>>Sweet Briar College Adopts Policy Barring Transgender Students
(Amherst County, VA) -- A private college in Virginia has adopted a new admissions policy that will ban transgender applicants. Richard Stelling reports.Preview: Voicer Script:
Sweet Briar College is a private women's college located in Amherst County, about 15 miles north of Lynchburg. The school now requires all applicants to confirm that their sex assigned at birth was female. Officials say the new policy is based on founding documents that established the college as a place for the education of girls and young women. Critics have pointed out that the founding documents also required an all-white admissions policy, something that was overturned in court in the 1960s. The faculty senate has condemned the new policy urging the school's board to reverse the policy.