CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 14:52 pm
Saint Mary’s College — a Catholic women’s school in Notre Dame, Indiana — is reversing its controversial transgender admissions policy, the school’s president revealed in an email on Thursday.
President Katie Conboy had last month confirmed a new transgender-friendly admissions policy for the college, stating that the institution would consider not just women but any students who “consistently live and identify as women.”
The policy drew criticism and backlash, including from Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades, who said the policy was “at odds with Catholic teaching” and who urged the school to reverse the decision.
In an email obtained by CNA on Thursday, Conboy — along with the chair of the school’s board of trustees, Maureen Smith — said the college would “return to our previous admission policy.”