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Women’s college to vote on transgender admissions tomorrow

The women’s-only side of Columbia University might stop being an increasingly lonely holdout against transgender students among its peers in women’s higher education.

The Columbia Spectator reports that Barnard College’s board is expected to vote on whether to become officially “trans-inclusive” at its meeting Wednesday:

Barnard’s current admissions policy does not formally address the issue of transgender students or applicants, but prospective students must legally identify as female in order to be admitted—an issue that students have said excludes transgender women from the college.

It’s lagging behind Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Mills, Scripps and Smith colleges, which now accept “self-identified women” as students.

Barnard President Debora Spar has said the school’s identity is caught between those who see it as a place for “oppressed gender minorities” and “empowering women.”

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