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Students at an all-female college attended by Nora Ephron and Hillary Clinton will vote on whether it can admit trans male students who were born female in a tense referendum on Tuesday.

Wellesley College in Massachusetts already accepts admissions from 'anybody who lives and consistently identifies as a woman' including transgender females who were born male.

But now a landmark referendum - which has polarized students - will ask whether its application process should be open to individuals who were born women but now identify as transgender men.

Pupils are also being asked to vote on whether the college's communications should be made more gender inclusive - for example using words such as 'students' and 'alumni' instead of women.

The move has been opposed by Wellesley's president Paula Johnson who alleges it would rewrite its mission 'to provide an excellent liberal arts education to women.'

Wellesley College President Paula Johnson said the college was open to all students who 'consistently identify as women'

Wellesley College President Paula Johnson said the college was open to all students who 'consistently identify as women'

Johnson is pictured with Hilary Clinton in a commencement ceremony in 2017. Clinton attended the college between 1965 and 1969

Johnson is pictured with Hilary Clinton in a commencement ceremony in 2017. Clinton attended the college between 1965 and 1969

Johnson has vocally backed the admission of trans female students who were born male, explaining: 'This is who we are: a women’s college and a diverse community.'

But her stance has attracted the wrath of students who have staged an ongoing sit-in at the administration building. 

The student newspaper wrote in its editorial that they 'disapprove and entirely disagree' with what the president has outlined.

The newspaper has been fighting for the college to adopt more gender-inclusive language over the last year. 

In Spring 2021, it wrote to the College's administration to state 'we are not all Wellesley women.' 

'The Wellesley News Editorial Board is once again stating that transgender and nonbinary students have always belonged and will continue to belong at Wellesley, a historically women’s college,' its latest editorial read. 

Protesters point out that there are already trans men

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