That means the new policy does not affect admissions at the university’s two other female-only colleges, Newnham College and Lucy Cavendish College. Germaine Greer, a feminist academic and a former lecturer at Newnham College who has argued that transgender women are not “real women,” criticized the decision by Murray Edwards. “The only sane thing for them to do is to cease discriminating on the basis of assigned gender of any kind.”Murray Edwards College is not the first prominent women’s school to allow the admission and enrollment of transgender women. In 2015, Barnard College, which is part of Columbia University in New York, said it would accept applications from transgender women (but not from transgender men or from students who identified with neither gender). “There are students who are transgender at the University of Cambridge already, and there have been for many, many years,” she said.

Source: New York Times October 04, 2017 16:52 UTC