{"id":1887235,"date":"2023-03-14T22:56:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T02:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-women-liberal-arts-college-votes-on-non-binding-referendum-to-allow-trans-non-binary-individuals-to-apply\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T22:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T02:59:54","slug":"all-women-liberal-arts-college-votes-on-non-binding-referendum-to-allow-trans-non-binary-individuals-to-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/all-women-liberal-arts-college-votes-on-non-binding-referendum-to-allow-trans-non-binary-individuals-to-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"All-Women Liberal Arts College Votes On Non-Binding Referendum To Allow Trans, Non-Binary Individuals To Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fall-women-liberal-arts-college-votes-on-non-binding-referendum-to-allow-trans-non-binary-individuals-to-apply%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1887235&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> On Tuesday, students at a Massachusetts women-only private liberal arts college supported a non-binding vote that would allow females to identify as men. &#8220;non-binary&#8221; Individuals may apply for the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Wellesley College&#8217;s student body, which includes Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton, voted unanimously last week to move the Gender Inclusivity Ballot forward. This would allow students. &#8220;express their views&#8221; the 150-year old institution&#8217;s admissions policies and make its language more inclusive of such students. Officials at the school said that student votes would have no impact on the school\u2019s policies and practices.<\/p>\n<p>The college already accepts transgender-identifying students who were born male, but the controversial referendum expands the application process for women who identify as men.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just asking the administration to put on paper what&#8217;s already true of the student body,&#8221; Alexandra Brooks, president of the student body, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/03\/14\/us\/wellesley-college-trans-nonbinary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&#038;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>. &#8220;Trans men go to Wellesley, nonbinary people go to Wellesley, and they kind of always have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Um, a senior at Wellesley For Life and the president of the campus&#8217; prolife group, said to the Times that she chose the liberal arts college because it was close to her home and its status as a women\u2019s college.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t think you can fit in here, then you have your pick of thousands of other coed colleges in the country or the world,&#8221; Um. &#8220;We&#8217;re a women&#8217;s college. That&#8217;s the core identity of the school, and we can&#8217;t start watering that down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Um did not tell the outlet whether Um opposed the referendum. She noted that it would pass, and she would speak out against the ballot on campus. &#8220;social suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wellesley has admitted to it. &#8220;cis, trans, and nonbinary students\u2014all who consistently identify as women,&#8221; Paula Johnson was the college&#8217;s president. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wellesley.edu\/announcements\/2023\/03\/06\/affirming-our-mission-and-embracing-our-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter<\/a> Last week on the college&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson opposed the referendum, and warned students that it would not affect its admissions policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not a \u2018historically women&#8217;s college,&#8217; a term that only applies to women&#8217;s colleges that have made the decision to enroll men,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;We have chosen a different path, one that aligns with peer institutions, including Barnard, Smith, and Bryn Mawr colleges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In accordance with our admission policy, Wellesley admits applicants who identify and live consistently as women, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth,&#8221; She continued.<\/p>\n<p>Wellesley college is home to approximately 2,500 students. It is located in the suburbs Boston. It is unknown how many students claim to be opposite sex. &#8220;non-binary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that all members of this community feel seen. Some transgender male and nonbinary students whose identities have evolved during their time here say they feel excluded by the College&#8217;s use of the words \u2018women&#8217; and \u2018alumnae&#8217; \u2014 and feel that their individual identities are not embraced,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;At the same time, many students who are committed to Wellesley&#8217;s mission as a women&#8217;s college and who identify as women have been publicly criticized for their view and have felt pressured to describe Wellesley as a historically women&#8217;s college.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson&#8217;s letter was rebuffed by the Wellesley News editorial Board, calling it unprofessional. &#8220;the College&#8217;s transphobic rhetoric.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transgender and nonbinary students have always belonged and will continue to belong at Wellesley, a historically women&#8217;s college,&#8221; They wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/thewellesleynews.com\/2023\/03\/08\/the-wellesley-news-editorial-boards-statement-on-president-paula-johnsons-recent-rmail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/all-women-liberal-arts-college-votes-on-non-biding-referendum-to-allow-trans-non-binary-individuals-to-apply\">All-Women Liberal Arts College Votes For Non-Binding Referendum To Allow Trans and Non-Binary Individuals The Right To Apply<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at a woman-only private liberal arts college in Massachusetts supported a non-binding referendum on Tuesday that would allow women who identify as men and \u201cnon-binary\u201d individuals to apply to the institution. 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