The Browning School on the Upper East Side, a historic all-boys institution founded to educate the Rockefeller brothers, said it will now begin accepting trans students who identify as male.
“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,” the prestigious private Manhattan academy recently wrote in a letter to parents.
The elite K-12 school, which costs $62,500 a year, added on its website, “The Browning 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.”
“We will not consider for admission a student who identifies as a girl at the time of application,” the school also said.
Browning added that if an admitted student no longer identifies as a boy at a certain point, the school will work with them to ensure adequate accommodation.
This new gender policy is infuriating some of its uber-wealthy parents, and others.
Jacqueline Toboroff, an author advocate based in Manhattan, criticized the decision as the “death knell” for single-sex schools.
“People specifically send their kids to single-sex schools for very unique reasons,” Toboroff told The New York Post.
