St. Mary’s Catholic Women’s College Drops Plan to Begin Admitting Male Transgender Students

A private Catholic women’s college in Indiana has reversed plans to begin admitting male students who identify as women. In June, St. Mary’s College changed its policies to state it would consider admission of undergraduate applicants “whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women.” The policy would have, in effect, allowed for males who identify as transgender to be admitted into the college, which is located across the street from Notre Dame University. On Thursday, St. Mary’s College announced it had reversed the decision. In an email to the St. Mary’s college community obtained by the Catholic news site The Pillar, President Katie Conboy and Board Chair Maureen Karantz Smith said they had elected to reverse the policy allowing admissions of males who identify as transgender, citing the divisions the policy had created among the school’s community and alumni....