Women’s college admissions and retention policies pertaining to transgender students
A comprehensive analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12973293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth R Boskey (0000-0002-4982-1323, corresponding author), Oren Ganor (0000-0001-6382-4320, Boston Children's Hospital) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 453-471 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of LGBT Youth (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1936-1653 • E-ISSN: 1936-1661 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19361653.2019.1685424 |
| OpenAlex | W2988771286 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
The growing visibility of transgender youth has led to increased attention on access to traditionally single-sex spaces—including those in higher education. One area that has sparked controversy is whether, and which, transgender students belong at women’s colleges. To assess the current status of this issue, women’s college policies around admitting and graduating transgender students were obtained for 33 of the 34 women’s colleges in the United States. Applications from transgender women would be considered by 21 schools solely on the basis of self-identification, six after specified types of transition, and three with unclear requirements. Transgender men could apply to six schools without limitations and five under limited circumstances. Seven schools required men who transitioned after admission to leave the college or transfer into a coeducational program. Schools with public facing gender policies, non-religious schools, and schools located in the Northeast were significantly less likely to restrict access to transgender students. This lack of consistency reflects the shifting sands of how gender identity is conceptualized in higher education. We recommend that women’s colleges examine how problematic discourses of sex and gender affect their policy development and explicitly address whether their policies on transgender students empower or imperil their missions
Consistency (knowledge bases · Gender identity · Medical education · Political science · Sociology · Transgender · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
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Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents
Public Accommodation Laws and Gender Panic in Clinical Settings
The Woman Question
Transgender and gender-expansive students’ experiences of genderism at women’s colleges and universities
Gender panics about transgender children in religious right discourse
The restroom and locker room wars
Which Gender is More Concerned About Transgender Women in Female Bathrooms
Womanhood does not reside in documentation”
Toward an inclusive model of lesbian identity development
Changing the frame
Successful women and women's colleges
The Battle Over Bathrooms
The Epistemology of Propaganda
Women's Colleges and Women's Career Attainments Revisited
The Value of Attending a Women's College
Womyn’s separatist spaces
Transpedagogies
Test of hypotheses
Transgender Adults' Access to College Bathrooms and Housing and the Relationship to Suicidality
Our College Is Changing
Moving Beyond Cis-terhood
Doing Gender, Determining Gender
Educational attainment of transgender adults
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |