Four More Women's Colleges Face Title IX Investigations

WASHINGTON - May 31, 2026 - PRLog -- The Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) disclosed that it had opened a investigation into Smith College for admitting biological men and for granting them access to women-only spaces in apparent violation of Title IX.

OCR has now advised that it is considering opening additional investigations against four more women's colleges based upon similar complaints.

They, together with the complaint file number, are:

■ Barnard College (02-26-2340): Considers applicants who consistently live and identify as women, regardless of gender assigned at birth.

■ Mount Holyoke College (01-26-2245): Welcomes female, transgender, and nonbinary students.

■ Simmons University (01-26-2246): Eligible: assigned female at birth, those who identify as women, or certain nonbinary applicants.

■ Wellesley College (01-26-2247): Considers those who live and consistently identify as women.

In announcing that it is investigating Smith College, OCR said:

"Title IX contains a single-sex exception that allows colleges to enroll all-male or all-female student bodies—but the exception applies on the basis of biological sex differences, not subjective gender identity.  An all-girls college that enrolls male students professing a female identity would cease to qualify as single sex under Title IX.   When an institution holds itself out as being an all-women's college, it is not just promising to deliver female-only dorms and bathrooms, and single-sex athletics; it is also committing to maintain a student body that makes possible a particular form of sorority and camaraderie.  . . .   An all-women's college loses all meaning if it is admitting biological males." [emphasis added]

Public interest law professor John Banzhaf explains that prohibiting males from attending all-women's colleges would also help address the problem of females being forced to compete against M2F transgender athletes in women's sporting events.

Banzhaf has won over 100 sex discrimination cases, forced the Cosmos Club to admit female members, the Citadel to admit female cadets, and the U.S. House of Representatives to construct a female restroom adjacent to the House floor.

He notes that the four complaints which can lead to additional federal investigations are based upon common sense as well as on the law, and points to the following logical analysis attributed to former president Abraham Lincoln, and subsequently adopted by noted investor Warren Buffett:

QUESTION: If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs does it have?
ANSWER:  Four, because calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

Similarly, calling an applicant with XY chromosomes - as well as a penis, testicles, and a prostate - a woman no more makes it a woman than calling a tail a leg makes it a leg, says Banzhaf.

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