Feds Probe Smith College Over Transgender Admissions Policy
The Spin
Right narrative
The OCR's investigation is necessary following legitimate concerns that Smith College violated Title IX by admitting biological males and giving them access to women-only dorms, bathrooms and locker rooms, spaces the law explicitly protects for female students. By upholding these practices, Smith has broken the single-sex exception, losing all legal standing.
Left narrative
Smith's inclusive admissions policy is no crime; rather, it reflects a decade of deliberate study, faculty input and legal consultation, which rightly judged that the admission of trans women was a natural extension of the college's founding purpose. The investigation, therefore, is nothing but another attempt by this administration to target a vulnerable community with relentless, gaslighting rhetoric.
