Fraternity helps raise funds for brother’s transgender surgery

Being a Sigma Chi brother from the long gone Psi Psi chapter at Syracuse University, I’m pretty aware of the upside of being a fraternity brother.  There’s a kind of “instant” family when you become a brother, and often those ties extend way into adult life.

When I was at Syracuse, I was just beginning to travel down the road of my life as a gay man.  So, I wasn’t a “gay frat brother” during my time there.  It wasn’t a part of that journey, although I had some great times and certainly felt that sense of “brotherhood” that gets talked about so often in Greek life.

Today, however, I read this very cool story about transgendered sophomore Donnie Collins at Emerson College and his brothers at Phi Alpha Tau.  Collins realized he was transgendered when he was 17, and has since been struggling to handle the finances of his transition from female to male.