Wellesley College Votes to Embrace Gender Diversity in Admissions

Students at Wellesley College in Massachusetts have voted in favor of a non-binding referendum that would expand the college's admissions policy to include transgender men and all nonbinary people regardless of their assigned gender at birth. The referendum also proposed replacing all gender-specific language with gender-neutral language in reference to the student body. The women's college currently accepts those who "live as women and consistently identify as women," including transgender women, and nonbinary students who "were assigned female at birth and who feel they belong in our community of women." The college's Director of Media Relations stated that there is no plan to revisit its mission as a women's college or its admissions policy.