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Originally Posted by clemsongirl
-She did receive some invites but was eventually cut by all chapters-according to my friend she wasn't the most stellar PNM in terms of grades, involvement, etc anyways so it's not as though sororities were passing on an otherwise superstar PNM because of her biological gender.
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This is where I foresee there being more problems than anything else. I agree that trans women are women and I would support my organization welcoming them with open arms into membership! But my concern would be that, especially with all NPC membership selection processes being private, it could get into a very sticky situation. It would take one less-than-stellar PNM being dropped from recruitment to go on Twitter and say they were dropped
for being trans before the entire Greek system was raked over the coals.
That's NOT to say that all trans PNMs would do that, but if someone did, I feel like it would be blown out of proportion and all Greeks would be made by the media to look like transphobic idiots when, in reality, we have membership standards we uphold for every PNM, cisgendered or transgendered. What's the solution? I'm not sure. And do I think this is reason enough to not allow trans students to participate in recruitment?
No. I think we'd really have to work on making sure all PNMs feel welcomed to kind of avoid them feeling like they were singled out for being trans.
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