{"id":112261,"date":"2022-08-17T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=112261"},"modified":"2022-08-17T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:20:11","slug":"transgender-student-rejected-from-every-sorority-at-university-of-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/transgender-student-rejected-from-every-sorority-at-university-of-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender student rejected from every sorority at University of Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>\u2018Unfortunately this chapter is closed,\u2019 the student wrote<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>None of the 19 sororities at the University of Alabama were interested in having a male student named Grant Sikes join them this year.<\/p>\n<p>The student, who uses \u201cshe\/her\u201d pronouns, called the decisions \u201cextremely upsetting\u201d and \u201csad\u201d in a TikTok video, where Sikes had been documenting the sorority application journey.<\/p>\n<p>Sikes (<em>pictured<\/em>) wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/ChNP2kcOYap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a note<\/a> on Instagram:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First and foremost, I would like to thank my family, friends and everyone who has come along during this journey with me. From the thousands of messages to meeting the funniest people, I had the best time.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately this chapter is closed. This recruitment journey is over for me. Being dropped from my last house this morning during primary recruitment at the University of Alabama doesn&#8217;t come as a surprise considering out of the almost 20 chapters I was dropped by every single one except 2 before day 1: Gamma Phi Beta and Kappa Alpha Theta.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hopeful for a future where everyone is welcomed for just being themselves \u2014everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;If you are going through a hard time today, remember that life is too short to ponder on the things lost. Choose happiness &amp; always look for the positive things throughout life,&#8221; Sikes wrote further.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Move on. See the good. See the bad. Hope for the best. Brave the worst,&#8221; the student wrote in the Instagram letter.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"rumble\" src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embed\/v1dpflf\/?pub=gavb5\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSikes had generated millions of views on TikTok during Alabama Rush Week by documenting the recruitment journey,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/transgender-student-rejected-every-university-alabama-sorority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. \u201cSikes is not the first transgender student to be rejected from Greek Life. Adam Davies was rejected from all 12 sororities at Northwestern University, according to the New York Post.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/joan-of-arc-elizabeth-i-may-not-have-identified-as-women-scholar-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joan of Arc may not have identified as a woman, scholar argues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Grant Sikes\/Instagram<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Unfortunately this chapter is closed,\u2019 the student wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1171,"featured_media":112263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[46008,46007,12063,16878,969],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/GrantSikes.Instagram72.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-tcF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112267,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112261\/revisions\/112267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}