Chen was ultimately drawn to Delta Phi Epsilon after learning about the sorority’s explicit inclusion policy for nonbinary members and the international organization’s motto: “To be, rather than to seem to be.” Leaders at Delta Phi Epsilon’s headquarters created the policy after a nonbinary student was prevented from joining the chapter on campus by an umbrella group for sororities at MIT. The policy said nonbinary people “may be included as members in all areas of the organization, provided that they accept and share in the collective values and experiences of the sisterhood.”
Twenty-five other national and international sororities, members of the National Panhellenic Conference, or NPC, an umbrella organization that governs the policies and practices of the sororities, are planning to meet Saturday to decide whether to follow Delta Phi Epsilon and vote to approve an amendment permitting the member sororities to change their definitions of “woman,” to ensure nonbi
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