Sorority members quit over transgender recruit controversy

MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Half the members of a sorority at Tufts University have quit in protest to their national organization's opposition to a transgender recruit.

The New England Cable News reports (http://bit.ly/2fwG87m) about 46 members of the Delta chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi left the sorority in October after the national headquarters discovered the unnamed candidate was a transgender woman.

Former sorority president Kristin Reeves told the news station the national headquarters warned the chapter it was risking its Title 9 status as a single sex organization.

The Tennessee-based sorority says at "at no point" did it threaten disciplinary or legal action and that it eventually reconsidered its opposition.

The student, meanwhile, penned an op-ed in the student newspaper Monday about the experience. A university spokesperson said Tufts supports allowing transgender students in sororities and fraternities.

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