Daughters of the American Revolution Causes Revolt by Allowing Transgender Members

Western Journal ^ | September 23, 2023 | Dwight Stone

[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.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

There is no way there would have been a USA, if such nut cases would have a hand or even a pinky finger in the American Revolution. How stupid are the leadership groups of all these organizations not to fight yooth and nsil sgainst the clever phalanx intent on destroying Western Civilization. What they are doing is exactly that. Nothing good can come from giving in to one’s sworn enemy.

[Beowulf9]

Why is everyone so stupid these days? The water must have stupid pills in it or something. Bow to the trends. Ugh. Wake up you morons!

[Myrddin]

My wife worked for months to secure the documentation to be part of DAR. The parties evaluating the paperwork said she didn't qualify because some of those documented were Quakers. My paternal grandmother was a DAR member. I had no daughters, so it's no longer relevant.

[Myrddin]

My paternal grandmother was active in DAR and the Mayflower Society. Her diligence in documenting the family history gave me a good start. The family tree goes back many generations now with almost 20,000 people.

The Ancestry DNA project has my genetics as 31% Scot, 29% Welsh, 14% Irish. There is a little English, Norwegian and Finnish in the remainder. My wife's Welsh ancestry traces to the same general west Wales area (coastal from Aberystwyth to Pembroke). I haven't pinned down the Scot origins in Scotland, but they were part of the Scots that emigrated to North Carolina. The Outlander series includes that community. Fiction wrapped in some actual history.

[Rappini]

There’s got to be something in the freaking water.

[bobbo666]

What a pack of idiots. You have to prove that you are descended from original “founders” to be in DAR. Change bylaws to require DNA test.

Easy peazy.

There are straightforward solutions to all of this crappola. Apparently the DAR is lacking a pair in every meaning of the word.