WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Independent Women has launched a new campaign in its work to keep sororities female, announcing a “Tell National Panhellenic Conference And Sorority Leadership: Save Our Sisterhood” letter drive for collegiate and alumnae sorority women to urge the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) and its 26 sorority member organizations to return to their original purpose: advocating for and defending women-only membership. 

The executive leaders of NPC and each national sorority have already received 1,000 personalized letters from sorority women across the country. Independent Women hopes the campaign will draw tens of thousands more sorority women to join the movement to stand up for sisterhood and send personalized letters through the campaign to demand change ahead of NPC sorority conventions this summer.

Independent Women’s letter drive responds to the growing infiltration of DEI inside NPC that has trickled down to its member organizations. As a part of the implementation of the NPC’s updated 2024 MOI recruitment policy, which expands membership to anyone who “consistently lives and self-identifies as a woman” – aka men, every sorority member organization has quietly changed their membership policy stated on their website to allow men who identify as women into their female-only sisterhood. 

The letter states, in part:

We call on NPC and all NPC sororities to return to their stated missions of advocating for women and vigorously defending their right to provide a single-sex environment. We call on NPC and all NPC sororities to remove attempted alterations to member eligibility and instead proudly say no to men in women’s spaces. Our predecessors fought too hard for us to throw it all away.

The release of the letter also comes on the heels of the Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma appeal to the Tenth Circuit in 2024, led by Independent Women, after female students at the University of Wyoming were forced to initiate a male into their all-female sorority. National attention and interest in the case showcased widespread support across the political spectrum for women’s rights to privacy and safety in a single-sex environment. 

By refusing to clearly define the word ‘woman’ as used in its own bylaws, Kappa Kappa Gamma leadership and the National Panhellenic Conference, which filed a brief in support of Kappa, denied women the single-sex sisterhood they were promised. 

Allie Coghan, Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma plaintiff and Independent Women ambassador: “It is our duty to hold NPC accountable for their actions. They have robbed us of the sisterhood we were promised when we joined. This is supposed to be something that ‘never happens’ and if it can happen in Wyoming, then it can happen anywhere. All 26 NPC sororities need to recognize what is happening and stand up for women. NPC needs to return to its original mission and support women before there is no Greek life left. After all NPC is nothing without its members.”

Jaylyn Westenbroek, Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma plaintiff and Independent Women ambassador: “NPC promises within their mission statement to preserve a women’s only sorority experience. It’s time to hold them to their own values of what has been promised to every member. These women’s only spaces can only be preserved if NPC steps up to recognize real women.”

Hannah Holtmeier, Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma plaintiff, Independent Women ambassador, and senior at the University of Nebraska Lincoln: “Sororities were created to give women a place on college campuses. By allowing men to invade sororities we are taking a step backwards and robbing women of all the opportunities that come from being a member. I’ve grown and learned so much from being in Kappa and it’s sad to think about young girls not getting the chance to experience Greek Life like I have.”

Maddie Ramar, Westenbroek v. Kappa Kappa Gamma plaintiff and Independent Women ambassador: “When I first joined Kappa Kappa Gamma, I was promised sisterhood, safety, and tradition. But when men are allowed to live in our sorority house—violating our privacy and occupying the spaces where women are meant to feel most secure—those promises are broken. Women deserve spaces that are truly our own. If this can happen to Kappa, under NPC’s own policy influence, it can happen to any sorority. If the NPC won’t uphold its mission to protect and empower women, then who will?”

Daily Caller covered this story exclusively HERE.

The letter drive can be found HERE.

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