The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) on Wednesday launched a national letter drive campaign that urges the National Panhellenic Conference’s (NPC) executives and leadership from the 26 sorority member organizations to keep sororities open only to women.
IWF’s “Tell National Panhellenic Conference And Sorority Leadership: Save Our Sisterhood” letter, first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation, urges sorority members to sign on to the campaign to protect sororities from biological males amidst a push by the NPC to allow men to join historically women-only spaces. The campaign has already garnered 1,000 letters from sorority women across the country.
“Today’s sororities were founded in the late 1800s when women were not openly welcomed in college settings,” the letter reads. “Sadly, the very organization whose mission has been to support and empower women through single sex environments, has turned its back on women in the name of social convenience.”
NPC in 2020 appointed several diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) consultants who pushed the sororities to begin allowing men who claim to be women into the organizations, IWF’s letter alleges. The DEI team intended to address “racism and racial injustice” and review policies that “significantly benefited white women and others with privilege,” according to their website.
A 2020 blog post by NPC titled “We Hear You And We Are Listening” also stated the organization intended to reconsider “norms and practices that create barriers facing potential members based on racial identity, ethnicity, LGBTQ identity, religious beliefs, ability and socioeconomic status, among others.”
Several chapters have since been forced to admit males.