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In August 2024 Sweet Briar announced that it would not accept transgender students. Recent changes to the [[Common Application] which Sweet Briar had used now list 4 possible genders, something the college found unacceptable saying that the change “presents a challenge both for students applying for admission and administrators and staff making admissions decisions.”<ref name="Moody">{{cite web |last1=Moody |first1=Josh |title=New Sweet Briar Policy Bars Transgender Students |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2024/08/28/new-sweet-briar-policy-bars-transgender-students |website=Inside Higher Ed |publisher=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |access-date=28 August 2024 |language=en |date=28 August 2024}}</ref>

College policy now says students can be admitted "if she confirms that her sex assigned at birth is female and that she consistently lives and identifies as a woman." Before this it just required a birth certificate. Sweet Briar's student government association and other campus groups have used social media to criticize the change.<ref name="Herald">{{cite news |title=Sweet Briar College Students Criticize New Admissions Policy as Transphobic |url=https://www.universityherald.com/articles/79208/20240819/sweet-briar-college-students-admissions-policy-transphobic-virginia.htm |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=University Herald |date=19 August 2024}}</ref>. On August 26, 2024, the Faculty Senate approved a resolution in favor of reversing the new policy, writing that transgender students "precisely the students who benefit from attending an institution that is historically dedicated to gender equity in a world where women were underserved and undervalued.”<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moody |first1=Josh |title=New Sweet Briar Policy Bars Transgender Students |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2024/08/28/new-sweet-briar-policy-bars-transgender-students |access-date=29 August 2024 |work=Inside Higher Ed}}</ref> [[John Gregory Brown]], chair of the faculty senate, described the new policy as "morally repugnant."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Moody |first1=Josh |title=New Sweet Briar Policy Bars Transgender Students |url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2024/08/28/new-sweet-briar-policy-bars-transgender-students |access-date=29 August 2024 |work=Inside Higher Ed}}</ref>

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