Sweet Briar College, a private liberal arts college for women based in Virginia, United States just introduced a new policy of its admissions, and that is not to allow transgender women to join on campus for this new academic year, according to New York Post. By this decision Sweet Briar College has joined the few remaining women's colleges in the United States that have taken similar stances.
As per the news outlet, College officials said the policy reflects the will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, who died in 1900. School officials described Williams's will as requiring that the institution must serve "girls and young women" terms that the college says must be interpreted to reflect the meaning those words had when the will was written.
In a letter to the college community, Sweet Briar President Mary Pope Hutson and the chair of the board announced that the new policy requires applicants to affirm that they were assigned female at birth and constantly live and identify as women.
President Hutson made it clear that single-sex education was both a tradition and a singular cultural resource for the college. But the policy has outraged students and faculty, who said it could discourage prospective students-both transgender and not-from applying to the college at a time when many women's colleges are closing, merging, or going co-ed. Sweet Briar itself almost closed in 2015.
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