‘BLATANTLY LYING’: Payton McNabb Responds After Sorority CEO Claims DZ Didn’t Expel Her Over Transgender Issues

Cindy Menges, CEO of the sorority that expelled Payton McNabb for posting a video of herself confronting a man in a women’s bathroom, attempted to reframe the issue in response to sorority sisters’ outrage.

Menges claimed the expulsion had “nothing to do” with McNabb’s “advocacy for banning trans-athletes from sports,” and that “Delta Zeta Sorority did not remove Payton from membership for confronting a Western Carolina student in a women’s restroom, regardless of what social media and the story presents” (emphasis original).

She suggested that The Daily Signal’s op-ed on the story was misleading. She added, however, that “we are committed to uphold the confidentiality and privacy of any active or inactive member and so we therefore do not make statements involving members no matter how misleading the story/headline.”

When approached for comment, Delta Zeta reiterated its commitment to confidentiality.

McNabb, a Western Carolina University student who attended President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress last month, called Menges’s claims “completely not true.” She noted that Delta Zeta referred to the male McNabb confronted as a “girl.”

“I just can’t. None of that is even, that’s just not even true at all, she’s blatantly lying,” she told The Daily Signal.

“My email that says why I got kicked out, it starts off saying why and they refer to him as a girl and go on about what I did and how horrible it was and that’s literally why I got kicked out,” McNabb added. “I don’t know how they can even deny that.”

What Happened?

McNabb has become an advocate against gender ideology after a male competing in high school women’s volleyball spiked the ball in her face when she was 17. She suffered a brain bleed, a concussion, and permanent whiplash from the incident, and later experienced partial paralysis, vision impairment, and more. The incident dashed her dreams of playing college softball.

She told The Daily Signal that she still suffers from the incident, experiencing headaches and other lingering effects.

Last May, she saw a man in the women’s restroom at her North Carolina university and confronted him.

“It was awful. I come out of my bathroom and then I see a fully-grown … almost 30-year-old—man in the bathroom with me with a dress on,” she told The Daily Signal. “I completely froze, I felt so incredibly uncomfortable. I could not believe that this was happening to me.”

“We always have little girls coming in and out of that bathroom because it was in the dining hall,” she added. “We’re in a public university, how am I supposed to know what his intentions were?”

“I videoed it for my safety and then I posted it for awareness,” McNabb explained.

“I got kicked out of my sorority, they wasted no time, for sure,” she told The Daily Signal.

The very next day, Delta Zeta sent McNabb an email.

“Payton McNabb recorded another girl in the bathroom without her consent on campus which during that recording was asking her invasive questions about her identity and followed her out of the restroom,” the email stated.

The email announced that Delta Zeta would hold a meeting with McNabb on May 5. During that meeting, the sorority’s chief learning officer 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.

The sorority expelled McNabb on May 20, finding her guilty of violating the sorority’s “Anti-Bullying Policy” and of engaging in “Moral-Prejudicial Conduct.”

Menges’ Response

After The Daily Signal’s story, a Delta Zeta alumna from Texas A&M University sent Delta Zeta CEO Cindy Menges an email condemning the sorority’s apparent support for gender ideology.

“By condemning Payton, you are quite literally telling our younger generations not to listen to their guts, to the news, to their mothers and grandmothers,” the alumna wrote. “You are telling our young women that it’s not OK to protect themselves!”

This email elicited Menges’ response that the expulsion had nothing to do with gender ideology.

When The Daily Signal reached out for comment, asking Menges what she claimed was misleading about the initial story, Menges reiterated the sorority’s commitment to privacy.

“Delta Zeta is a women’s-only organization and has been a strong advocate for women and women’s-only experiences since its founding in 1902,” she said in an emailed statement. “Today, we remain steadfast in that commitment and to our mission of creating lifelong, values-based membership experiences for women that are anchored deeply in our six core values, including friendship and belonging. Delta Zeta supports its members individual advocacy efforts and recognizes the unique thoughts, opinions and beliefs of its members.

“As a private member organization, Delta Zeta is committed to protecting the privacy of its active and inactive members through our membership accountability process,” Menges added. “As a result, we will not comment on the matter related to Payton’s membership in Delta Zeta.”

Title IX Case

Western Carolina University brought a Title IX investigation against McNabb, accusing her of creating a hostile environment for women by filming a man in the women’s restroom. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 aimed to protect the rights of women in education. McNabb remarked on the irony of a male wielding it against her.

“I kept thinking like how is a grown man going to charge a girl on Title IX charges for using the women’s restroom. Like, that doesn’t even sound real,” she said. “I mean, the irony of it. It almost sounds like a South Park episode or something, but it actually happened to me.”

The university ultimately cleared her of the Title IX accusations in January.

McNabb’s Message

McNabb urged women to speak out against gender ideology.

“My message is you can win because the truth is on your side and I had all the odds against me, especially from my university case, and I still prevailed,” she told The Daily Signal. “We have commonsense and reality on our side and that’s a big win.”

“This has affected me in multiple parts of my life, and not because I wanted it to,” McNabb explained.

She persisted despite a hostile environment against her.

“I was getting threatened, I had to move back home from school,” McNabb recalled. “People were trying to find where I lived.”

Completely Off the Table

McNabb told The Daily Signal that she tried to convince Delta Zeta to let her back into the sorority, to no avail. She said there is nothing the sorority could do to win her back.

“That’s completely off the table for me,” she replied. “And I, of course, I still have some lifelong friends in there, and I love them dearly, but besides them, I’ll have nothing to do with Delta Zeta.”

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