Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year. The decision makes the private liberal arts school an outlier among the nation’s diminishing number of women’s colleges. The college said the policy stems from the will of its founder who died in 1900.
FILE - The front gate of Sweet Briar College is shown May 13, 2015, in Sweet Briar, Va. in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nation’s diminishing number of women’s colleges.
“Sweet Briar College believes that single-sex education is not only our tradition, but also a unique cultural and social resource,” President Mary Pope Hutson said in a statement to The Associated Press. On Monday night, the faculty voted 48 to 4, with one abstention, to call on the board to rescind the policy, Brown said.
“And there are allies here who may identify as women but have friends and lovers and family members who are nonbinary, genderqueer and transgender,” Paul said. “So this is also affecting their pride in their institution.” Women’s colleges in the U.S. began to admit transgender women about 10 years ago, including Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and Spelman College, a historically Black school in Atlanta.Currently, 23 historically women’s colleges have policies that admit at least some trans students, said Genny Beemyn, director of the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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