A Rhode Island school says it won’t accept or enroll transgender students.
>Catholic Rhode Island private school Mount Saint Charles Academy is open to everyone—so long as they’re not transgender.
>The latest edition of the Woonsocket school’s parent-student handbook states flatly and without further explanation: “Mount Saint Charles Academy is unable to make accommodations for transgender students. Therefore, MSC does not accept transgender students nor is MSC able to continue to enroll students who identify as transgender.”
>There are no stated exclusions based on race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other factor—only transgender status.
>The change was implemented in October 2015 but concerned alumni only noticed it recently, GoLocalProv reported. David Coletta, who graduated from MSC in 2009, created a Change.org petition to ask the school to “leave the hateful rhetoric in the past [and] accept trans students.”
>Coletta told The Daily Beast that the MSC he knew would never ban transgender students and that the current policy “goes against their own teachings.”
>“It’s completely different than how they teach their students to behave,” he said. “We were always taught there to be very accepting and loving of others.”
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