Calliope Wong, a high school senior from Connecticut, has twice sent an application to the prestigious all-female Smith College, but her papers have been returned without even an official admissions review.
It's not her grades or SAT scores, but her self-identity as a transgender female.
Wong, 17, was born male, which her family indicated on her federal application for financial aid in order to coincide with her Social Security number. But her admission materials describe her as female.
Smith has told her it cannot process her admission application as a female because the gender markers on her forms conflict.
