Virginia: New Sweet Briar College Policy Bars Transgender Students
“The Virginia women’s college made the change to comport with its founding documents, creating a stricter gender admissions policy than many of its peers”
Is sanity making a comeback?
In a move that has upset students, alumnae and faculty, Sweet Briar College announced earlier this month that it was changing its admissions policy and will no longer accept transgender applicants.
The small women’s college in rural Virginia has never had an admissions policy specifically for transgender students but has evaluated and admitted trans applicants on a case-by-case basis. The new policy holds that an applicant must confirm “that her sex assigned at birth is female and that she consistently lives and identifies as a woman,” according to Sweet Briar’s website.
Officials said they made the move to comply with recent changes to the Common Application, used by more than 1,000 higher ed institutions, which now lists four legal gender options. That change, Sweet Briar’s leaders said in a message to the campus community, “presents a challenge both for students applying for admission and administrators and staff making admissions decisions.”
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Can we stop using “gender” and just stick with Sex when setting policies? If they want to argue gender, just side-step it -policy should only care about “sex assigned at birth,” or a DNA determination of biological sex. You can call yourself whatever “gender” you want.
Sweet Briar College as created for the “flowers of the South,” not plastic flowers.
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