{"id":625090,"date":"2026-05-05T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625090\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:04:08","slug":"smith-college-faces-federal-probe-for-admitting-trans-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625090\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith College faces federal probe for admitting trans students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NFXHM8V1UT43H53ZKYEXYEJ3TG\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Education Department has launched an investigation into Smith College, one of the nation\u2019s most well-known women\u2019s colleges, for its policy that allows transgender women to enroll.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"J7XR5N32AH7416RK5G0RXHEXE8\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The probe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-opens-title-ix-investigation-all-womens-smith-college-admitting-men\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced Monday<\/a>, could mark the start of a lengthy legal battle between the Trump administration and women\u2019s colleges that accept students who were assigned the male sex at birth but later self-identified as women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Education Department has launched an investigation into Smith College, one of the nation\u2019s most well-known women\u2019s colleges,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-625090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}