Women's college admissions: Are trans women left in the dust?Antoinette Weil, November 5th
The women's college traditionally has been a place for social experimentation, nonconformity and ferocious advocacy for social justice. To their credit, women's colleges have been at the forefront of our country's ever-changing cultural landscape and have served as forums for important questions, including ones about conventional gender roles and what it means to be a woman. Now, with transgender issues at last making their mainstream debut as the next wave in the LGBT movement, the women's college is faced with one of its biggest questions to date: Where do trans students fit in to these unique learning institutions?
Currently, while some women's colleges have enacted specific policies on transgender students and student applicants, most remain up in the air, ostensibly subject to a case-by-case examination. While perusing transgender policies at some of the remaining women's schools, it is commonplace to see references to diversity and LGBTQ inclusion coupled with a statement of exclusivity, somewhere along the lines of "[insert college here] only admits women." For cisgender males and females this appears pretty black and white -- but what exactly does it mean for transgender students?
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