Half the members of Tuft University's Alpha Omicron Pi sorority have quit in protest after the organization questioned a trans recruit's true gender.

According to NECN, Alpha Omicron Pi voted unanimously in September to extend a bid to a transgender recruit, but were met with opposition from the national organization's head chapter in Tennessee.

Fall recruit Kristin Reeves told the station that sorority members were then informed the organization would be at risk of losing its Title 9 status as a single-sex organization if a transgender woman were admitted.

In response, Reeves and 46 other members of Tuft's Alpha Omicron Pi chapter quit the campus sorority in protest.

The national organization maintained in an official statement that it "at no point" threatened disciplinary action against sorority members or threatened to sue them, as Reeves claims.

It did also eventually allow the transgender recruit to join after determining their Title 9 status would be unaffected.

"We're hoping to move on from this event and that we will come with a very well-researched and organized policy in the future," spokesperson Courtney West said in a statement.