A Victory for Sororities: DOE Rules Sororities Are for Women Only

It turns out, sororities are for women after all.

The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights just affirmed what every sorority woman in America knew the first time she walked into her chapter—a sorority is for women.

In a statement that would’ve been self-evident five minutes ago—just as it was over a century ago when sororities were first formed—the department announced: “A sorority that admits male students is no longer a sorority by definition and thus loses the Title IX statutory exemption for a sorority’s single-sex membership practices.”

Translation: If you let men in, you’re not a women’s organization anymore. You’re just another coed club—one that fails to understand basic biology and forces radical leftist groupthink on its female members.

In the same announcement, the Department of Education also declared June as Title IX Month, “in honor of the fifty-third anniversary of Title IX of the Educational Amendments (1972) being signed into law. June will now be dedicated to commemorating women and celebrating their struggle for, and achievement of, equal educational opportunity.”

What better way to kick it off than by reaffirming that Title IX was written to protect women—not radical gender ideologies. While not a new law, this DOE clarification carries enormous weight—it reaffirms the long-standing legal basis for single-sex sororities under Title IX.

 Unfortunately, the National Panhellenic Conference, the umbrella organization over sororities nationwide—and the national sorority leadership of every one of the 26 national sororities have fallen prey to the same woke mind virus that has inundated our entire culture. They all allow men who identify as women to join our female-only sororities, forcing radical and dangerous policies onto chapters and loyal alumnae who disagree.

A Case in Point

In 2022, Kappa Kappa Gamma’s national leadership forced its University of Wyoming chapter to accept Artemis Langford, a 6-foot-two, 260-pound man, despite the protests of women in the house. When some brave sorority members took legal action, they were dismissed as bigots.

The message was chilling: If you’re a woman standing up for women, you’re the problem.

According to court documents, multiple female collegiate sorority members testified that Langford would linger in common areas in the KKG house, stare at them, and become visibly aroused.

To add insult to injury, the activist judge told the young women they had no right to define what “woman” even means in their own sorority. National KKG’s own attorney claimed “[the word] ‘women’ is unquestionably not defined … and unquestionably has multiple meanings.” What insane Orwellian doublespeak.

The DOE Office for Civil Rights is now rightly investigating the University of Wyoming for “allegedly allowing males to join and live in female-only intimate and communal spaces.”

For years now, a small but quickly-growing army of sorority women across the country—mothers, professionals, sisters, and friends—have watched in disbelief as the National Panhellenic Conference and national sorority leadership cast aside women who dared to say what biology, common sense, and the law have always affirmed: Men do not belong in women’s spaces.

Here’s What We’ve Seen

—We watched as Kappa Kappa Gamma expelled two loyal alumnae for objecting to a man being admitted as a sister. Patsy Levang and Cheryl Tuck-Smith, two members of Kappa Kappa Gamma for over 50 years? Booted from the organization for opposing their sorority’s decision to admit trans identifying men.

—We watched Phi Mu do the same. Phi Mu alumnae Michele Bunker, Carolyn Cook Maiden, Carolyn Carroll Neese, Stephanie Mire Theriot? Stripped of their membership after defending the sorority’s single-sex status and posting about their Christian faith.

—We watched as Payton McNabb—the young woman permanently injured by a trans-identifying male volleyball player—was kicked out of Delta Zeta for daring to confront a man wearing a dress in the women’s restroom on her college campus of Western Carolina University. And then, the man in the dress inexplicably brought a Title IX complaint against Payton. Thankfully, she and sanity prevailed.

—Emily Hines of Louisiana State University? Kicked out of Alpha Phi after posting a TikTok questioning the current cultural obsession with gender identity and criticizing then-Assistant Secretary for Health Rachael Levine for his “transgender” identity.

—In an unbelievable twist of Orwellian nonsense, Chi Omega expelled a man from their sorority—not because he is a man—but because he “identified” as nonbinary and not as a woman.

And there are many more.

What did National Panhellenic Conference and our national sorority leaders say? Nothing—except to continue to enforce silence, groupthink, and DEI compliance.

A Turning Point

But today, we mark a turning point, because the truth doesn’t bend. Biology is real. And women will no longer be silenced.

Here’s the reality: Title IX has had a carve-out for single-sex organizations almost from its inception. That means sororities and fraternities have a legal right to exist as women-only and men-only spaces. But if you start letting men who “identify as women” into the sisterhood, you forfeit that protection. The colleges and universities that support you are now on notice: support a sorority that admits men, and you lose the legal exception.

It’s a seismic pronouncement to National Panhellenic Conference and national sorority leadership—and a lifeline to women who simply want a women’s only space.

Because let’s be honest: Many thought our sororities were lost. Many assumed the national leadership was too far gone, too captured by the radical left, their policies too politicized, and the traditions we loved too far removed from reality and our founding ideals to ever recover.

But this announcement is another crack in the leftist takeover of women’s safe spaces. It’s proof that truth still matters. That women still matter.

So, to all alumnae who walked away in frustration and disbelief: please come back and join us in the fight. If you’re not involved, get involved. If you lost faith, reengage.

This is the moment to fight for who we are—and for what we stand for: Sisterhood.

It’s Time to Stand With Women

And to National Panhellenic Conference and national sorority leadership: It’s time you stand with women. Get your politics out of our sororities and return our organizations to their founding principles—creating supportive, lifelong bonds of sisterhood among women.

Sororities were meant to empower women—not silence them, not replace them, and certainly not betray them.

National Panhellenic Conference, you have betrayed us all.

And to the rest of the country: This isn’t just a sorority issue. It’s a women’s rights issue. A truth issue. A Title IX issue. It’s about whether women have any spaces left that are truly their own. And this fight isn’t over. We need action from Congress, courage in state legislatures, and boldness from all of us—speaking up loudly.

Because what happened in Wyoming and Jefferson County—where girls were told they didn’t matter—should never happen again. What happened to Payton McNabb, to the KKG and Phi Mu alumnae, and to countless others silenced and slandered—should never happen again.

Finally, we say thank you. Thank you to the DOE Office for Civil Rights for exposing the Biden administration’s legacy of undermining Title IX and the civil rights of women and girls across this country.

This has been a long-fought win. We’ll take it. And we’re only getting started.

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