Barnard College Votes To Admit Transgender Women

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Barnard College Votes To Admit Transgender Women

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/barnard-transgender-vote_n_7512034.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender


AP   on Huffington Post |  By JOCELYN NOVECK
Posted: 06/04/2015 1:34 pm EDT Updated: 06/04/2015 1:59 pm EDT

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barnard College has decided to admit transgender women, becoming the latest women's college to issue a new policy acknowledging the fluidity and complexity of gender.

The policy, announced Thursday, says Barnard will consider applicants "who consistently live and identify as women." That excludes transgender men, or applicants born female but identifying as male. The decision is an attempt to balance Barnard's identity as a women's college with what the school calls "recognition of our changing world and an evolving understanding of gender identity."


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Update on story the other day - it is now official.