(OPINION) ETH – A sorority at Louisiana State University has reportedly booted a dues-paying member after she posted a TikTok criticizing transgender ideology. According to the report, the girl named Emily Hines was removed from The Delta Tau chapter of Alpha Phi at LSU after being terminated for posting a TikTok that the chapter deemed “political.”
The report reveals that the seven-second video in question, which has been removed by TikTok used a Bee Gees song, “More Than a Woman” and featured a photo of Rachel Levine, the transgender U.S. assistant secretary for health. After Emily posted the video, she reportedly received an email and text from a fellow member of her sorority informing her that the video was in violation of their policy.
Rules of the sorority that are made public state that sisters are given 12 hours to take down the post before being summoned to a judiciary board hearing. It was then that Emily was given 4.5 hours instead, and was then summoned to the hearing, where she was then terminated from the sorority 72 hours later. Hines told YAF that she was “upset” at the “hypocrisy and one-sidedness” of the events that took place.
“The way this situation unfolded has been absolutely ridiculous. My religious beliefs have been pushed under the rug because the social construct of gender has become such a big issue,” Hines said. “My faith teaches me that God made male and female in his image and that one cannot become the other. Members of the executive board told me my video was ‘widely viewed as…’ but how people perceive things is not my issue, in fact, that’s what makes our country diverse. We’re not all identical and all have different beliefs.”
