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Originally Posted by Kevin
I'm not sure why you'd bring Title IX into it. If you have members of both sexes, you're just a social club. Just like Circle K, but maybe with a house. There are co-ed groups out there right now.
And I don't know why a U.S. based co-ed group would hamstring themselves with extra requirements to install chapters like having a prerequisite number of members of each sex.
If you're single sex, I'd understand Title IX applies. If you're not, it doesn't. Easy peasy, right? I think?
And I say this not as a lawyer with a deep understanding of Title IX. I've just been tangentially exposed as a member and alum-volunteer over the years. So take what I'm saying with a big grain of salt.
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Because it would be entirely possible for the fraternity to have a fraternity chapter and sorority chapter at the University of Georgia, a fraternity chapter only at University of Maryland, which means that the University of Maryland they won't admit women (unless there are enough of them to make a chapter) and a sorority chapter at Penn State, which means at Penn State they won't admit men (unless there are enough of them to make a chapter).
And as for "why", at least for Alpha Phi Omega Philippines, it was because they went through the process of the individual chapters having little sister groups, which became affiliate sororities under various names, they got brought into the umbrella as a *National* affiliate sorority, and then the national affiliate sorority gained equality. All without having men and women ever being part of the same local chapter.