It Wasn’t Enough for Payton McNabb to Be Permanently Injured by a Male in Women’s Sports. Her Sorority Also Kicked Her Out.

Payton McNabb, the former high school volleyball player whose sports career was ruined after a male spiked the ball in her face, also faced punishment from her sorority for the crime of confronting a man who was using the women’s restroom.

McNabb’s story has gained more attention after President Donald Trump invited her to his speech to Congress Tuesday and after Senate Democrats voted against a bill to exclude men from women’s sports Monday. While the president noted McNabb’s tragic backstory, her sorority’s move against her has yet to be reported.

The sorority Delta Zeta expelled McNabb on May 20, 2024, finding her guilty of violating the sorority’s “Anti-Bullying Policy” and of engaging in “Moral-Prejudicial Conduct.” The bullying violation involves any activity “reasonably perceived as being dehumanizing, intimidating, hostile, threatening, or otherwise likely to evoke fear of physical harm or emotional distress.” The prejudicial conduct violation involves conduct that may bring the sorority “into disrepute.”

Her offense? Calmly confronting a man in a dress in a women’s restroom, recording him out of fear for her safety, and posting the video on X to warn other young women.

You can judge for yourself whether this involved any “bullying” or brought disrepute on the sorority.

“What are you doing?” McNabb asks the man.

“Going to the bathroom,” the man responds.

“Why are you in the girls’ bathroom?” she asks.

“Because I’m a trans girl,” the man says.

“I pay a lot of money to be safe in the bathroom,” McNabb notes.

The man calls her “rude.”

As he walks away from McNabb, the female student asks, “Do you think that’s okay?”

Delta Zeta’s chief learning officer, Will Frankenberger, a man who publicly espouses left-wing gender ideology, led the disciplinary hearing and all procedures. At one point, he said, “We’re just sorority sisters having a chat,” though he immediately added, “Well, not me. I think I’m a Delta Zeta, but I’m not.”

During the hearing, Frankenberger dismissed McNabb’s concerns about violations of her right to religious freedom and refused to answer her question about whether men who claim to be women can join the sorority.

“We’re not talking about any criminal statutes or civil statutes, we’re talking about Delta Zeta policies, which, on like the poll of priority, is way down here compared to criminal, civil or constitutional statutes,” he said.

Frankenberger noted McNabb’s question about “sincerely held religious belief exemptions to the disciplinary policy.” He flatly responded, “Nope, because Delta Zeta’s not a religious-based organization, nor are we a political-based organization; we are a group of girls that are friends, that’s it. So, some of those statutes in terms of constitutional right or things like that aren’t strict adherent.”

He also noted her question, “Does Delta Zeta allow men to identify as women to be members of the sorority?”

“I pulled the language of the constitution for membership eligibility it says, ‘Membership in Delta Zeta may be obtained only by initiation into a college chapter and it is only open to women who are matriculated students, former students and faculty of colleges and universities of recognized standing,’” Frankenberger said. He declined to define the word “woman.”

Delta Zeta expelled McNabb, despite overwhelming support from her local sorority chapter and despite her sincerely held religious beliefs that men are men and women are women.

This happened after McNabb, a talented volleyball player, was severely injured at 17 when a man who identifies as a woman spiked a kill shot directly to McNabb’s face, leaving her unconscious. She suffered a concussion, two black eyes, a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, and symptoms including partial paralysis and loss of peripheral vision on her right side, ongoing memory loss, confusion, loss of balance, and severe headaches.

This injury ended her dreams of playing college sports, but she found her college home and community in Delta Zeta.

In the expulsion, Delta Zeta showed no tolerance of McNabb’s views, and the leadership did not stand up for a sister or for basic biology—ensuring a man’s personal subjective feelings would prevail.

Frankenberger told her that her religious beliefs were irrelevant, cementing only Frankenberger’s and the Left’s highest “religious” virtue-signaling tenets are tolerated: All Genders are Whole, Holy, and Good.

What Orwellian nonsense.

The man McNabb encountered in the women’s restroom filed a Title IX complaint against her at her college—an ironic misuse of the law, which was written in 1972 to protect women. McNabb prevailed and was cleared of all charges.

McNabb is fighting back. She has been a guest on numerous national news outlets, advocating for women’s sports and single-sex spaces. She recently stood alongside President Trump as he signed his executive order “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports,” and she was Trump’s honored guest Tuesday night.

“I have seen firsthand a failure of leadership by individuals who are unable to define what a woman is,” McNabb told The Daily Signal. “I was forced to play sports against a man who ended my collegiate career. And then I was kicked out of my sorority when I objected to a man invading what should be a private place for a woman, a woman’s bathroom.”

“It is unfortunate that sororities have decided their mission is to serve a left-wing ideology and not a sisterhood,” she added.

McNabb is an outstanding example of a strong sorority woman: a courageous leader and woman of high character who stands up for women and freedom, no matter the obstacles. Delta Zeta could be celebrating their sister as an advocate for women’s rights on the national stage.

Instead, they chose to cower to the woke mob and take away sisterhood from a brave young woman who is so deserving.

Unfortunately, gender ideology has not only taken over Delta Zeta, but also the National Panhellenic Council. The NPC, the umbrella organization over fraternities and sororities across the country, allows men who identify as women to join female-only sororities, forcing radical and dangerous policies onto chapters who disagree.

Take note, NPC and national sorority leadership: it’s time for you to stand with women. Together, let’s return sororities to their founding principles—creating supportive, lifelong bonds of sisterhood among women.

Delta Zeta and Will Frankenberger did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal.

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