Sex Change and Membership

[jon1856]

BON-One of my Brothers, after graduation, did have an operation.
I found out while doing a search for my pledge class reunion.
Up until then, I believed that there was only one woman member of SAE.
My Brother is still listed, just under a new name.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by jon1856

BON-One of my Brothers, after graduation, did have an operation.
I found out while doing a search for my pledge class reunion.
Up until then, I believed that there was only one woman member of SAE.
My Brother is still listed, just under a new name.

I want to know more about this. Can you tell more?

[cuteASAbug]

What I would give to be a fly on the wall at that recruitment:
ABC Rusher: I love your shoes! You have great style!
Rushee: Thank you so much. The ability to wear cute Manolos like these was part of the reason for why I wanted to get a sex change.

[FSUZeta]

but would manolos come in size 16?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

but would manolos come in size 16?

Nice.

[ChildoftheHorn]

Hmm....

I would say that if you are a gender-confused individual, sorority membership is probably the last thing on your mind. Seriously, if you consider yourself more like a guy...why would you want to be around flower prints and pink for long periods of time?

I really don't think that a guy who thinks himself a girl would want to be in a trashed out fraternity house and do "manly" things.

Homosexuality is something else entirely. I know some homosexual men who are in fraternities, but they are "manly" and are not at all the stereotype. LOL, most of their brothers don't even know because they don't suspect it even though they freely admit it. There was a guy who tried to rush the sororities last year, but it was shot down. I don't really know any homosexual females, so I cannot comment at all on that.

Be REALISTIC PEOPLE!!!!!

FYI, HQ would probably never know unless you were very very public with it or told them.

[Thetagirl218]

So this an interesting thread. I honestly don't know why a fraternity alum who went through a sex change would want to stay a member? I know that sounds harsh, but a fraternity represents a men's only organization (I am NOT refeering to women's fraternities here), and isn't the point of having a sex change to embrace the woman you were all along? So why would this previous male join a fraternity anyways? Its just confusing to me.

Also, I was waiting for the whole homosexual topic to come up and it did. I know both fraternity and sorority members who are homosexual and this is not a problem in their chapters or universities.

[Drolefille]

I know bisexual and lesbian women who are members of NPC chapters. Mostly it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by ChildoftheHorn

Hmm....

I would say that if you are a gender-confused individual, sorority membership is probably the last thing on your mind. Seriously, if you consider yourself more like a guy...why would you want to be around flower prints and pink for long periods of time?

I really don't think that a guy who thinks himself a girl would want to be in a trashed out fraternity house and do "manly" things.

Gender-confused? My, my. I don't know that I've ever met a transgender or transsexual individual who was confused about his or her gender. They all knew who they were inside and who they were outside from an early age.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by ChildoftheHorn

Hmm....

I would say that if you are a gender-confused individual, sorority membership is probably the last thing on your mind. Seriously, if you consider yourself more like a guy...why would you want to be around flower prints and pink for long periods of time?

I really don't think that a guy who thinks himself a girl would want to be in a trashed out fraternity house and do "manly" things.

Homosexuality is something else entirely. I know some homosexual men who are in fraternities, but they are "manly" and are not at all the stereotype. LOL, most of their brothers don't even know because they don't suspect it even though they freely admit it. There was a guy who tried to rush the sororities last year, but it was shot down. I don't really know any homosexual females, so I cannot comment at all on that.

Be REALISTIC PEOPLE!!!!!

FYI, HQ would probably never know unless you were very very public with it or told them.

The whole thread is based on a joke in another thread. There's nobody who really thinks it's a real and pressing issue in Greek life. Just kind of a "hey, I wonder if . . . "

I think the idea though is that the person would want to join the group he or she internally identified with, so it's a girl who feels like a man and wants to join a fraternity or a guy who wants to join a sorority.

And if someone realized this was an issue after college, I don't think it probably figures in to their decision at all.


ETA: I'm not PC, and I'll just say that for I think a bigger section of the population than maybe some of you realize, what you are on the outside and what every cell of your body shows in DNA is in fact your sex or gender.

So when you don't feel like you match on the inside, the issue may your head and not with your reproductive system.

I think some day soon this thinking may seem as generally Neanderthal as thinking that homosexuality was a problem does today. But I don't think most of us are there yet.

To some of us it makes no more sense to think you can choose your gender or sex as it would to think you could choose your race. Sure, you can address all of the elements that are culturally constructed, but if your momma thinks you're white and your DNA says your ancestors are from Europe and you have naturally light pigment, straight blond hair, and blue eyes, many of us would think you were just a little nutty if you felt like you were Black on the inside.