Timothy Boatwright, who was born female but identifies as male, got along perfectly well at the all-women Wellesley College, until Wellesley students decided he couldn’t be Multicultural Affairs Coordinator: they said it felt “inappropriate to have a white man there.”

Katherine Timpf at The National Review has the story:

Students: Transgender Woman Can’t Be Diversity Officer Because She’s a White Man Now

A student who was born female felt perfectly comfortable identifying as a man at Wellesley College — until people said he shouldn’t be class diversity officer because he is now a white male.

By all accounts, Boatwright felt welcome on campus — until the day he announced that he wanted to run for the school’s office of multicultural affairs coordinator, whose job is to promote a “culture of diversity” on campus.

But some students thought that allowing Boatwright to have the position would just perpetuate patriarchy. They were so opposed, in fact, that when the other three candidates (all women of color) dropped out, they started an anonymous Facebook campaign encouraging people not to vote at all to keep him from winning the position.

“I thought he’d do a perfectly fine job, but it just felt inappropriate to have a white man there,” the student behind the so-called “Campaign to Abstain” said.

“It’s not just about that position either,” the student added. “Having men in elected leadership positions undermines the idea of this being a place where women are the leaders.”