Jane Doe's texts say she was wrongly called transgender after Cornell Chi Phi party

Newly resurfaced text messages obtained by CBS News and reported by the New York Post show that the student known as Jane Doe told a Chi Phi fraternity member in the days after the October 2024 party that people had wrongly accused her of being transgender. The exchange, which the outlets date to late October and early November 2024, includes a Oct. 23, 2024 message in which Doe says rumors about the party were "ruining" her life and later November texts in which she wrote that "90% of what happened that night was not consensual."

The texts were shared with CBS News and published in part by the New York Post, which notes the messages predate Doe's later allegation that seven fraternity members gang raped her at the October 2024 Chi Phi party. In the Nov. 3, 2024 messages cited by CBS News and the Post, Doe tells a fraternity member she was given more ketamine than she can remember and describes being treated in a sexually degrading way; the man responds in the messages saying he was sorry and that had he been less impaired he would have shut the situation down. Reporting by CBS News presents the exchange as initially amicable before Doe's tone shifts in early November; the New York Post highlights the element that she complained of being wrongly mistaken as transgender in their October texts. Both outlets publish overlapping material from the same set of messages, with CBS News providing specific quoted lines from the Nov. 3 texts and the New York Post emphasizing the Oct. 23 line about the rumors "ruining" her life and the sequence in which the texts predate her formal complaint. ABC News reports institutional consequences unfolding at Cornell: university president Michael Kotlikoff announced a suspension of all fraternity house parties and social events for the rest of the year while the administration considers the future of fraternity life, and ABC News says the faculty is set to deliberate a resolution of no confidence in the administration with a vote expected later this month. That reporting links the resurfaced messages and the 2024 allegation to ongoing campus actions but does not itself reproduce the text messages. The accounts in the texts and the reporting distinguish between statements that are confirmed in the messages and wider allegations. The messages themselves show Doe describing earlier rumors that she was transgender and later describing non-consensual elements of the Chi Phi party; the allegation that seven fraternity members gang raped her is set out in later complaints and is described in the New York Post as following the dates of the exchanged texts. The reporting does not include independent forensic verification of the messages' authenticity beyond their publication by CBS News and the New York Post, nor do the outlets in this package supply police charging documents or a court finding tied to the messages. The immediate institutional actions at Cornell described by ABC News — the suspension of fraternity social events and the pending faculty vote — are presented as administrative decisions made after the allegation resurfaced publicly. Taken together, the messages complicate the public timeline: they show Jane Doe discussing both prior false rumors about being transgender and, in later texts, asserting that most of what occurred at the October 2024 party was not consensual. Those elements are central to the campus dispute and to Cornell's suspension of fraternity social events, while the university and law enforcement roles in investigating the underlying criminal allegation are documented in reporting on administrative steps but are not detailed in the messages themselves.