Daughters of American Revolution Remains Open to Males
The ‘Daughters of the American Revolution’ will continue to allow men to join, despite objections from a significant number of members.
The Daughters of the American Revolution will continue to allow gender-confused men to join, following a recent vote.
Over the weekend, the Congress voted 1,481 to 984 against a resolution that would affirm the “daughters” of the American Revolution did not include so-called “transdaughters,” according to the New York Post. The organization was founded in 1890, the year after the “Sons of the American Revolution.”
Critics have raised concerns about the vote, which required every member to vote one at a time and effectively canceled the positive festivities that were supposed to be the focus of the annual gathering.
Bethany Mandel reported for the NY Post:
The congress’ initial vote was scotched before it was counted, when opponents of the measure claimed to have seen evidence of cheating.
That launched a lengthy and convoluted second vote that required thousands of women to cast ballots one at a time — in a process that stretched for roughly 12 hours. Delegates, many of them elderly, were effectively confined to the convention hall with only two bathroom breaks and no food service if they wanted their votes to count.
Mandel reports that at most, five men want to join the 19,000-member organization. Yet the vote has upset members who pay dues and buy merchandise, both of which keep it running.
Others allege that leadership has told members to stop advocating against the inclusion of gender-confused men.
“Ginnie Sebastian Storage, Daughters of the American Revolution President General — and a strong supporter of transing DAR — sent a note to members telling them that the vote against transing DAR failed, and everybody needs to accept it and move on.,” Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway wrote on X. “Many chapters are enraged.”
Ginnie Sebastian Storage, Daughters of the American Revolution President General — and a strong supporter of transing DAR — sent a note to members telling them that the vote against transing DAR failed, and everybody needs to accept it and move on. Many chapters are enraged.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 29, 2026
Hemingway said the organization’s leadership “quietly changed the bylaws to say that men could join Daughters of the American Revolution.”
In her comments to Fox News, she highlighted the irony of a group that is based on biological and historical fact allowing men to join just because they change their birth certificate.
Hemingway also said that leadership made questionable claims that the organization had to allow men in or face legal repercussions.
Texas DAR members are forwarding a nastygram from their regent Susan Johnston, a strong supporter of transing DAR. She is chastizing women who don’t support the transing of the heritage organization and threatening members who speak out against her efforts.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 30, 2026
The legal opinion was written by left-wing activist Professor Samuel Bagenstos, who worked for Eric Holder at DOJ and clerked for the notoriously radical Stephen Reinhardt. He has previously done legal work advocating for radical trans ideology.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) June 30, 2026
[Featured image via screenshot of DAR YouTube video]
Matt Lamb currently works as an associate editor for The College Fix. He also contributes to a variety of websites, including Legal Insurrection, Human Life Review, and AMAC Newsline. His work has been published by The Federalist, Townhall, and The Daily Caller. He has worked for Students for Life of America and Turning Point USA.
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This is infuriating enough to cause member dentures to fall out.
So far, no men have expressed any interest in sharing their locker rooms.
I think the Daughters of the Revolution should spit up and have a real civil war
My wife belongs to the DAR, she’s done with them.
I told her to start a new club that honors those who fought in the revolution.
Why? Men join SAR, FFS.
My wife receives a genuine, imitation silk scarf from them once a year. We always hand it to a stoplight beggar in lieu of cash.
They’re the two if by sea.
Don’t care – the decision is up to they/them.
Well, since they’re a private organization and not government they can make their own rules.
In many cases private organizations cannot freely “make their own rules” because of Federal, state or local anti-discrimination laws or codes.
Unfortunately, a lot of what Hemingway said is inaccurate. Mandel also has NO idea of what she is talking about. The is absolutely no way she, or anyone else, knows how many trans are trying to gain membership.
Some research on the admission standards and the history of this issue within the DAR would have better served them and their audience.
I could join DAR, but I’d been holding off to see how all this played out. Now it’s a hard pass.
Same here. I have several ancestors who proudly served in the Revolution. My paperwork is all ready to go. Now, I will just sit back, happy in the knowledge that my ancestors did their bit to free us from Great Britain.
Sorry to hear you feel that way. Local DAR Chapters do great work in their community.
Yet they wonder why they are irrelevant.
I’ve heard DAR has been following this leftist trajectory for some time. It started back in the 70s when they felt that in order to remain “relevant” to changing culture, many chapters embraced feminism, with the vibe of east coast women college teaching gender studies.
That explains the outrage and the call for a movement to oust the leaders that I have seen on several websites.