<p>Students at a woman-only private liberal arts college in Massachusetts supported a non-binding referendum on Tuesday that would allow women who identify as men and &#8220;non-binary&#8221; individuals to apply to the institution.</p>
<p>Student body officials at Wellesley College, which includes alumnae Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright, voted unanimously last month to advance the Gender Inclusivity Ballot, which would allow students to &#8220;express their views&#8221; on the 150-year-old institution&#8217;s admissions policy while making its language more inclusive to such students. However, school officials said the student vote wouldn’t have any impact on the school’s policies or practices.</p>
<p>The college already accepts transgender-identifying students who were born male, but the controversial referendum expands the application process for women who identify as men.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just asking the administration to put on paper what&#8217;s already true of the student body,&#8221; Alexandra Brooks, the student body president, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/wellesley-college-trans-nonbinary.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. &#8220;Trans men go to Wellesley, nonbinary people go to Wellesley, and they kind of always have.&#8221;</p>
<p>Elizabeth Um, a senior and president of the campus&#8217; pro-life group, Wellesley For Life, told the Times that she enrolled at the liberal arts college due to its close proximity to home and its identity as a women&#8217;s college.</p>
<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t think you can fit in here, then you have your pick of thousands of other coed colleges in the country or the world,&#8221; Um said. &#8220;We&#8217;re a women&#8217;s college. That&#8217;s the core identity of the school, and we can&#8217;t start watering that down.&#8221;</p>
<p>Um did not disclose to the outlet whether she opposed the referendum, noting that it would pass and speaking out against the ballot on campus would be &#8220;social suicide.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wellesley already admits &#8220;cis, trans, and nonbinary students—all who consistently identify as women,&#8221; the college&#8217;s president, Paula Johnson, wrote in a <a href="https://blogs.wellesley.edu/announcements/2023/03/06/affirming-our-mission-and-embracing-our-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> last week on the college website.</p>
<p>Johnson opposed the referendum and warned students that the results would not impact its admissions policy.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are not a &#8216;historically women&#8217;s college,&#8217; a term that only applies to women&#8217;s colleges that have made the decision to enroll men,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;We have chosen a different path, one that aligns with peer institutions, including Barnard, Smith, and Bryn Mawr colleges.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;In accordance with our admission policy, Wellesley admits applicants who identify and live consistently as women, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth,&#8221; she added.</p>
<p>Roughly 2,500 students attend Wellesley college, which is located in the suburbs of Boston. It is not known how many of those students claim to be the opposite sex or &#8220;non-binary.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that all members of this community feel seen. Some transgender male and nonbinary students whose identities have evolved during their time here say they feel excluded by the College&#8217;s use of the words ‘women’ and ‘alumnae’ — and feel that their individual identities are not embraced,&#8221; Johnson wrote. &#8220;At the same time, many students who are committed to Wellesley&#8217;s mission as a women&#8217;s college and who identify as women have been publicly criticized for their view and have felt pressured to describe Wellesley as a historically women&#8217;s college.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Wellesley News editorial board disapproved of Johnson&#8217;s letter, calling it &#8220;the College&#8217;s transphobic rhetoric.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Transgender and nonbinary students have always belonged and will continue to belong at Wellesley, a historically women&#8217;s college,&#8221; they wrote in the <a href="https://thewellesleynews.com/2023/03/08/the-wellesley-news-editorial-boards-statement-on-president-paula-johnsons-recent-rmail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">editorial</a>.</p>

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