Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) — a sorority that claims to “unite women to learn, grow and inspire positive change throughout their lives” — may soon claim the dubious distinction of becoming the first sorority to elect a dude as the president of its national organization, according to a lawsuit filed by angry longtime KKG alumnae.
The sorority sisters filed the suit on Thursday over the organization’s “diversity and inclusion” commitment to accepting “individuals who identify as women” as members.
“The Candidate has currently applied for, and is being considered for, a position in leadership to be voted on through an on-line election in April 2024,” the lawsuit reads, according to the Daily Wire. “This position could include being elected to Fraternity Council or even president of KKG. Most members remain unaware that the Candidate is a man.”
Tracy Nadzieja — a man — was “elected as district director out of Arizona State University (ASU) in 2022,” the Wire reports. “KKG accepted Nadzieja as an alumna initiate in 2020, becoming the sorority’s first male member.”
In 2018, Nadzieja scored another first when he was appointed to the Maricopa County Superior Court in 2018, making him Arizona’s first transgender judicial officer.
Prior to his transition, Nadzieja was a Sigma Pi frat boy while attending ASU for his undergraduate degree.
He also serves as “a board member for one-n-ten, a Phoenix-based nonprofit focused on advancing LGBTQ ideologies in minors and youths,” according to the Daily Wire. “One-n-ten offered a peer support program to children undergoing gender transitions at Phoenix Children’s Hospital.”
To live his life as “Tracy,” Nadzieja ditched his children and his wife of 15 years.
“I just have to face it and if that means that I get kicked out of my house, that my marriage is over, that I won’t have a relationship with my kids, I would rather have an authentic life despite losing everything that I had worked for for my whole life,” Nadzieja told Greek University.
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Nadzieja didn’t meet KKG’s qualifications as laid out in its bylaws when he was “fast-tracked” to a leadership position and named an advisor at a university chapter, according to the lawsuit, filed on behalf of KKG alumnae Patsy Levang, Cheryl Tuck-Smith, Susan Jennings, Margo Knorr, Karen Pope, and Ann Witt.
What’s more, KKG Fraternity Council “deceptively misrepresented” Nadzieja as a woman who was qualified for a leadership position, the lawsuit alleges.
“Fraternity Council intentionally concealed this fact from members to ensure the Candidate was elected,” it states.
The alumnae are being represented by the Independent Women’s Law Center (IWLC), which is tied to the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF).
Levang, a former National Foundation President for KKG, and Tuck-Smith were kicked out of the sorority by national leadership after more than 50 years of membership each. Their crime? They spoke out against allowing men to join their sisterhood.
“The current leadership in Kappa has deliberately engaged in a campaign to undermine the Bylaws of Kappa which harms not only these young women, but the entire organization,” Levang said in an ILWC press release announcing the lawsuit. “I’m not surprised that they also disregarded the value of lifetime membership and my 56 years of dedication by sending me a removal letter.”
“It is incomprehensible that current leadership would discard that success by prioritizing men over women,” Tuck-Smith said. “Kappa must remain true to its existing mission, to support and promote women.”
“The alumnae’s lawsuit accused KKG officials of violating the organization’s governing rules, engaging in fraudulent activity, violating free speech laws, committing defamation, and breaching contracts,” the Daily Wire reports. “KKG bylaws, rules, and policies all declare that only women may have membership in the organization, while implementing strict prohibitions against the involvement of men.”
“Kappa leadership continues to disrespect its members not only by denying them the single-sex organization they were promised, but by lashing out in hopes of silencing the truth,” said ILWC counsel May Mailman.
In August, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by KKG sorority sisters, including Levang and Tuck-Smith, over the admittance of Artemis Langford to the Wyoming chapter.
Langford was described as a “peeping” transgender who would make inappropriate comments and stare at the KKG women for hours, sometimes with an erection.
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