Sweet Briar College, an all-female school in Virginia, has confirmed that it will not allow transgender students to apply, citing its founder’s will.
The college jumped to confirm the new rule after the widely sued non-profit group “Common Application” — which helps students apply to a long list of colleges using a standard application system, changed its “gender” section to allow students to choose other than “male” or “female.”
The group’s application now has two additional choices in gender, one being an “X” and another reading “another legal sex.”
But with that change, Sweet Briar College felt it had to move to make its n-men rule explicit instead of general.
Per The Blaze:
In a message to the campus, Sweet Briar College leaders wrote that the changes to the application have “present[ed] a challenge both for students applying for admission and administrators and staff making admissions decisions.”
“Previously, the College did not have a stated admissions policy addressing applicants identifying as other genders, but instead addressed applicants on a case-by-case basis,” the college’s correspondence explained. “This year, however, the Common Application included additional options for the selection of the legal sex … of applicants apart from male or female, creating confusion for applicants seeking to apply to a women’s college like Sweet Briar.”
“In fact, various parts of the Common Application now include as many as four gender … designations,” the college added.
Sweet Briar College noted that the institution is in a “unique position as the only women’s college in the country that was founded by and governed in accordance with a will that has been codified into law by the state’s legislature.” That will, belonging to the school’s founder, Fletcher Williams, was “codified by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia on February 9, 1901, as the College’s Charter.”
And what about that will? Well, it explicitly states that the college must be a school for “girls and young women.” And at the time it was written, trannyism was not included among the female category.
Good for them for sticking to their principles.
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