Swordsmyth
01-02-2019, 06:15 PM
Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri — the second-oldest women-only college in the country — has announced that it will begin accepting admissions applications from transgender students in the fall of 2019. According to the school’s website, it has defied science and “expanded its definition of womanhood.”
The college boasts that the world’s “understanding of and definition of womanhood is changing, and Stephens is evolving.” In other words, the school is now “woke.”
The college’s new policy (http://komu.s3.amazonaws.com/files/faq_admissions_policy__(1).pdf) officially states:
The College’s undergraduate residential women’s program will continue to admit and enroll students who are women and who live as women, just as it always has. It will also admit and enroll students who were not born female, but who identify and live as women; those students will need to provide legal documentation that they are legally women or that they are transitioning to female.
Because the College has expanded its definition of womanhood to include both sex and gender, it is logically consistent that it also acknowledges both sex and gender in its definition of manhood. As a result, the College will stop admitting and enrolling students who were born female but who now identify as men or who are transitioning from female to male.
The policy change came after a unanimous vote by the school's board of trustees, though it had been under consideration since 2014, the Christian Post reports, after the Obama administration issued new administrative guidelines that defined “gender identity” as an individual’s “internal sense of being male or female.”
Some students have raised concerns over the announcement.
“We are required to live on campus, so how are the dorm arrangements going to go?” Stephens College student Sally Russell told news station KOMU-TV (https://www.komu.com/news/stephens-college-redefines-womanhood-in-its-new-admissions-policy). “If someone has male genitalia and is living within the women’s dorms, people have been really scared since a lot of people on campus have roommates and share bathrooms.”
Stephens College is not the first to change its policy to allow for the acceptance of transgender students, the U.K. Independent reports. Mills College in Oakland, California, was the first, followed by Wellesley, Smith, Bryan Mawr, and Barnard.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/31078-another-women-only-college-to-accept-transgender-students-in-fall
The college boasts that the world’s “understanding of and definition of womanhood is changing, and Stephens is evolving.” In other words, the school is now “woke.”
The college’s new policy (http://komu.s3.amazonaws.com/files/faq_admissions_policy__(1).pdf) officially states:
The College’s undergraduate residential women’s program will continue to admit and enroll students who are women and who live as women, just as it always has. It will also admit and enroll students who were not born female, but who identify and live as women; those students will need to provide legal documentation that they are legally women or that they are transitioning to female.
Because the College has expanded its definition of womanhood to include both sex and gender, it is logically consistent that it also acknowledges both sex and gender in its definition of manhood. As a result, the College will stop admitting and enrolling students who were born female but who now identify as men or who are transitioning from female to male.
The policy change came after a unanimous vote by the school's board of trustees, though it had been under consideration since 2014, the Christian Post reports, after the Obama administration issued new administrative guidelines that defined “gender identity” as an individual’s “internal sense of being male or female.”
Some students have raised concerns over the announcement.
“We are required to live on campus, so how are the dorm arrangements going to go?” Stephens College student Sally Russell told news station KOMU-TV (https://www.komu.com/news/stephens-college-redefines-womanhood-in-its-new-admissions-policy). “If someone has male genitalia and is living within the women’s dorms, people have been really scared since a lot of people on campus have roommates and share bathrooms.”
Stephens College is not the first to change its policy to allow for the acceptance of transgender students, the U.K. Independent reports. Mills College in Oakland, California, was the first, followed by Wellesley, Smith, Bryan Mawr, and Barnard.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/31078-another-women-only-college-to-accept-transgender-students-in-fall