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Trump administration investigating Smith College over transgender admissions
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The Trump administration is raising the question of whether allowing transgender women to enrol at a women’s college violates civil rights protections for women.
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Michael C. Bender
WASHINGTON – The US education department has opened a civil rights investigation into whether Smith College, the women’s school in Northampton, Massachusetts, violated anti-discrimination laws by allowing transgender students to enrol.
The inquiry broadens the Trump administration’s bid to limit rights for the nation’s transgender students by targeting school admissions for the first time. Until now, the administration had mostly focused on policies that allowed transgender women to participate in women’s sports and use women’s bathrooms.
