{"id":2620890,"date":"2026-06-29T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daughters-of-the-american-revolution-betrays-its-mission-by-rejecting-resolution-to-keep-its-ranks-female\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T15:20:14","slug":"daughters-of-the-american-revolution-betrays-its-mission-by-rejecting-resolution-to-keep-its-ranks-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daughters-of-the-american-revolution-betrays-its-mission-by-rejecting-resolution-to-keep-its-ranks-female\/","title":{"rendered":"DAR Betrays Mission By Letting Men Join"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdaughters-of-the-american-revolution-betrays-its-mission-by-rejecting-resolution-to-keep-its-ranks-female%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2620890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), a major patriotic womenS organization, recently voted against a resolution that would have restricted membership exclusively to women born female. The vote occurred during the 135th Continental Congress in Washington, D.C., with 1,481 members opposing and 984 supporting the resolution. As an inevitable result, the organization will continue to admit men with altered birth certificates who meet genealogical criteria, despite previous efforts by members to maintain a women-only membership. This decision has angered many members who fought to preserve the organization&#8217;s original gender-specific mission and has led to internal disagreements, protests, and fundraising efforts to challenge the leadership\u2019s stance. Critics argue that the leadership&#8217;s rejection of a gender-based definition and acceptance of transgender men undermine the DAR\u2019s founding principles and have caused a wave of resignations from chapters across the U.S. Efforts to revisit the issue with future meetings are underway, with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >pro-male-inclusion groups seeking<\/a> to influence policy and protect their vision of the organization.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the largest patriotic women\u2019s nonprofits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dar.org\/discover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the world<\/a>, betrayed its female-centric mission when it voted Friday to reject a resolution that would protect the organization from infiltration by males with altered birth certificates.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution to limit membership to women, defined as \u201cborn female,\u201d was defeated on June 26 in a 1,481 to 984 vote at the society\u2019s 135th Continental Congress at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The results ensure that, instead of keeping membership eligibility to \u201cAny woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution,\u201d the DAR will continue to permit men who meet the organization\u2019s genealogical requirements and have a modified birth certificate to join chapters across the U.S. The defeat comes just one week ahead of the\u00a0250th\u00a0anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p>Laura McDonald, treasurer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/texas-daughters-american-revolution-chapter-challenges-premise-must-admit-transgender-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martha Laird DAR chapter<\/a> in Mount Pleasant, Texas, and founder of the Daughters Advocating for Restoration, an organization dedicated to protecting the DAR\u2019s female-only membership, told The Federalist that the voting members were told \u201cthe DAR does not have a First Amendment Right to define membership eligibility,\u201d even though the Center for American Liberty previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/826384115\/Center-for-American-Liberty-DAR-Letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confirmed<\/a> that the DAR \u201cwould have a strong First Amendment defense\u201d for limiting membership to women. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy not providing an alternative opinion, we feel as though our officers\u2019 Fiduciary Duty to make sure members are informed was breached,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>DAR President General Ginnie Sebastian Storage followed the Friday vote with a note reminding members that \u201cthe decision of the voting members reflects the considered judgment of the membership assembled at the Continental Congress, and it deserves our respect.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Storage, a member of the DAR\u2019s trans activism Facebook group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/744599598584264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daughters for Inclusivity<\/a>, did not mention the resolution\u2019s contents directly. Instead, she encouraged members to \u201cmove forward as one National Society, united in purpose and committed to the mission that has guided us for 135 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo any member who has felt discouraged or unwelcome: you are, and remain, a valued Daughter,\u201d Storage added. <\/p>\n<p>The vote and Storage\u2019s attempt to brush past its implications serves as a shocking blow to the hundreds of DAR members, including those who have fought for years against national leadership to protect their female-only organization from infiltration by biological men pretending to be women. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vote that took place last week was supposed to happen on October 11, 2026, at a special meeting of the society,\u00a0separate and apart from any regularly scheduled meeting, and called by over 90 chapters in 33 states,\u00a0to focus solely on this issue,\u201d McDonald said. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, she said the DAR\u2019s National Board of Management \u201cadded this as an agenda item for Continental Congress,\u00a0bypassing the requirement that 100% of the membership must be notified about this resolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, only about 3% of the membership were notified, and many members were confused and pre-occupied with Congress activities,\u201d McDonald said. