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Elite all-girls school pauses adoption of policy allowing transgender women to apply after backlash
| Fox News ^ | Published August 18, | By Kelsey Koberg

Posted on 08/18/2022 3:45:31 PM PDT by dennisw

Last week, Harpeth Hall announced a new 'Gender Diversity Philosophy,' which allowed anyone who identified as female to apply to the school

An elite all-girls school in Nashville has paused implementation of a policy allowing applications from anyone who identifies as female after backlash from the community.

Last week, in an email to parents, Harpeth Hall School announced a new "Gender Diversity Philosophy," explaining a new admissions policy that would allow "any student who identifies as a girl" to apply to the school.

"We recognize that this philosophy elicited strong reactions of support and opposition beyond our expectations," the school said in an email to the community obtained by Fox News Digital. "We care deeply about your feedback and we have heard you."

"Based on the response from our school and community, the Harpeth Hall Board of Trustees is choosing to pause the adoption of the philosophy in order to engage a wider audience in continued discussion," the letter continued.

The letter added that the school does not want to make changes to its longstanding admission practices and continues to "serve girls and young women."

Other all-girls institutions have taken similar steps, allowing biological males who identify as female to apply to the school.

In 2016, Barnard College, an all-women’s college in New York City, implemented a policy to "consider for admission those applicants who consistently live and identify as women, regardless of the gender assigned to them at birth." The decision made Barnard the last of the traditional Seven Sisters colleges to update their admissions policies.

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To: EEGator

“for quarters...”

Damn, went to the wrong high school.


41 posted on 08/18/2022 6:21:09 PM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: BobL

She was a heinous blob.


42 posted on 08/18/2022 6:22:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: sbnsd
It's called a mess that government created by not nipping this cr** in the bud..

Boys in girl clothes does not make you a girl....period.

43 posted on 08/18/2022 6:24:05 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: EEGator

“She was a heinous blob.”

Ok, maybe Laz would still take her, but I’m done.


44 posted on 08/18/2022 6:43:26 PM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: BobL

Not even Laz would...


45 posted on 08/18/2022 6:46:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: dennisw

Yeah, but mentally they’re still guys. If they really want to cross over, get the chop.


46 posted on 08/18/2022 6:49:47 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: BobL

Yah, but you had money for lunch.


47 posted on 08/18/2022 6:51:40 PM PDT by dgbrown
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To: SkyDancer

Right! Get the chop or you are nothing but a chemed up transvestite. Sanity sets in, so very few male to female fakers get The Chop. No more than 5% is my guess.


48 posted on 08/18/2022 7:04:46 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: EEGator

“Not even Laz would...”

Crap, she must have been bad. I guess the 25 cent fee should have been a giveaway.


49 posted on 08/18/2022 8:21:07 PM PDT by BobL (The Globalists/Neocons desperately want Ukraine to win...makes it easy for me to choose a side)
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To: EEGator

>> My high school was free

Did your parents pay state, local, property taxes?

A rough estimate... if 1 out of 4 households have 2 children in K-12, and each house through annual taxation contributes $5k each... that amounts to $10k for each K-12 child.

There are affluent towns where that annual tax “contribution” is easily doubled/tripled.


50 posted on 08/18/2022 9:36:56 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Ladybugs with the late Rodney Dangerfield and late Jonathan Brandis, Brandis was the “ringer” Rodney had in drag to help the all girls team.


51 posted on 08/18/2022 11:02:24 PM PDT by newzjunkey (“We Did It Joe!” -The Taliban / “Thanks Joe!” -Putin)
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To: Romulus

I used to live about a mile away off tyne and before that a block away on estes rd and I walked and jogged on the campus

The acreage and buildings is prolly at least 250 million value

Used to board I think it’s been around since 70 years

The enrollment includes many billionaire and mid 9 figure net worth Nashville clans

Five million is trifle to these folks

I assume the howl got folks attention even though Nashville proper is a lost Cause to extreme leftism Belle Meade and green hills and hillwood and nearby hillwood still have some Sense amongst some

Just ten years ago tuition was only 18,000

Crazy I don’t see the point


52 posted on 08/18/2022 11:43:21 PM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: Jane Austen

You’re right. Some people in very high places are keeping these groups quiet, is what I think. I can’t believe how many parents are giving up their children to these evil folks that want to mutilate and mentally harm them. It is insanity.


53 posted on 08/19/2022 4:26:56 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Pray for our nation! It needs it!)
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To: dennisw

It’s just a sexual fantasy with them; they want to pretend they’re female but retain the guy stuff.


54 posted on 08/19/2022 6:29:38 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: newzjunkey

Would you have thought Rodney would’ve outlived poor Jonathan ? Damn shame. If only he had reached out for help before taking his life. :-(


55 posted on 08/19/2022 8:21:26 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: dennisw

Well it sounds like somebody didn’t get the bribe money.


56 posted on 08/19/2022 8:23:30 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: dennisw
Well, that didn't take long! One week from Breitbart's last article announcing the doomed policy—and unlike all the elite northern women's schools who reject the opinions of their TERF* alumnae. The South shall rise again!


* Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists

57 posted on 08/19/2022 8:45:58 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Here's the trans "female" who was rejected this week by all 20 sororities at University of Alabama:

Dude, seriously?

58 posted on 08/19/2022 8:53:26 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: max americana
my Mom was teamed with another mom of my classmate, [who] is on the board of directors for Dell. They were both mowing the lawn of the church on Saturday, then my Dad that night, was calling bingo [with] my other classmate’s dad who owns the biggest Chevy dealership in the city

What a wonderful school. Keepin' it real!

59 posted on 08/19/2022 9:03:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: dennisw

Faux News deeply saddened.


60 posted on 08/19/2022 9:04:43 AM PDT by Zathras
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