Yeah, this. I would be 100% behind trying to get Bryn Mawr to admit MTF women, but I think that being a women's college and admitting FTM men is contradictory... it makes sense only if one is considering trans people to not "really" be the sex/gender they are/are transitioning to. I mean, if Bryn Mawr is admitting trans men (who know that they're men when they apply), then either a) it's admitting men, and so is not a women's college, or b) is saying that these people are not really men, so it's still a women's college for women.
Now, I have mixed opinions about places being single-sex in the first place; on the one hand, it reinforces a binary, on the other hand, it was nice not to go to college with a lot of people who had been socialized to shout over me in class and had not had any reason to question that socialization. So... it's super-complicated.
I think Bryn Mawr would be more consistent to either a) admit trans women but not trans men, just as it admits cis women but not cis men, or b) radically redefine itself as a college, possibly as "college for people who are disadvantaged by the patriarchy in various ways." (Though the patriarchy is not great for straight cis-men either, in many ways, but still...)
That said: go you for wanting to work on this, and I think it is important and cool work! I just think you might want to very carefully think through your premises before you take action.
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16/4/11 14:19 (UTC)a) it's admitting men, and so is not a women's college, or
b) is saying that these people are not really men, so it's still a women's college for women.
Now, I have mixed opinions about places being single-sex in the first place; on the one hand, it reinforces a binary, on the other hand, it was nice not to go to college with a lot of people who had been socialized to shout over me in class and had not had any reason to question that socialization. So... it's super-complicated.
I think Bryn Mawr would be more consistent to either a) admit trans women but not trans men, just as it admits cis women but not cis men, or b) radically redefine itself as a college, possibly as "college for people who are disadvantaged by the patriarchy in various ways." (Though the patriarchy is not great for straight cis-men either, in many ways, but still...)
That said: go you for wanting to work on this, and I think it is important and cool work! I just think you might want to very carefully think through your premises before you take action.