Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, recently stated that it will consider allowing biological males to attend college if they have a history of identifying as female.
President Katie Conboy informed faculty in an email Tuesday about the policy change, according to Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer.
“Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as female,” Conboy emailed.
While the university is reportedly still determining the practices that will result from the policy change, admissions will begin considering transgender applicants in fall 2024.
A campus newspaper reported that Conboy previously convened a “President’s Task Force on Gender Identity and Expression” that is tasked with developing recommendations for housing and possible education around “Catholic identity and women’s college identity.” “.
Conboy’s email reportedly cited His Holiness Pope Francis to justify the policy.
“Pope Francis advocates love as the appropriate approach to those who are different from us: ‘Love, then, is more than a simple series of benevolent actions. These actions have their origin in a union increasingly directed towards others, considering them valuable, worthy, pleasant and beautiful regardless of their physical or moral appearances. Our love for others, for who they are, moves us to seek the best for their lives,” the email supposedly said.
Earlier this year, Pope Francis told journalist Elisabetta Piqué of the Argentine newspaper La Nación that “gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations.”
President Katie Conboy informed faculty in an email Tuesday about the policy change, according to Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer. Saint Mary’s College / Youtube
“Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs the differences and value of men and women,” she added.
He also noted that there is a big difference between caring for people who identify as transgender and actually supporting their values, noting the contrast “between what pastoral care is for people who have a different sexual orientation and what gender ideology is. ”.
The university received criticism for its decision from current students and some alumni.
“St. Mary’s College is no longer Catholic,” Saint Mary’s junior Claire Bettag told The Daily Signal. “It is no longer a women’s institution. This is, at best, a fraudulent misrepresentation. Every student should be entitled to a refund for fraudulent misrepresentation. A lawyer should file a class action lawsuit against the university. They have abandoned their faith and abandoned women. No woman should be forced to share a bathroom or living quarters with a man”.
While the university is reportedly still determining the practices that will result from the policy change, admissions will begin considering transgender applicants in fall 2024.Google Earth
Some alumni spoke out against the school’s decision on social media.
“This decision is blasphemous and a complete rejection of the Church and its teachings on gender and sexuality,” wrote Clare Anne Ath.
“I chose @saintmarys because of its mission to serve as a Catholic women’s college,” wrote education reform activist Shannon Pahls. “This decision is a complete abandonment of that. Extremely disappointed in my alma mater.”
“I am deeply disappointed as a @saintmarys student by this decision. The school has betrayed its Catholic mission,” wrote Lisa Budzynski Ezell, vice president and director of the Federalist Society’s law chapters. In a separate post, she said the policy change is “not a surprise” and that “I hope other alumnae speak out and hold back donations.”
Lisa Budzynski Ezell, vice president of the Federalist Society and director of attorney chapters, wrote. In a separate post, she said the policy change is “not a surprise” and that “I hope other alumnae speak out and hold back donations.” Education reform activist Shannon Pahls shared her thoughts on the report. “This decision is blasphemous and a complete rejection of the Church and its teachings on gender and sexuality,” wrote Clare Anne Ath.
The university has battled with social conservatives in the past over transgender issues.
According to The Daily Signal, the university “denied the founding of a Turning Point USA chapter” because the conservative group’s messages on biological sex did not “align” with the Catholic university’s mission.
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