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I'd be interested to know why Alex chose Bryn Mawr.  How does he define feminism, and how does Bryn Mawr's general take on feminsim clash or mesh with his definition? 

To answer question 3:

This reminds me of a Virginia Woolf notion that we are constantly categorizing, subcategorizing, re-ordering, listing; making sense of the space people are in to understand them.   I think to an extent we need to do this, and we are pre-wired to try to make sense of the environment and how people fall into it.  If we cuoldn't make sense of how things and people fit into spaces, we'd go crazy. For example:

Person 1: What's she like?

Person 2: She goes to Bryn Mawr, she's from California.  She's blonde.

So it is in this ongoing endeavor to make sense of people through categorizing that makes us so preoccupied with how well trans people "pass."  We want everyone to fit into sensical and familiar categories, and when they don't, it stresses us out.