by Brandon Poulter
A historic all-boys school in New York City will begin allowing trans students who identify as male, according to the New York Post.
Browning School is an elite K-12 school on the Upper East Side that costs $62,500 a year per student and was founded to educate Percy and John D. Rockefeller, according to the Post. The school will “consider for admission any child who (i) identifies as a boy or (ii) was assigned male at birth, who wishes to join a boys’ school and is well-served by our mission,” according to their website.
“As a school that proudly celebrates and affirms boys at every stage of their lives, we acknowledge that the many ways in which gender can be lived and expressed are vastly different now than at our founding in 1888,” read a recently written letter from the academy, according to the Post.
“We will not consider for admission a student who identifies as a girl at the time of application,” the school said, according to the Post.
The move angered one parent who spoke with the Post. “I would have had my kids attend any other school if I knew this was going to happen,” the parent told the Post.
A longtime member of Browning’s board of trustees suddenly resigned and criticized the school Saturday, saying “Browning has degenerated into a morass of dysfunction, misfeasance” in a letter posted on Instagram.
The move comes amidst controversy across the country regarding policies related to transgender students in schools. One Colorado school district trained nurses to hide gender transitions from parents. Another school refused to review a policy that directed female students to use another bathroom if they feel uncomfortable being in a bathroom with a transgender student.
Browning School did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
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Brandon Poulter is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
Photo “The Browning School” by browning.edu.
