Elliot Draznin will lead the SAEPi sorority at the University of Cincinnati.
Friendly Atheist writes:
Elliot Draznin is nonbinary and uses the pronoun “they”. [...]
In August, SAEPi, which was founded in 1998 and has 23 chapters and colonies across the country, changed its policy to make it clear that transgender and gender nonconforming people are welcomed as members. [...]
A small but steadily increasing number of fraternities and sororities have also been opening up their leadership positions to the trans community, while others have amended their guidelines to include trans membership.
It’s especially worth noting in this case that trans people still face hostility in conservative and Orthodox factions of Judaism, but the Reform Jewish community has been the most welcoming. Recently, the Union for Reform Judaism released guidelines for how to perform a gender-nonbinary B’nei Mitzvah: the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony.
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