This Sorority Wants To Include ‘Female-Identifying’ Men

A sorority at Tufts University is deciding whether to approve membership for a genetically male student who identifies as female. Its female-identifying female members do not seem pleased with the proposal to do so, however.

Tuft’s Alpha Omicron Pi first extended a membership to 19-year-old Harper Hopkins, a transgender student, but the sorority’s national office was reluctant to offer membership, saying it did not have a clear policy on admitting transgender members. Since the semester began, about 46 members of the sorority, including the president, have given up their memberships in protest of the international sorority’s delayed decision process.