Gender Identity Debated at Same-Sex Colleges

[Sparkle]

And thank you for the discussion...

I have more thoughts on it, as well....

Speaking about women-only colleges specifically:

I believe that the women who founded these colleges hoped and believed that 100+ years later our society/government would have made far more significant advances in dismantling gender bias in education and the work place; and that the need for institutions that addressed these bias would be obsolete.

I believe that women's colleges do provide their students with real advantages and networks that help them to succeed.

I believe there IS still a very real need for single-sex colleges, specifically women's colleges.

I also believe that gender is fluid, that both transition and the (typical) college-years are a time of self-discovery and that individuals should be given the space and time and support needed to really explore and discover who they are.

And I believe whole-heartedly in trans-inclusion in the broadest possible sense without exclusionary language about born-gender and physical changes to gender. I believe that you are the gender you identify yourself to be and that includes all the areas between one gender and the other.

I do NOT believe that having an admission policy that is trans-inclusive (broadly) endangers or dilutes the core mission or the institutions' ability to deliver that mission.