‘Women-Only’ Smith College Facing Civil Rights Complaint Over Admitting Trans Students
“Ironically, in what appears to be yet another exercise in sex discrimination, Smith admits natal men who identify as women but does not admit natal women who identify as men”
If you’re born female but identify as male, Smith College doesn’t want you. Make it make sense.
The College Fix reports:
‘Women-only’ Smith College faces civil rights complaint for admitting trans students
Smith College, one of just a few dozen women’s colleges in the U.S., is facing a federal civil rights complaint for allegedly discriminating against applicants based on their sex.
The private Massachusetts institution is a “women-only” college, but it “gives spots to ‘self-identifi[ed]’ transgender women that would have otherwise gone to biological women,” according to the complaint by Defending Education.
The education watchdog organization filed the complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in June, alleging the college’s admissions practices discriminate against women in violation of Title IX. The civil rights law protects citizens against sex-based discrimination while also protecting single-sex spaces.
“We are confident that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights will investigate the complaint against Smith College,” Erika Sanzi, director of outreach at Defending Education, told The College Fix in a recent interview.
The fact that Smith is a “women-only” college is not a problem; it’s the college’s admissions practices, according to Sanzi’s organization.
“The college’s Equal Education Opportunity Policy indicates that it will follow Title IX and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in its federally funded programs,” the complaint states.
“The very same policy, however, indicates that Smith interprets Title IX to prohibit ‘gender identity’ discrimination, despite federal case law and this Department’s guidance to the contrary,” it states.
Defending Education argues that Smith’s admissions policies discriminate against women not only by admitting male students in positions meant for females, but also by refusing admission to women who identify as men.
“Ironically, in what appears to be yet another exercise in sex discrimination, Smith admits natal men who identify as women but does not admit natal women who identify as men,” the complaint states.
The college’s admissions page website says, “Smith is a women’s college and considers for admission any applicants who self-identify as women; cis, trans, and nonbinary women are eligible to apply to Smith.”
Additionally, the complaint mentions the college’s “all-gender restroom and locker room policies, which divest female students of their privacy, safety, and equal educational opportunity,” and “appear to violate Title IX.”
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What about a biological woman who is attending Smith and decides to change her identification? Does she have to be expelled?
In 1,000,000 words or fewer, explain why or why not.
If one assumes that Gender is a social construct, and not synonymous with Sex being a biological reality, then what is to say that Gender is not ephemeral? If it does change over time, as apparently with the deceased Minneapolis school shooter Robin (Robert) Westman, then one would think that students admitted based on their ephemeral identity would need to be regularly questioned to ascertain their current identity. I doubt that Smith College admissions is doing that.
affrimaction has really fc’d up the country
Smith all women’s college 40% lesbian?