Smith Caves-in

You might remember a couple of year ago Smith College denied admission to a trans woman, well they had a change of heart.

Smith College to accept transgender students
College’s trustees vote to expand eligibility pool
By Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff
May 02, 2015

The Smith College board of trustees Saturday voted to begin accepting undergraduate applicants who consider themselves to be transgender women.
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“From the civil rights perspective, we’re saying trans women are women,” Smith College president Kathleen McCartney said in a telephone interview. “What we’re doing here is really affirming that we’re a women’s college and we have an unwavering mission and identity as a women’s college.”

The school said the trustees voted after studying the issue for a year and appointing an Admission Policy Study Group, which examined the college’s admissions rules “in light of society’s evolving understanding of gender.”

I like how they put it “society’s evolving understanding of gender,” yes our understanding of gender is changing, that it much more than chromosomes. That it is a whole host of biological and social  factor that influences gender.