On November 8th, 2016, the transgender community’s worries about losing their hard fought acceptance into today’s society came to fruition. On this fateful day, the outcome of the United States’ election saw a Hillary Clinton upset and an unforeseen victory for, now president-elect, Donald Trump. Throughout Trump’s campaign, he openly discriminated and belittled the LGBTQ community, which was only further emphasized when he appointed anti-LGBTQ supporter, Mike Pence, as his running mate. His disdain toward President Barack Obama and his administration’s efforts to urge school systems to allow their transgender students to use bathrooms that conform with their sexual identity is a prime example of his stance on the very issues that trouble
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Assuming that the three sororities were acting out of a place of moral responsibility, regardless of the societal response, then they must of thought that all sororities should follow their lead, meaning that that all sorority chapters should grant acceptance of transgender women into their respective sisterhoods. However, if the previously mentioned sororities were only establishing guidelines that stated their impartiality to inviting transgender women into their social organizations as a means of gaining public adoration, then they should not have created such bylaws. According to Immanuel Kant, when self-interest enters a decision-making process, the motives of the being become immoral because they were not done solely on the basis of moral law. For example, if the self-interests of women of Delta Gamma, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Kappa Kappa Gamma, were involved in the thought-processes behind passing polices that comply with transgender acceptance, then they were not acting from a place of morality. This does not mean that the policies in and of themselves are bad, rather they lack the basis of moral judgement. Furthermore, if the 23 national …show more content…
Using Kant’s philosophy regarding the laws of nature, just as organisms need water and oxygen to survive, social interaction between living beings is essential to the human experience. Those who identify as transgender feel that joining fraternal organizations that consist of the gender they self-identify with will fill a void that has been created after years of social interaction with a sex they did not feel they were. From the trans-community’s viewpoint, it is their freedom and right as college students to join a Greek organization that has members of the sex they self-identify as. Freedom, in and of itself, exists through the establishment of laws which govern society, and in this scenario, Greek life. Therefore, the laws that prohibit transgender members from entering into non-LGBTQ fraternities or sororities, are what guide and promote freedom in these social organizations. Moreover, when applying Kant’s teachings on the laws of freedom, which govern the moral universe, to the previously mentioned viewpoint of the trans-community, it becomes clear that laws are necessary to promote freedom in societies, especially when analyzing the laws that govern the Greek community. Many fraternal groups have Christian principles embedded into their teachings which
Assuming that the three sororities were acting out of a place of moral responsibility, regardless of the societal response, then they must of thought that all sororities should follow their lead, meaning that that all sorority chapters should grant acceptance of transgender women into their respective sisterhoods. However, if the previously mentioned sororities were only establishing guidelines that stated their impartiality to inviting transgender women into their social organizations as a means of gaining public adoration, then they should not have created such bylaws. According to Immanuel Kant, when self-interest enters a decision-making process, the motives of the being become immoral because they were not done solely on the basis of moral law. For example, if the self-interests of women of Delta Gamma, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Kappa Kappa Gamma, were involved in the thought-processes behind passing polices that comply with transgender acceptance, then they were not acting from a place of morality. This does not mean that the policies in and of themselves are bad, rather they lack the basis of moral judgement. Furthermore, if the 23 national …show more content…
Using Kant’s philosophy regarding the laws of nature, just as organisms need water and oxygen to survive, social interaction between living beings is essential to the human experience. Those who identify as transgender feel that joining fraternal organizations that consist of the gender they self-identify with will fill a void that has been created after years of social interaction with a sex they did not feel they were. From the trans-community’s viewpoint, it is their freedom and right as college students to join a Greek organization that has members of the sex they self-identify as. Freedom, in and of itself, exists through the establishment of laws which govern society, and in this scenario, Greek life. Therefore, the laws that prohibit transgender members from entering into non-LGBTQ fraternities or sororities, are what guide and promote freedom in these social organizations. Moreover, when applying Kant’s teachings on the laws of freedom, which govern the moral universe, to the previously mentioned viewpoint of the trans-community, it becomes clear that laws are necessary to promote freedom in societies, especially when analyzing the laws that govern the Greek community. Many fraternal groups have Christian principles embedded into their teachings which