One of the Nation’s largest all-women’s colleges has been hit with a civil rights complaint for allegedly allowing men to be admitted to the school and preventing students from speaking out.
Smith College’s admission policy allows anyone who claims to “identify” as a woman to be eligible to apply, the federal complaint filed by Defending Education (DE) states. The school also maintains a “Bias Response Team” which is tasked with responding to incidents of “bigotry, harassment or intimidation” based on characteristics such as “gender identity” and “gender expression.”
“Smith is a women’s college and considers for admission any applicants who self-identify as women; cis, trans, and nonbinary women are eligible to apply to Smith,” the school’s admissions page reads.
“[T]oday, some institutions of higher education, including those that hold themselves out to be single-sex, appear to adhere to the notion that sex is fungible,” Sarah Parshall Perry, vice president of DE, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Our organization is keenly interested in ensuring equality of educational opportunity for all students, and it is our hope that when assessing the ‘female-only’ policies of colleges like Smith, the Department of Education will take a closer look at that college’s possible attempts to rewrite Title IX, and allow transgender-identified males access to women’s-only spaces and admission slots.”
Smith College did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
To accommodate the male students, the college boasts that “[e]very single occupancy restroom on campus is designated all-gender, and more and more multi-stall bathrooms are as well,” according to DE’s complaint. Smith also has “[a]n all-gender locker room in the athletic facilities” and provides “gender affirming care,” including cross-sex hormones and “referrals for gender affirming surgeries,” as well as referrals for students to obtain abortions.
Title IX, a rule meant to protect women from discrimination at institutions receiving federal funding, was written into law on June 23, 1972. The law was manipulated under the Biden administration to include “gender identity” in a rewrite of the rule that was later shot down in the courts and eventually withdrawn by the administration.
The Trump administration has since made it clear that the federal government will only be adhering to the biological definition of sex.
“Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it,” Perry continued. “Today and always, Title IX is worth celebrating, protecting, and enforcing so that men and women can truly be equal–and equally protected–in American education.”
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