The Trump administration has opened a federal civil rights investigation into Smith College, one of the country’s few remaining all-women’s institutions.
According to a Monday press release from the Department of Education, the Office for Civil Rights is examining whether the college violated Title IX.
At issue is the Massachusetts school’s policy of admitting men who identify as “transgender” women and granting them access to female-only spaces.
Those spaces include dormitories, bathrooms, locker rooms, and even the school’s athletic teams.
Title IX allows for single-sex colleges, but only on the basis of biological sex, not gender identity.
That distinction is at the heart of the investigation.
The Trump administration has made protecting women’s spaces a clear priority since day one, and has gone after states and institutions that have lost their way.
Smith College’s own policies clash directly with the reason for its existence.
On its website, one of the
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