Hallelujah! I'd like to imagine that they thought about it and realized that their decision just didn't make sense and guidance from their bishop influenced them, but I also imagine that some large donors pulled their support and they had to recind or lose money. Sorry to be so jaded.
To me that doesn't seem jaded, but just realistic. Influential wealthy donors who are faithful to Catholic teaching are probably the only thing that keep most of the remaining true Catholic colleges/universities, "Catholic" these days.
I expect many parents would be less than enthusiastic about their daughters sharing quarters with a man who checked the “female identity” box. Enough scandals have come to light to show a selection bias on which transwomen adamantly invade women’s spaces
p.s. when my daughter was a Berkeley, she was comfortable with explicitly co-ed quarters but eschewed the non-binary bathroom, even when it meant going to a different floor. Like I said, selection bias.
How sad that St. Mary's College is apparently not enthusiastic about the Good News of Jesus Christ, the proclamation of which "is what it means to be a part of a vibrant Catholic campus". All else is secondary, both "in this moment" and in the future.
Where is the link between being catholic 'in a changing world" (whatever that means) and being trans? That is a women's college, the fact that it is catholic is neither here nor there.
Thoughts and prayers to the president, Ms Con-boy. You couldn't make up that name in this situation.
That there is what you call a Bud Lite moment. You know, it's when the little "lite" clicks on over an ideologue's head and, alarmed, she realizes that she has really, really alienated the people paying her bills.
The comments from the administrator read like they didnt actually think they made the wrong policy choice, rather that they made a procedural error. I am not comforted.
This is hopeful. It opens the possibility that administrators of universities and colleges can admit they were wrong and actually stop what they're doing. There are so few examples of this in recent weeks, so it's good to see better examples given at Catholic institutions.
On the other hand, the president's words indicate that she thinks this is all just a matter of broadening consensus and not a matter of a principled search for truth. It is telling that the bishop is not mentioned. I wonder if he will be a "dialogue partner" in future considerations.
Final tentative thought: There are very rare circumstances when a person is plausibly described as being of physically indeterminate sex. This is what is meant by the intersex medical diagnosis: disorders of sexual development. (This is not to deny that one can reach a definition of a person's sex through other non-superficial means.) These cases are so rare that an administration could easily make case by case determinations without establishing broad identity policies. That the preference in this case seemed to have been the latter makes me suspicious of the original intentions of this university.
The result is good. I'm glad to see people fighting back against this and winning.
But that statement.
*Woof.*
It's as vapid as it is manipulative.
"Season of Solstice"? It's Advent, you silly loons.
And all the robotic cant about the Magi and Gospel and Christian values is just another example of how ideologically numbed bureaucrats mechanically lift words and language that mean real and particular things to real and particular people and contexts and then use them to mean literally opposite things that conform to their stripped down, secular worldview.
These two women know that admitting cross dressing men to a women's college is utterly contrary to actual Catholic Christian values. But they've been trained in Admin Speak, and their brains have been washed out with acidic hubris of modern, administrative Girl Boss culture, where they are constantly told how fabulous and important they are for posturing, so they don't care. They have no intellectual or moral attachment to language, meaning, or reality, because the culture of modern academia does not require it to advance, but instead incentivizes the ability to elegantly bullsh*t.
Higher Ed Administration needs to be just burnt down as a profession.
(Speaking as someone who used to work for a university.)
Believe it or not....and to the surprise of the St Mary's leadership and board apparently....many women (and men) who otherwise consider themselves to be quite progressive and feminist, are vehement opponents of biological men declaring themselves to be women and invading all-women's schools, women's locker rooms & bathrooms, living at the local YWCA or a women's homeless shelter, etc
I bet these weren't just arch-conservative alumni & donors to SMC up in arms over this new policy.
Glad to see this misguided decision came crashing down in a fiery ball ☄️ ....don't doubt that they will continue to try these sorts of things however....
// The new policy, which was approved by the board of trustees in June, would admit undergraduate students “whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women.” //
No change at all. A male is a male. Even someone who's gone the whole nine yards and messed up his body royally is simply a male who's tried to change his sex.
Catholicism has all but officially surrendered the self-evident truth in order to please the currently badly warped establishment morality. It is to weep.
After reading so much about Harvard, generous donor Bill Ackerman, and its now ex-president, Claudine Gay, I would sure like to know whator who moved Katie Conboy to reverse her announcement.
Hallelujah! I'd like to imagine that they thought about it and realized that their decision just didn't make sense and guidance from their bishop influenced them, but I also imagine that some large donors pulled their support and they had to recind or lose money. Sorry to be so jaded.
