The Education Department investigates the venerable women’s school for admitting transgender women and granting them access to “women-only” spaces like dorms. A Smith College scholar shows how Trump’s perverse probe fits a conservative Republican pattern.
Carrie N. Baker
Carrie N. Baker, JD, PhD, is the Bauman Professor of American Studies and chair of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Smith College. She is the author of Abortion Pills: U.S. History and Politics, available through open access from Amherst College Press.
How Reproductive Freedom Advocates Outsmarted the Anti-Abortion Movement
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the number of abortions is up because of telehealth and the free sharing of mifepristone and misoprostol.
“Universities Are the Enemy”: The Dark Belief Behind Project 2025’s Higher Education Agenda
The infamous 887-page policy manual linked to Donald Trump and J.D. Vance aims to take Ron DeSantis’s war against liberal arts education nationwide

