In a first, a nonbinary person is campus president of this Jewish sorority

In December, the Jewish sorority at the University of Cincinnati elected a new president.

The new leader was a founding member of the campus group who was highly involved in Jewish life at the university.

But the 21-year-old’s election was surprising in at least one way: For the first time, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, or SAEPi, would be led by someone not identifying as a woman.

About a year earlier, Elliot Draznin came out to the sorority sisters as nonbinary, identifying neither as a man or woman. Draznin asked to be referred to using ‘they’ as a singular pronoun instead of ‘she’, jta.org reports.