US WOMEN'S COLLEGES CHANGE ADMISSION POLICIES FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)
by STANews 
, Wednesday, September 10, 2014, 12:40
Women’s colleges are revisiting policies around enrolling transgender students as institutions of higher learning – single-sex, coed and those with religious affiliations – demonstrate varying degrees of acceptance for changing norms.
Mills College in Oakland, California, recently became the first US women’s college to declare it would accept undergraduate applications from “self-identified women” and people “assigned female at birth who do not fit into the gender binary”, effective the semester that starts January 2015.
Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, followed with a similar announcement last week. Administrators at other prominent women’s colleges also are weighing changes.
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