@TeamRocketGrunt Start posting in College Life more, I remember you from the HS section
ETA: And for people reading in the future, that’s a valid question. Physical attractiveness plays a huge role in getting a bid.
@Vctory Lolz. I think I remember you too, friendo.
Ill give a simple answer cause this thread peaked my interest. IF you are interested in greek life then make sure you really like the org you are joining. Dont worry what other frats or sororities are doing. Your org might not participate in that kind of thing and if you dont like any orgs then you start your own chapter of an existing outside organization. Greek life isnt for everybody but you wont know if its for you unless you give it a chance!
I have a question. How difficult is it to join a sorority if you’re transgender. I mean, I don’t want to reveal too much, but does anyone have any input on this? Thanks.
My sorority sort of dealt with that situation this year. Long story short, we had a biologically male student who identified as gender queer try to join our sorority. We decided that had this person identified as a woman in a man’s body, the person would be let in. However, because this person didn’t and didn’t identify with a particular gender we decided not to admit the genderqueer individual.
That being said, my sorority is very liberal regarding who gets in. As a transgender it will likely be much tougher for you to join a chapter.
Mini rant, why are there no national social co-ed fraternities?
There are a handful (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_fraternities_and_sororities#Coeducational_fraternities) but obviously none of them are anywhere as big as the greek orgs most of us are used to seeing.
We had a member attend the Out & Greek conference (http://www.campuspride.org/lambda10/outgreek/) and brought back with him that we should have the discussion of how to handle trans men since we had never thought about it. Like whenhen’s org, we decided that anyone who identified and lived full time as a man would be considered for a bid regardless of genitalia.
I don’t want to paint too much of an optimistic picture though. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m guessing whenhen’s and my chapters are very much in the minority.
Depending on where you go to school, there might be LGBT specific greek orgs too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBT_and_LGBT-friendly_fraternities_and_sororities Some on that list aren’t really college orgs (e.g. Alpha Lambda Zeta) while others are (e.g. Gamma Rho Lambda)
I would think that if someone was LGBTQA and interested in Greek life, they would target colleges that had co-ed fraternities available.
I know MIT has them, a friend who was straight then decided she was gay went there and found it instrumental in helping decide who she was (she dated both men and women at MIT, but hasn’t dated any men since she started dating women).
I think of it like religion - there are Mormon HS students who want to go to BYU (95% Mormon) because they feel they would fit in best there. And University of Utah is 40% Mormon, so a choice for someone who feels they need the community but not as much.
http://gawker.com/5655407/the-top-10-colleges-for-gay-students
http://www.campusprideindex.org/
Then all you need to do is find out how many of them have a strong Greek presence - strong LGBTQA presence + strong Greek presence = at least some Greek organizations that welcome LGBTQA members
I know some sororities that would sooner welcome a guy who dresses very nice as a woman then a girl who doesn’t care about her appearance…