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Originally Posted by Ag_Sis
Hi everyone, I think this is an interesting debate so I'll just give it my two cents:
1) As to the Brown University Panhellenic unilaterally allowing female-identifying students to rush, that doesn't necessarily mean that the individual chapters themselves can or will offer membership to trans PNMs. A similar situation happens at A&M and UT Austin where Panhellenic allowed community college students who take a few classes at the 4-year college to rush. I remember there was such a big brouhaha over Panhellenic "forcing" chapters to accept Blinn TEAM/PACE students, but ultimately, it was the individual sorority's decision whether to accept or not. There was a big debate over whether it was "allowed" or not. There was a big debate over Panhellenic "forcing." But as far as I know, every single sorority at A&M this past year has accepted a Blinn TEAM member.
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This is a good point, too: no one is making the chapters offer bids to these girls if they choose not to. I would hope that being trans would not be the reason for not offering membership, but like with the PNM I told the story about above part of private membership selection practices is that chapters don't have to give reasons for not inviting a PNM back to their parties.
Unless this policy was adopted at Tufts or another school that requires that all PNMs be given a bid to a chapter as long as they meet basic membership requirements (are there even other schools that do this?), chapters still retain some measure of autonomy.