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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: Romulus
“Engaging a wider audience” means seeking funding from woke foundations, which will enable them to ignore opposition from parents, grandparents, and alumnae. Without even feeling it, these leftist funding sources can write checks that will enable school administrators to disregard traditional stakeholders.

Sadly, you may be right about that. But surely there are additional wealthy alumnae than Reese Witherspoon and Amy Grant.

A women's college in Philadelphia went through this stuff back in the 80s, wanting to admit men even though there were dozens of coed schools all around; but the alumnae fought back and it stayed women's except for the very small graduate program, which did not involve any males residing in the dorms. A few years ago they said they would admit post-op trans females to the undergrad; but lately it's just anyone who "identifies" as female. Yuck.

61 posted on 08/19/2022 9:14:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: dennisw

There was a reason the Founders didn’t want women to vote.

College is the next step after “elite prep school.”

Here is an list of “Women’s Colleges with Trans-Inclusive Policies.” It also notes a few colleges that say “no”, and a tiny few that say “oh, hail no.”

https://www.campuspride.org/tpc/womens-colleges/


62 posted on 08/19/2022 9:24:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert..."--Michael Anton)
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To: Albion Wilde

Yup, saw that “thing” in the other thread. Can’t imagine why it would get rejected. What an Alabama Belle.


63 posted on 08/19/2022 9:30:16 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: dennisw

The coming dna warping.

Distortions and animal heads as on the Egyptian murals.
Grand deceptions
CRISPR


64 posted on 08/19/2022 9:38:27 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors)
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To: Albion Wilde

Disgusting clown. Women need their own safe spaces colleges if they prefer. Over the usual co-ed type ones at State U.


65 posted on 08/19/2022 10:03:43 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: SkyDancer

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

Guy stuff?... they (trans) let it all hang out in the women’s swim team locker room. According to the young women at U-PA on Lia Thomas swim team.


66 posted on 08/19/2022 10:22:51 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

One of these days we’ll hear the story where some angry dad helped a trannie over the fence into a new field.


67 posted on 08/19/2022 11:06:35 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: dennisw

Hegelian Dialectic in action. Nudge nudge!


68 posted on 08/20/2022 5:54:16 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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