I think if you're going to allow people who entered as women and left as trans men to remain enrolled and graduate, then you've got to be consistent. What if somebody applies as a woman, is accepted, and then transitions to male spring and summer their senior year of high school? Are you going to rescind their admission? That'd be a fun public-relations circus. Okay, let's say that they decide to rescind admissions for that person. What if somebody applies as a woman, is accepted, and then begins transitioning the fall and winter of their freshman year? Will the college rescind their admission, even though the difference between the two cases can be stated literally in terms of a month?
It looks to me like right now, they'd admit a trans man who'd possibly started hormone treatments at any time during the admissions/acceptance/student/graduation process, but not had GRS. However, it is unclear to me if they'd rescind admission (or kick somebody out who was already enrolled) if that person managed to somehow magically afford GRS while in college. This is fascinating, and I want to confirm or deny that theory with the admissions office and powers that be.
One of the reasons that I want to confirm or deny their admittance criteria for FTM students is because then I think then there'd be more of a basis for understanding and hopefully clarifiying what BMC considers to be the real admittance "criteria" for "woman". Is it really "current state of genitalia," as I fear it might be? Would they accept an MTF woman who'd had hormone treatments, but not GRS? Would they only take a MTF woman if she'd had GRS? Why? When? If not, on what grounds can they admit an FTM student in the analogous but opposite position?
These are the questions I kind of want to start asking.
I'm also trying to network with some Smith students and alums who have apparently started a group to get Smith to take a look at these issues. :) Thanks for your support and thoughts.
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16/4/11 23:19 (UTC)I think if you're going to allow people who entered as women and left as trans men to remain enrolled and graduate, then you've got to be consistent. What if somebody applies as a woman, is accepted, and then transitions to male spring and summer their senior year of high school? Are you going to rescind their admission? That'd be a fun public-relations circus.
Okay, let's say that they decide to rescind admissions for that person. What if somebody applies as a woman, is accepted, and then begins transitioning the fall and winter of their freshman year? Will the college rescind their admission, even though the difference between the two cases can be stated literally in terms of a month?
It looks to me like right now, they'd admit a trans man who'd possibly started hormone treatments at any time during the admissions/acceptance/student/graduation process, but not had GRS. However, it is unclear to me if they'd rescind admission (or kick somebody out who was already enrolled) if that person managed to somehow magically afford GRS while in college. This is fascinating, and I want to confirm or deny that theory with the admissions office and powers that be.
One of the reasons that I want to confirm or deny their admittance criteria for FTM students is because then I think then there'd be more of a basis for understanding and hopefully clarifiying what BMC considers to be the real admittance "criteria" for "woman". Is it really "current state of genitalia," as I fear it might be? Would they accept an MTF woman who'd had hormone treatments, but not GRS? Would they only take a MTF woman if she'd had GRS? Why? When? If not, on what grounds can they admit an FTM student in the analogous but opposite position?
These are the questions I kind of want to start asking.
I'm also trying to network with some Smith students and alums who have apparently started a group to get Smith to take a look at these issues. :) Thanks for your support and thoughts.