First Steps

[eredien]

So, I just wrote the BMC admissions office asking for their policies on admitting transgender students, as I couldn't find them outlined anywhere on the admissions website, and have found some other info suggesting that the Transgender Task Force convened to make recommendations about this very issue a few years ago recommended the current possible

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[gaudior]

Yeah, this. I would be 100% behind trying to get Bryn Mawr to admit MTF women, but I think that being a women's college and admitting FTM men is contradictory... it makes sense only if one is considering trans people to not "really" be the sex/gender they are/are transitioning to. I mean, if Bryn Mawr is admitting trans men (who know that they're men when they apply), then either

[eredien]

Thanks, guys! I will let you know if there is stuff you can do to help, if you want to be involved. For further and more detailed thoughts about my feelings on admission or not of FTM students, please see my longish reply to Gaudior below.

But if either or any of you have any more questions, let me know. Like I said, I have been researching this and turning it over in my mind for a while, but it's impossible to know everything, and at some point one must just go ahead with what one feels is right. I actually agree with you about BMC not going co-ed for undergraduate programs, and that is a large part of why I find admitting FTM students but not MTF students problematic; I feel like the students' gender identity is being totally disrespected by the school and the school is also disrespecting its students and therefore, its mission of education. But I also think that when men's-only schools say they want to stay mens'-only schools, they should be allowed to--surely there are historical gender discrepancies to address, but if one main

[emerald_scales]

However it turns out, you know I'll be with you in spirit.