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Feds Probe Smith College Over Transgender Admissions Policy

Feds Probe Smith College Over Transgender Admissions Policy

Feds Probe Smith College Over Transgender Admissions Policy
Above: Smith College campus in Northampton, Massachusetts, on Oct. 18, 2018. Image credit: John Greim/LightRocket/Getty Images

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The OCR's investigation wasis necessary following legitimate concerns that Smith College may have violated Title IX by admitting biological males and giving them access to women-only dorms, bathrooms and locker rooms, spaces the law explicitly protects for female students. By upholding these practices, Smith mayhas have broken the single-sex exception, losing all legal standing.

Smith's inclusive admissions policy is no crime; rather, it reflects a decade of deliberate study, faculty input and legal consultation, which rightly judged that the admission of trans women was a natural extension of the college's founding purpose. The investigation, therefore, is nothing but another attempt by this administration to target a vulnerable community with relentless, gaslighting rhetoric.


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