Gender Identity Debated at Same-Sex Colleges

[Thinker]

Originally Posted by Sparkle

I have no problem with students admitted to single-gender colleges transitioning while there and graduating from those institutions.

I don't believe that it will in any way harm the reputation or exclusivity of the institution. And as a higher-ed fundraising professional, I don't believe that donors/gifts are significantly impacted by allowing transgendered/gender queer students to matriculate and graduate.

My experience is that other students on campus - don't care either.

I live near two of the Seven Sister Schools; I have worked at one of them.

This debate has been ongoing for years in this area and I'm quite proud that despite the controversy and the media-frenzy that has been stirred up in the past - college leadership (Presidents and Trustees) are making the right decision (in my opinion) and supporting those students.

Were there ever conversations/debates about the "intrusion of women's space"?

I can fully and completely understand that argument......why it would be so upsetting. And I can also see where it might not even get more than a few minutes of processing time because others see the individual as a female-to-male transsexual.

Now I'm not one to discount transmen as men. Obviously. But I feel pretty certain that the majority of those "watching" would always view the individual as a female-to-male transsexual, thus lightening (perhaps eliminating?) the feeling of having a man in a space for women.

I don't know how valid any of that is........just me mulling stuff over, really. But I'm a realist when it comes to this stuff, and I feel pretty certain that many would offer that up as an explanation for their "acceptance".