Sex Change and Membership

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Southron

Unlike other fraternities that have allowed co-ed membership in certain chapters

Other than Alpha Delta Phi (which, to be technical, is an all male fraternity and a co-ed society - 2 different entities), examples please? (Chapters that leave the national fraternity and become local fraternities, like some of the groups at Dartmouth, don't count.)

[dukemama]

Originally Posted by 33girl

examples please?

Psi Upsilon has several coed chapters (the one at Duke was all-male while I was there, but went coed a few years ago). Other than that, though, I don't know of any others besides APO -- and that's considered a service fraternity rather than a social GLO.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Other than Alpha Delta Phi (which, to be technical, is an all male fraternity and a co-ed society - 2 different entities), examples please?

Originally Posted by dukemama

Psi Upsilon has several coed chapters (the one at Duke was all-male while I was there, but went coed a few years ago).

Delta Psi, aka St. Anthony Hall, which went co-ed in the 1960s. Also, as dukemama says, some chapters of Psi U are co-ed.

And although were are not an NIC fraternity, for a short time between the mid-70s and 1985, some women -- 236, to be exact -- were initiated into Phi Mu Alpha due to some uncertainties about the application of Title IX to the Fraternity. The practice was again prohibited across the board in 1985. Most chapters, however, were never able to initiate women. Before it could initiate any women, a chapter had to receive approval from our nationals. Approval was only given if the chapter was in real danger from the host institution as a result of only initiating men. Only 22 chapters were ever given permission to initiate women, and I don't think that all 22 of them actually did initiate women. A few of those 22 chapters wanted to continue as co-ed chapters after 1985 and withdrew (or, in one case, was expelled) from the Fraternity after the initiation of women was again prohibited.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by dukemama

Psi Upsilon has several coed chapters (the one at Duke was all-male while I was there, but went coed a few years ago). Other than that, though, I don't know of any others besides APO -- and that's considered a service fraternity rather than a social GLO.

Yup. and for the Alpha Phi Omega chapters in the USA, most of this discussion is of academic interest. I don't know of any APO (USA) brothers who have had a sex change operation. Only way that might be of interest is as a footnote, if a brother who joined back in the 1960s later went through a sex change operation and became (after the operation) the first brother to (later) be a woman.

As for Alpha Phi Omega in the Philippines, that National Organization runs more like Alpha Nu Omega in the USA does now, separate fraternity and sorority chapters at a school, but joined at the National Level. But the social pressures against sexual reassignment are *considerably* higher in the Philippines, so I wouldn't expect this to have happened.

Randy