To me that doesn't seem jaded, but just realistic. Influential wealthy donors who are faithful to Catholic teaching are probably the only thing that keep most of the remaining true Catholic colleges/universities, "Catholic" these days.
I expect many parents would be less than enthusiastic about their daughters sharing quarters with a man who checked the “female identity” box. Enough scandals have come to light to show a selection bias on which transwomen adamantly invade women’s spaces
p.s. when my daughter was a Berkeley, she was comfortable with explicitly co-ed quarters but eschewed the non-binary bathroom, even when it meant going to a different floor. Like I said, selection bias.
The oldest and best journalistic advice - follow the money.
They changed nothing.
How sad that St. Mary's College is apparently not enthusiastic about the Good News of Jesus Christ, the proclamation of which "is what it means to be a part of a vibrant Catholic campus". All else is secondary, both "in this moment" and in the future.
One, holy, catholic, APOSTOLIC church. This is not secondary to external fads.
Top-notch headline!
Where is the link between being catholic 'in a changing world" (whatever that means) and being trans? That is a women's college, the fact that it is catholic is neither here nor there.
Thoughts and prayers to the president, Ms Con-boy. You couldn't make up that name in this situation.
I have been praying for the SMC BOT to correct their initial decision. Seems like they just did. God answers prayer!
That there is what you call a Bud Lite moment. You know, it's when the little "lite" clicks on over an ideologue's head and, alarmed, she realizes that she has really, really alienated the people paying her bills.
The comments from the administrator read like they didnt actually think they made the wrong policy choice, rather that they made a procedural error. I am not comforted.
Correct. They fiddled with the language, but they are still planning to admit males.
Some good news in a hard week. Praise the Lord. Truly.
Good
This is hopeful. It opens the possibility that administrators of universities and colleges can admit they were wrong and actually stop what they're doing. There are so few examples of this in recent weeks, so it's good to see better examples given at Catholic institutions.
On the other hand, the president's words indicate that she thinks this is all just a matter of broadening consensus and not a matter of a principled search for truth. It is telling that the bishop is not mentioned. I wonder if he will be a "dialogue partner" in future considerations.
Final tentative thought: There are very rare circumstances when a person is plausibly described as being of physically indeterminate sex. This is what is meant by the intersex medical diagnosis: disorders of sexual development. (This is not to deny that one can reach a definition of a person's sex through other non-superficial means.) These cases are so rare that an administration could easily make case by case determinations without establishing broad identity policies. That the preference in this case seemed to have been the latter makes me suspicious of the original intentions of this university.
Can't they just do a blessing over everyone (but not a FORMAL blessing of course...) and it's all good?
The result is good. I'm glad to see people fighting back against this and winning.
But that statement.
*Woof.*
It's as vapid as it is manipulative.
"Season of Solstice"? It's Advent, you silly loons.
And all the robotic cant about the Magi and Gospel and Christian values is just another example of how ideologically numbed bureaucrats mechanically lift words and language that mean real and particular things to real and particular people and contexts and then use them to mean literally opposite things that conform to their stripped down, secular worldview.
These two women know that admitting cross dressing men to a women's college is utterly contrary to actual Catholic Christian values. But they've been trained in Admin Speak, and their brains have been washed out with acidic hubris of modern, administrative Girl Boss culture, where they are constantly told how fabulous and important they are for posturing, so they don't care. They have no intellectual or moral attachment to language, meaning, or reality, because the culture of modern academia does not require it to advance, but instead incentivizes the ability to elegantly bullsh*t.
Higher Ed Administration needs to be just burnt down as a profession.
(Speaking as someone who used to work for a university.)
Believe it or not....and to the surprise of the St Mary's leadership and board apparently....many women (and men) who otherwise consider themselves to be quite progressive and feminist, are vehement opponents of biological men declaring themselves to be women and invading all-women's schools, women's locker rooms & bathrooms, living at the local YWCA or a women's homeless shelter, etc
I bet these weren't just arch-conservative alumni & donors to SMC up in arms over this new policy.
Glad to see this misguided decision came crashing down in a fiery ball ☄️ ....don't doubt that they will continue to try these sorts of things however....
// The new policy, which was approved by the board of trustees in June, would admit undergraduate students “whose sex is female or who consistently live and identify as women.” //
No change at all. A male is a male. Even someone who's gone the whole nine yards and messed up his body royally is simply a male who's tried to change his sex.
Catholicism has all but officially surrendered the self-evident truth in order to please the currently badly warped establishment morality. It is to weep.
After reading so much about Harvard, generous donor Bill Ackerman, and its now ex-president, Claudine Gay, I would sure like to know whator who moved Katie Conboy to reverse her announcement.