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Source: Associated Press
Womens college in Virginia bars transgender students based on founders will from 1900
By BEN FINLEY
Updated 6:45 PM EDT, August 30, 2024
Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year, making the school an outlier among the nations diminishing number of womens colleges.
The private womens liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, who died in 1900. Sweet Briars leadership said the document requires it to be a place of girls and young women.
The phrase must be interpreted as it was understood at the time the Will was written, Sweet Briars president and board chair wrote in a letter earlier this month to the college community.
The new policy requires an applicant to confirm that her sex assigned at birth is female, and that she consistently lives and identifies as a woman.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/sweet-briar-college-transgender-students-694398c5cf910212924e9bb71b38787e
Dave Bowman
(3,851 posts)LostOne4Ever
(9,603 posts)Just an excuse to be bigoted.
LostOne4Ever
(9,603 posts)Nothing learned or achieved since then allowed? Nothing AC powered, no automobiles, no air conditioning, etc
Because if they are describing women and girls that way they should describe place the same way.