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Missouri Sorority Opens Doors To Transgender Students For First Time Ever

“When I proposed it to the chapter, there was no one against it."

Missouri State University sorority Xi Omicron Iota recently approved a change in its bylaws to allow transgender students who "identify as a girl" to pledge.

Sorority president Danielle Magquard said that the change, suggested by another member of the sorority, was enthusiastically embraced by the other sisters.

“It passed with flying colors," noted vice president, Liz Lersch.

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“Transgender equality is a hot topic right now and it’s something everyone is paying attention to,” Marquard told the Springfield News-Leader. “We have a lot of open and welcoming women in the chapter.”

The change took effect immediately after a vote on August 30 and was made public last week, just days ahead of the sorority’s fall recruitment push yesterday, however the sorority does not yet have a transgender member (though Lersch said she received a note from a transgender woman thanking her for the policy change).

“We just want to be as inclusive as possible to all women on the Missouri State campus,” Lersch told the paper.

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