An all-women’s Catholic college in Notre Dame, Indiana will now allow men who identify as women to enroll in their undergraduate program starting in the fall of 2024.
Saint Mary’s College revised its non-discrimination policy in June to allow for “undergraduate applicants whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women.”
President Katie Conboy told faculty last week in an email the College is still determining the practices that will follow from the policy, The Observer first reported.
“We are by no means the first Catholic women’s college to adopt a policy with this scope,” Conboy wrote. “In drafting the language for this update, I have relied on the guidance of the Executive Team and others to ensure that our message is not only in line with best practices for today’s college students but that it also encompasses our commitment to operate as a Catholic women’s college.”
Earlier this year, Conboy assembled a “President’s Task Force for Gender Identity and Expression” to gather information from other Catholic colleges and to make recommendations for student housing policies.
Saint Mary’s is one of 32 active women’s colleges in the U.S., according to the Women’s College Coalition.
Conboy wrote in an
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