‘We love our trans classmates’: With Trump probe looming, Smith College students, alumni stand by admissions policy - The Boston Globe

Trump Education Department targets trans and nonbinary students at Smith College

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—The Trump administration’s investigation of Smith College is premised upon a fundamental misreading of Title IX law, argues Carrie Baker, a professor in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Smith.  Smith College is a private, historically women’s college located in Northampton, Massachusetts; the college began admitting transfeminine students following a policy change in 2015, prior to which it had admitted onl…

‘We love our trans classmates’: With Trump probe looming, Smith College students, alumni stand by admissions policy - The Boston Globe

Petitions have started to circulate among Smith stakeholders, including demands that the college use its $2.7 billion endowment to stand up to the Trump administration.