Transgender students underrepresented in Greek life

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Transgender students underrepresented in Greek life

http://www.thedp.com/article/2015/09/transgender-students-underrepresented-in-greek-life

The Daily Pennsyvanian/By Dan Spinelli  09/21/2015

"More than 25 percent of Penn's undergraduates have gone Greek, but transgender students are few among them.

In interviews with Greek organization leaders, administrators and transgender students, the low representation was attributed to structural inequalities, slow institutional change and cultural norms.

The unwelcome ratio

Common aspects of Greek life, like ratios of women to men determining access to parties, marginalize genders outside of the male/female binary.

"I think that frats and sororities as a whole are stuck in very regressive gender roles," College senior Roderick Cook said."