The issue of whether to allow colleges and universities in Massachusetts to offer three-year bachelor's degrees, reducing the typical 120-credit requirement, continues to raise questions among members of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
“Obviously Mid Vermont is unhappy with the outcome. The court accepts without reservation the sincerity of the school's commitment to traditional views of gender and sexuality.”
-- Judge Geoffrey Crawford, U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, opinion denying of Mid Vermont Christian School’s motion for a temporary injunction, June 11, 2024
“… whether someone truly has a sexual identity that's different from their sex that they're assigned at their birth …”
-- Unidentified judge from a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, oral arguments, Mid Christian Vermont School vs. Bouchey, Wednesday, April 9, 2025