"An all-girls college in Massachusetts has announced it will allow men – but only if they identify as female.

Mount Holyoke, founded in 1837, has an acceptance rate of young women below 50 percent for approximately 2,300 liberal arts students. And now men who identify as women have a shot at admittance, which was announced at the school's September 3 convocation.

The school's website defended the change by declaring that "concepts of what it means to be a woman are not static," even though the same website touts the benefits of attending an all-female college...

The school's website lists a new wide range of allowances at Mount Holyoke, including men who identify as "other," if that "other" includes woman.

The only students who are not allowed to attend, the website states, are men who identify as a man.

Beckwith suggests that students attending Mount Holyoke who are unhappy about the new policy are not likely to complain.

"Because there is a real fear of being harassed as 'transphobic,' bigoted or closed-minded," he says.

But some people aren't afraid to ask. The school's Facebook page was filled with congratulations and "likes," but one person pointed out the obvious: the school is admitting men into its classrooms.

"They just have to feel like they're women," that person wrote.

"That is correct," someone responded, "and most of the females on here that are excusing it are functionally stupid and deluded."

One student tweeted: "I applied for an all-women's college, I paid for an all-women's college, and I expect to attend an all-women's college. Mount Holyoke is no longer fulfilling their end of the bargain.""

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I was under the impression colleges, being institutions which serve the general public, could not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, etc., etc., or are some institutions exempt from such laws? This discriminatory practice, I also note, is taking place in the morally superior People's Republic of Massachusetts. Fancy that.