Celebrating Pride: LGBTQIA+ Voices in Kappa Kappa Psi

Yeah.

So the first question we asked was, do you feel comfortable being fully yourself within the fraternity? Why or why not?

Let's see.

Nice to see that a majority of responses had some sort of positive reflection on that.

Either yes or I do.

Yeah, for the most part, everyone said yes.

The only people who maybe felt more no, I think, isn't necessarily fraternity specific, but rather just in general and just society.

So I can understand that.

There was one in here I highlighted that I thought would be really interesting to bring up.

So the response says yes, although having to register on Opus with my legal name made me a bit uncomfortable as the executive board could see my dead name.

Other than that, everything and everyone has been more than supportive.

And I highlighted that because I just thought it was, it was important to kind of bring that up because I think that's something that even I hadn't really thought about, um, that people do run into, you know, when you have to use your legal dead name.

Um, you know, how does that affect, you know, having to register? How does that affect what's on your membership cards or your membership? Um, things that you get so i thought that was kind of important to bring up i think there was one other response somewhere later one of the other questions that was sort of played off this but um yeah i think that could be an interesting point to maybe try to bring up at some point to headquarter staff or um maybe nick or something and say hey you know have we ever thought about how we want to approach this sort of situation

yeah i don't i don't have i much to go off of but similar stuff happens at my workplace too where like legally there has to be a name registered in their database um and the unfortunate thing might be that maybe as an individual haven't had an opportunity or were allowed to or otherwise like able to switch that name legally um so it is kind of like a rock and a hard place i feel like because it's some some facet of society right now we haven't quite gotten to that point where it's quick and easy you know what i mean yeah um because i feel like your legal name is kind of like one of the most important things about your identity um to the sense that if you want to uh you know change that It takes a little bit of time just because of all the hoops and bounds you got to go through.

Oh,

yeah.

But I agree.

I

mean, even when it's not related to anything with, you know, gender identity or anything like that, even just people who change their names, you know, because they want it to match maybe an adopted parent's name or they get a divorce or they get married or something, like ...

even that's like five million hoops to jump through like it's just a difficult process in general um so yeah it's definitely like you said rock in a hard place

i wouldn't know like how to go about even tackling that myself but that's a that's definitely something that um should be consideration that's uh yeah i like that you pointed out that that response

Yeah, because I can understand the need for some sort of legal name and databases and stuff like that.

But I do think it's also important to have your chosen name be represented on things.

If I were to change my name for some reason, I would love to have...

You know, my membership card or my membership materials represent that name.

Yeah.

So the first question we asked was, do you feel comfortable being fully yourself within the fraternity? Why or why not?

Let's see.

Nice to see that a majority of responses had some sort of positive reflection on that.

Either yes or I do.

Yeah, for the most part, everyone said yes.

The only people who maybe felt more no, I think, isn't necessarily fraternity specific, but rather just in general and just society.

So I can understand that.

There was one in here I highlighted that I thought would be really interesting to bring up.

So the response says yes, although having to register on Opus with my legal name made me a bit uncomfortable as the executive board could see my dead name.

Other than that, everything and everyone has been more than supportive.

And I highlighted that because I just thought it was, it was important to kind of bring that up because I think that's something that even I hadn't really thought about, um, that people do run into, you know, when you have to use your legal dead name.

Um, you know, how does that affect, you know, having to register? How does that affect what's on your membership cards or your membership? Um, things that you get so i thought that was kind of important to bring up i think there was one other response somewhere later one of the other questions that was sort of played off this but um yeah i think that could be an interesting point to maybe try to bring up at some point to headquarter staff or um maybe nick or something and say hey you know have we ever thought about how we want to approach this sort of situation

yeah i don't i don't have i much to go off of but similar stuff happens at my workplace too where like legally there has to be a name registered in their database um and the unfortunate thing might be that maybe as an individual haven't had an opportunity or were allowed to or otherwise like able to switch that name legally um so it is kind of like a rock and a hard place i feel like because it's some some facet of society right now we haven't quite gotten to that point where it's quick and easy you know what i mean yeah um because i feel like your legal name is kind of like one of the most important things about your identity um to the sense that if you want to uh you know change that It takes a little bit of time just because of all the hoops and bounds you got to go through.

Oh,

yeah.

But I agree.

I

mean, even when it's not related to anything with, you know, gender identity or anything like that, even just people who change their names, you know, because they want it to match maybe an adopted parent's name or they get a divorce or they get married or something, like ...

even that's like five million hoops to jump through like it's just a difficult process in general um so yeah it's definitely like you said rock in a hard place

i wouldn't know like how to go about even tackling that myself but that's a that's definitely something that um should be consideration that's uh yeah i like that you pointed out that that response

Yeah, because I can understand the need for some sort of legal name and databases and stuff like that.

But I do think it's also important to have your chosen name be represented on things.

If I were to change my name for some reason, I would love to have...

You know, my membership card or my membership materials represent that name.