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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My wife has been uncertain for decades about finally putting in her application for the DAR - her aunt had done all the genealogical research in the 1980s.
Good question.
When I was a kid, I got dragged out of school to dress up as a young George Washington to be paraded in front of a bunch of old women imbibing mint julips... I was young and glad to not be in school...(not all of them were old...)
Well, I’m glad I never turned in my application. It’s one less thing I have to quit. I guess nothing is sacred any more.
Daughters-ish
There is nothing these degenerates won’t crap on and will NEVER stop until they destroy everything around them.
Disgusting.
The PA chapter of SAR to which I belong is pretty good.
My grandmother was in the DAR. She was upset when my mom didn’t want to join. My mom thought they were all stuck up snoots.
I guess they are just weirdos.
That's an interesting question. Does the tranny get to choose which organization to join?
How long before we see both groups merge into "Descendents of the American Revolution"?
Well, that is good.
The Dallas SAR, smeh...
They like to play dress-up in their blue coats and tri-point hats.. they might as well wear dresses...
I would join, but there better be bar-b-q and guns. Otherwise it’s just mental masterbation.
Just sad.
Where’s all the fake feminists rushing forward to protect women?
Bahahaha they’re all fake libtards
NASCAR
Must not forget Nascar!🥴
"But beingtransgendera man is not a bar!?"
It all makes sense now. Thanks.
I wonder if the Colonial Dames will also accept mutilated men.
Stick a fork in it.
-PJ
I was thinking of joining but not now
nope
not happening
The 19th amendment was a mistake.
Bigly.
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