FFS Friday: >450 KKG Alumni

May 17, 2024

FFS (Female Free Speech) Friday honors women and girls who are speaking out about the harms of “gender identity” to women and girls as a sex class. Today’s FFS Friday honors the more than 450 alumni of Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) who are speaking out in support of the plaintiffs in Westenbroek v. KKG.

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It is our job as alumni to make certain that these women have a secure, private place while they’re in college, where they can develop their skills. And not be surrounded by men who pretend to be women.

Last year, a group of six women sued their sorority, KKG, because KKG had admitted a man. A federal district court dismissed their complaint, and they took the matter up to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. That’s where a group of more than 450 KKG alumni filed an amicus brief to support them. The brief is available here.

When I initially read the brief, I was astonished. As a radical feminist who has been fighting the onslaught of “gender identity,” for nearly ten years, I am used to feeling like I’m screaming into a void. I suspect most of us do. So when I read the brief and saw that more than 450 women were willing to put their names on it, I almost fell down.

The alumni women called the sorority’s admission of a man and the District Court’s dismissal of the case a “severe blow to women's rights." The brief continues:

"The upshot of redefining 'woman' to include man is the effective erasure of women as a separate class worthy of dignity and respect. Defendants silenced the voices of the thousands of KKG women entitled to have a say in this transformation."

The brief contains the personal stories of several individual alumni women, many of whom said that living in a female-only environment while in college helped them heal from sexual assault and trauma.

I reached out to the attorney for these women, who put me in touch with a few of them directly. We have had several Zoom meetings throughout the past few months and I was proud to stand with them outside the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals this past Tuesday, while the court was hearing oral arguments in the matter.

One of the signatories of the brief is a woman named Cheryl Tuck-Smith, who had been a KKG member for over 53 years. But after she spoke out in support of the plaintiffs, KKG unceremoniously revoked her life-time membership.

Cheryl spoke out during a press conference following oral arguments in the case this past Tuesday. Following some introductory remarks, this is what she had to say:

… At the time, I had been a member of Kappa for fifty-three years. I’m just a young chicken, you know! But I’d been around fifty-three years in Kappa. And for the audacity that I had to speak out, Kappa’s kicked me out.
But you know what they did? They fueled the fire. I am not giving up. I am backing these women, and I will continue to fight! Because it is our job as alumni to make certain that these women have a secure, private place while they’re in college, where they can develop their skills. And not be surrounded by men who pretend to be women.
Thank you and keep up the fight!

To the more than 450 KKG alumni who signed that brief in support of the Westenbroek plaintiffs: Thank you. Today’s FFS Friday is for you.