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 Education Department 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-2, 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.