Students at Wellesley College voted on Tuesday night to make transgender men and nonbinary students eligible for admission. Despite this vote, Wellesley does not plan to change its admissions policies, the school's president says.
that its members “disapprove of and entirely disagree" with her email and characterized the college’s rhetoric as “transphobic.”
She said that Wellesley also plans to appoint a new director for its office of LGBTQ+ programs and services to help teach faculty and staff members about gender identity and pronoun use, among other topics, and that it was working to expand the number of all-gender bathrooms on campus.
Another student, Ailie Wood, who helped author the ballot initiative, told the student newspaper that the proposal sought to help the college live up to its mission.
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