insert big life event or change here.
2. You should have just come out with this story instead of fabricating a story about the trans woman that caused a mean minority of your sorority to violate your rules for voting on members. Unless this is a fabrication as well, and then you might as well be honest.