Sweet Briar College in Virginia has banned transgender students that identify as female from attending the women’s school next year, citing language in the college’s charter.
Sweet Briar President Mary Pope Hutson told the college community earlier this month that the school’s charter must be interpreted as it was intended at the time, and therefore applicants need to be biological women who live and identify as female.
The 20th century private liberal arts school was founded in 1901.
“Sweet Briar College believes that single-sex education is not only our tradition, but also a unique cultural and social resource,” Hutson told the Associated Press in a story published Friday.
Hutson’s comments have been met with harsh criticism from the school’s students and faculty, because founder Indiana Fletcher Williams’s will, which serves as the school’s charter, also specified that the students have to be white, which is no longer a requirement. […]
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