Posted on 09/23/2023 4:33:08 PM PDT by lowbridge
This summer, the Daughters of the American Revolution changed its bylaws to allow men who identify as women to join the all-female historical society, angering some of its members.
DAR leaders passed an amendment stating that membership cannot be denied due to “[characteristics] protected by applicable law,” according to Newsweek.
DAR president general Pamela Wright clarified during the organization’s annual meeting in June that men who have their birth certificates altered to indicate that they are female are eligible for membership.
The new amendment also revoked the right of local chapters to decide if an applicant is “personally acceptable” for membership.
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Bren Landon, a spokeswoman for the DAR, told Newsweek the move protects the organization’s tax-exempt status.
“The new language does not change the criteria for membership,” Landon said. “DAR’s longstanding membership policy remains unchanged since our founding in 1890.”
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Applicants must prove their descent from “an ancestor who aided in achieving American independence,” according to the group’s website. There is a similar organization for men called the Sons of the American Revolution.
As the amendment was debated at the DAR’s 132nd Continental Congress, Jennifer Mease, a member of a Pennsylvania chapter, raised concerns about it with Wright.
Mease asked if chapters would have the right “not to admit … a person whose birth certificate has been altered by their state to indicate they are female even though they were born a male.”
Wright replied, “If a person’s certified birth certificate states ‘female,’ they are eligible for membership, and your chapter cannot change that.”
She added that “if you vote against them based on their protected class, it’s discrimination.”
Mease resigned from the DAR shortly after the proceedings, according to The Daily Signal.
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Holy Guano! I can’t join because I am adopted and the ancestry is on my adopted mom’s side. But being transgender is not a bar!?
Chill out. They’re patriots too. That is the daughters.
Insanity is a protected class?
Who knew?
Once again, the mentally challenged men pretending to be women are acting up.
So. If one is member of the Sons of the American Revolution and “transitions,” can that person apply for a Daughters of the American Revolution membership? Or does (s)he just compel the Sons to accept him as a woman?
The liberals turn everything to sh**. Hell, even country music and the U.S. Military are gone to sh**.
As a member, if I showed up in my Lilly Pulitzer dress and was conversing with the other similarly dressed women and a man in a beard with lipstick shows up with a miniskirt and his balls hanging down, I am peacing out.
They have Sons of the American Revolution that they are free to partake in. This is completely unnecessary.
“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
Exactly what we are seeing...........
Darn - I may just have to join to help vote this down.
Glad that I never joined.
I was going to do the SAR thing (Fort Watauga). I decided not to because of some of the idiotic things they do.
My uncle, mom aunt, grandma were all in it.
I told my uncle we should have gun fun and cookouts. The chapter in Dallas is full of cucks.
I’m out.
This is ‘Guinness Book of World Records’ stupid.
Remind me again who exactly was a crossdressing son of the American Revolution . . . ?
Many years ago I attended a local meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution as an introduction before applying for membership. Every one of the elderly ladies in attendance were very dressed well...skirts and blouses, dresses, no pantsuits in sight. I decided I couldn’t afford to buy the clothes I’d need to attend the meetings, so decided not to join. I’ve got Patriots and
Tories on my mother’s side of the family. I’m 76 now, and have no need to belong to any organization, not even the Republican party any longer.
Why not restrict membership to those who have XX Chromosomes?
Sadly, the DAR and SAR have lost sight.
Well, they’re being proactive. They’ll get sued over and over if they don’t.
Can a woman who now identifies as a man join the DAR?
Ping
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