{"id":2451010,"date":"2025-06-23T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/womens-college-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-for-admitting-men\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:11:46","slug":"womens-college-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-for-admitting-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/womens-college-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-for-admitting-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s College Hit With Civil Rights Complaint For Admitting Men"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fwomens-college-hit-with-civil-rights-complaint-for-admitting-men%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=2451010&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>Smith College, one of the largest all-women&#8217;s colleges in the U.S., is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-naacp-and-ut-students-file-federal-civil-rights-complaint-over-racist-school-song-eyes-of-texas\/\" title=\"Texas NAACP And UT Students File Federal ... ... Over \u2018Racist\u2019 School Song \u2018Eyes Of Texas\u2019\">federal civil rights complaint<\/a> for its admissions policy that allows men who identify as women to access women&#8217;s spaces, such as restrooms. The complaint, filed by Defending Education with the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights, alleges that the college discriminates based on sex, violating Title IX, which prohibits such discrimination in federally funded programs. the complaint argues that discriminating based on gender identity is not equivalent to discrimination based on sex adn claims that Smith&#8217;s policies create unfair advantages for those assigned male at birth while undermining the rights of women. The complaint calls for an investigation into Smith&#8217;s practices, which include allowing self-identification for admission and designating single-occupancy restrooms and lockers as all-gender. Smith College has not responded to requests for comment on the allegations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>One of the largest all-women&rsquo;s colleges in the U.S., Smith College, has been hit with a federal civil rights complaint because it admits men claiming to be women and allows them in the private women&rsquo;s spaces like restrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The Title IX&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/complaints\/ocr-complaint-smith-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">complaint<\/a>, filed by Defending Education with the U.S. Department of Education&rsquo;s Office for Civil Rights, brought the complaint against the 150-year-old Massachusetts women&rsquo;s college &ldquo;for discrimination on the basis of sex in programs or activities that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-mother-joe-bidens-war-on-religious-daycares\/\" title=\"Big Mother: Joe Biden\u2019s War On Religious Daycares\">receive federal financial assistance<\/a> in violation of&rdquo; federal law.<\/p>\n<p>The college&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/discover-smith\/governance\/equal-educational-opportunity-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equal&nbsp;Education Opportunity Policy<\/a> &ldquo;indicates that it will follow Title IX and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in its federally funded programs,&rdquo; the complaint, written by Defending Education Vice President Sarah Parshall Perry, states. However, she continues, &ldquo;The very same policy &hellip; indicates that Smith interprets Title IX to prohibit &lsquo;gender identity&rsquo; discrimination, despite federal case law and this [Education] Department&rsquo;s guidance to the contrary.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Discrimination based on gender identity is not the same as discrimination based on sex under Title IX, as this Department well knows, and the Supreme Court has never held it is,&rdquo; the complaint reads. &ldquo;In other words, to the extent Smith&rsquo;s accommodations for so<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >-called gender identity encroach<\/a> upon sex-specific programs and spaces, it is in violation of Title IX. The college&rsquo;s admission policy appears to violate Title IX for the same reason.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The complaint further cites <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive orders<\/a> signed by President Donald Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-enforce-2020-title-ix-rule-protecting-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guidance<\/a> from the Education Department that Title IX protections shall be based on sex rather than &ldquo;gender identity.&rdquo; The college confirms it allows males who claim to be female to take admissions spots from actual women, the complaint says. Smith&rsquo;s website explicitly <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/pt2WK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">states<\/a> that &ldquo;people who identify as women&mdash;cis, trans and nonbinary women&mdash;are eligible to apply to Smith.&rdquo; It also says that male applicants can simply claim to be women to be considered for admission because &ldquo;Smith&rsquo;s policy is one of self-identification. The applicant&rsquo;s affirmation of identity is sufficient.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ironically, in what appears to be yet another exercise in sex discrimination, Smith admits natal men who identify as women but does not admit natal women who identify as men,&rdquo; the complaint states, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/30\/us\/transgender-womens-colleges-admissions-experiences\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">citing<\/a> a 2023 CNN article. <\/p>\n<p>The complaint goes on to cite &ldquo;Smith&rsquo;s policies on &lsquo;Gender Identity and Expression,&#8217;&rdquo; which &ldquo;indicate that &lsquo;[e]very single-occupancy restroom on campus is designated all-gender&rdquo; and show how the college &ldquo;advertises &lsquo;[a]n all-gender locker room in the athletic facilities,&#8217;&rdquo; the complaint reads. Smith College&rsquo;s website also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/your-campus\/offices-services\/equity-inclusion\/gender-identity-expression\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">says<\/a> that &ldquo;more and more&rdquo; multi-stall bathrooms on campus will be designated &ldquo;all-gender,&rdquo; allowing men to access them, and that the health &amp; wellness center &ldquo;provides trans-affirming primary care, including hormone therapy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The school made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smith.edu\/president-kathleen-mccartney\/letters\/2014-15\/admission-policy-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">change<\/a> to allow men in 2015, when it told itself, faculty, staff, parents, and alumnae that allowing men in the school actually &ldquo;affirms Smith&rsquo;s unwavering mission and identity as a women&rsquo;s college, our commitment to representing the diversity of women&rsquo;s lived experiences, and the college&rsquo;s exceptional role in the advancement of women worldwide.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At a minimum, then, Smith&rsquo;s gender-identity-based Equal Opportunity Policy; its admissions&nbsp;policy, which accepts natal men in lieu of similarly situated female applicants; and its all-gender&nbsp;restroom and locker room policies, which divest female students of their privacy, safety, and equal educational opportunity, all appear to violate Title IX,&rdquo; the complaint states. &ldquo;Accordingly, we ask that the Department promptly investigate all the allegations in this complaint, act swiftly to remedy unlawful policies and practices, and order appropriate relief.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration&rsquo;s Department of Education has been active in looking into Title IX violations like men in women&rsquo;s sports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fitness-guru-jillian-michaels-praises-rfk-jr-hhs-pick-very-grateful-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Fitness guru Jillian Michaels praises RFK Jr. HHS pick: \u2018Very grateful\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">men invading women&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s private spaces, and other &ldquo;transgender&rdquo;-related violations.<\/p>\n<p>Smith College did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Federalist.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is a correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith College faces a federal complaint for admitting men as women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2451011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/138_53_8789183_3408024551_6.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33274,41586,32276],"class_list":["post-2451010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-college-admissions","tag-womens-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/138_53_8789183_3408024551_6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451014,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451010\/revisions\/2451014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}