California Women's College Makes Trans-Inclusive History

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Calif. Women's College Makes Trans-Inclusive History
In a historic move, one California college has adopted an explicitly trans-inclusive admissions policy, making it the only school to do so among the nation's 119 single-sex college programs.
BY Parker Marie Molloy
August 27 2014

Last week, Mills College became the first single-sex college in the U.S. to adopt a policy explicitly welcoming transgender students.

The new policy at the all-women school in Oakland, Calif., now extends an explicit invitation to trans students, making it the only school out of the country's 119 single-sex programs to have implemented such a policy.

The thorough policy language distinguishes between the school's women-only undergraduate program, and its co-ed graduate program.

"Applicants 'not assigned to the female sex at birth' but who self-identify as women are welcome," reads the new policy, according to San Francisco Chronicle. "Applicants 'who do not fit into the gender binary' — being neither male nor female — are eligible if they were 'assigned to the female sex at birth.' Students 'assigned to the female sex at birth' who have legally become male prior to applying are not eligible unless they apply to the graduate program, which is coeducational. Female students who become male after enrolling may stay and graduate.".... MORE at http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/08/27/calif-womens-college-makes-trans-inclusive-history