Posted on 10/18/2016 10:33:43 PM PDT by Morgana
Iam the first transgender woman to rush sororities at the University of Michigan," Emily Kaufman captioned a selfie on Tumblr in September 2015, "and because I am representing trans people, looking cute is a must!" She wore her dark, naturally curly hair in a bob; a dainty silver necklace with starfish charms hung around her neck.
Emily is bubbly and chatty and, as a sophomore, already had friends in a few of the sororities. After 18 years of what she calls “suppressed femininity,” Emily started coming out to friends and family during her freshman year; she’d spoken about her transition in classes and LGBT groups on campus. On the first day of rush, a sister in one house approached her and said, "You were in my women’s studies class! I think it’s so amazing what you’re doing. I really hope your rush process goes well."
"I was all excited," Emily remembers. "I called my parents and said, ’I’m totally joining a sorority.’"
After round one, a dizzying tour of the stately brick mansions that house Michigan’s 15 NPC sororities, Emily could have been invited back to as many as 11 for round two, per the rules of the university’s Panhellenic Council, which governs sorority life on campus. Many of Emily’s friends were called back to seven or more sororities. Emily was only asked back to three. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
“From what my friends told me, basically the rush board for that sorority [made up of 21- to 22-year-old women] chooses most of the girls,” Emily says. With no guidelines on transgender members from their national leadership, all it takes is one or two students on the rush board to say, "We don’t want a trans girl," to exclude even the most beloved rushee.
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You make an excellent point chillingly.
Silence of the Lambs comes to mind.
Heshe would be rejected for always leaving the seat up.
LOL! And if the tranny didn’t tell anyone heshe was one, that would be a dead giveaway!
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