Smith College

The school will start admitting transgender women – but not trans men – next year.

Smith President Kathleen McCartney said in announcing the change that “In the years since Smith’s founding, concepts of female identity have evolved.”

BOSTON — Women’s colleges are revisiting policies around enrolling transgender students as institutions of higher learning – single-sex, coed and those with religious affiliations – demonstrate varying degrees of acceptance for changing norms. Mills College in Oakland, California, recently became the first women’s college in the U.S. to declare it would accept …