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The DAR was founded in 1890 after the 1889 (SAR) <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CkkcA8ywe40?si=bM38zvY6XpKIGaQW&#038;t=31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voted to exclude women from their patriotic organization<\/a>. It <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CkkcA8ywe40?si=0UTDS3-dn-cvmUGb&#038;t=169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explicitly<\/a> exists to create a society \u201cthat would harness a desire for service that would help usher in the progressive era in the United States and create a legacy for future generations of women.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>To this day, the Sons of the American Revolution firmly limits its membership to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sar.org\/step-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">males<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/18\/dar-patriots-fight-to-defend-historic-womens-society-from-men-pretending-to-be-ladies\/\">Since 2023<\/a>, however, the DAR has officially, sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/06\/men-are-quietly-erasing-americas-true-daughters-of-the-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">without the knowledge of its members<\/a>, welcomed men with altered birth certificates to its chapters across the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>One of those men, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/744599598584264\/user\/503735551\">a self-described \u201ctrans daughter,\u201d<\/a> celebrated the resolution\u2019s failure on Friday shortly after the vote. Storage \u201cloved\u201d the post. <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>At least a dozen of DAR chapters tried to reject transing of their female-only organization by proposing amendments requiring members to prove their sex with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tenn-gov-lee-transgender-athletes-would-destroy-womens-sports\/\" title=\"Tenn. Gov. Lee: Transgender athletes would \u2018destroy wo...\u2019s sports\u2019\">original birth certificate<\/a> or DNA testing. The proposals satisfied the DAR\u2019s bylaw standards for national review, but were <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/11\/women-flee-daughters-of-the-american-revolution-after-it-admits-men\/\">unanimously rejected by the DAR\u2019s National Board of Management in 2024.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In a letter obtained by The Federalist, DAR claimed to the Nevada Sagebrush Chapter that limiting membership to females only is not \u201csuitable subject matter for inclusion in the bylaws and is not in the best interests of the society.\u201d In another internal DAR document obtained by The Federalist, DAR leadership insisted \u201ca transgender woman is not a man\u201d and is \u201calso not a man simply dressed as a woman.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The national leadership\u2019s commitment to accommodating delusional men at the expense of its core mission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/jun\/24\/transgender-showdown-looms-daughters-american-revolutions-annual\/\">prompted an exodus of thousands of members<\/a> from several of its chapters. As I <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/11\/women-flee-daughters-of-the-american-revolution-after-it-admits-men\/\">documented<\/a> in 2024, some DAR members were torn between resigning from the organization and staying involved so they could create opportunities to overturn the damaging policy. <\/p>\n<p>Those who stayed in the DAR tried again in early 2025 to limit membership to women, defined as \u201ca biological female at conception, having only naturally occurring X chromosomes, exclusive of Y chromosomes, and certified as female or girl on the original birth certificate.\u201d DAR\u2019s National Board of Management again rejected the bylaw amendment as \u201c[un]suitable subject matter for inclusion in the bylaws and not to be in the best interests of the National Society\u201d and refused to put it forward for a vote at the society\u2019s Continental Congress.<\/p>\n<p>By 2026, a coalition of frustrated DAR members led by McDonald successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/darestoration\/status\/2037599076296876103?s=20\">proposed a resolution<\/a> that explicitly bars men, even if they have modified their birth certificates to appear female, from membership eligibility. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite State and National Officers many attempts to silence the Assembly, Daughters all across the country have relentlessly pursued all avenues and have succeeded in their demand for a historic vote,\u201d the Daughters Advocating for Restoration <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/darestoration\/status\/2049150526084854126?s=20\">announced in April.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the June 26 vote, the Daughters Advocating for Restoration hosted a rally attended by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/06\/25\/hundreds-rally-to-preserve-daughters-of-the-american-revolution-for-actual-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 200 members<\/a>. Despite the vote\u2019s outcome, the Daughters Advocating for Restoration aren\u2019t backing down.<\/p>\n<p>According to McDonald, the Daughters Advocating for Restoration are \u201cstill waiting for the President General to fulfill her duty to call a Special Meeting scheduled for October 11, 2026,\u00a0in which all members must be notified of this resolution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this meeting we hope to be able to present a differing opinion so that members can make informed decisions,\u201d McDonald said. <\/p>\n<p>The Daughters Advocating for Restoration have raised more $56,000 to fund their goal to save the DAR from male infiltration. Approximately $30,000 of those funds came in on Sunday, shortly after the DAR\u2019s vote. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe raised more in one day than in 10 months,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-cruelty-is-the-point-folks\/\" title=\"The Cruelty Is the Point, Folks\">award-winning staff writer<\/a> at The Federalist and producer of \u201cThe Federalist Radio Hour.\u201d Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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