BOSTON — 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 U.S. 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.
Women's Colleges Address Transgender Applicants
By Associated Press, Boston Herald
Wed, 09/10/2014 - 9:12am
Sections: u.s.
Topics: Massachusetts Suffolk County Boston
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