Students at Wellesley College voted in favor of allowing transgender men and nonbinary applicants to apply to the historically all-women school in a referendum held Tuesday.
more inclusive of nonbinary and trans students, the student newspaper reported. Current Wellesley policy is to use female pronouns and similarly gendered language in institutional communications.
Johnson noted that some students who began identifying as male or nonbinary during their time at Wellesley feel excluded by the college's use of the words"women" and"alumnae."
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