Posted on 09/04/2017 10:48:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Until last year, Ninotska Love would have been barred from attending Wellesley College. She’s an accomplished student who has persevered through hardship, but under longstanding rules, the college would have rejected her because she was assigned at birth as a boy.
Now the rules have changed. This week, Love will become one of the first transgender women to attend Wellesley in the school’s 147-year history.
“For me to be accepted to one of the best colleges for women in the nation, it is a big validation of the person that I have become. At first I couldn’t believe it,” said Love, 28, who was born in Ecuador but fled to the U.S. in 2009 after being kidnapped and threatened because of her gender identity. “I’m so thankful to be here.”
Her arrival on campus reflects a quiet but momentous shift that’s taking place at a wave of women’s colleges that have begun allowing trans women. But even as many schools embrace shifting views on gender, some have been reluctant to change amid lingering differences over the role of women’s colleges. …
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“Republicans” are completely different animals depending on the geography.
The staunchest “conservative” Republican in Maxistchusetts would be considered a raving leftist in Texas.
“Women’s College”? Why do such things even exist? How sexist? Ho exclusionary! They should be illegal!
Who defines what a woman is?? What if men had a Men’s College???
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I suppose both sexes used to, in their own ways...
‘the doctor just “assigned” the gender ???’
actually, it was assigned by He who assigns all things, was it not...?
actually, it was assigned by He who assigns all things, was it not...?
grammar fail...should be Him...still doesn’t change the fact that few should find the phrase ‘assigned at birth’ to be all that unusual...
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