2 Catholic Colleges Add Nonbinary Policy

A pair of Catholic institutions in Minnesota—the College of St. Benedict, a women’s college, and St. John’s University, a men’s college—instituted a new admissions policy over the summer that will allow students who identify as nonbinary to attend either college, regardless of the gender they were assigned at birth.
Transgender men and women had already been allowed to attend St. John’s and St. Benedict, respectively, since 2016. But the new policy, which was updated in July according to the colleges’ joint website, explicitly welcomes students who “consistently live and identify” as “gender fluid or nonbinary” to study at either college.