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Barnard Considers Policy for Transgender Students

Started by Natasha, December 13, 2014, 11:55:40 PM

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Barnard Considers Policy for Transgender Students


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/nyregion/barnard-weighs-policy-for-transgender-students.html?_r=0
12/12/2014
By JOHN LELAND

At an elite college for women, the question arises: What does it mean to be a woman?

The president of Barnard College announced this week that the school was considering adopting a formal admissions policy for transgender students. "The time has come for us to examine how we, as a women's college, define 'women,' and how, consequently, we both admit and graduate students," the president, Debora L. Spar, wrote in a letter to the student body.
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