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Rachel Leingang

Trump administration investigates Smith College for admitting transgender women

a sign reads 'Smith College'
Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, on 19 October 20218. Photograph: John Greim/LightRocket/Getty Images

The US education department is investigating one of the country’s largest women’s colleges over its admittance of transgender women in another escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on trans people.

The department’s office of civil rights announced the investigation on Monday in a press release, saying the Massachusetts college could be violating federal law by “allowing biological males into women’s intimate spaces”, including dorms, bathrooms, locker rooms and sports teams.

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