A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter (DAR) has decided to fight back against its national organization’s decision to allow trans-identifying males into the historic female group.
In a letter from the Martha Laird Chapter — with help from the Center for American Liberty (CAL) — it has pushed back against a threat from its leadership that by prohibiting transgender males, the DAR would somehow lose its tax-exempt status, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-daughters-american-revolution-chapter-challenges-premise-must-admit-transgender-members">Fox News</a> reported.
The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-exposes-transgender-attempt-to-infiltrate-daughters-of-american-revolution">previously revealed</a> &#8212; in a viral thread on <a href="https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1838267625962405922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> &#8212; how a group of daughters were &#8220;channeling their rebellious spirit of their forebears&#8221; by fighting back “this time building a larger, grassroots effort to affirm the original intent of the bylaws and prevent men from continuing to invade their genealogical society.”
Knowles shared details of an internal DAR FAQ document which said that “members are expected to pretend that ‘transgender women’ have always been eligible and that their inclusion took place ‘organically,’ as if implicit in bylaws written before ‘transgenderism’ was even thought to exist.”
“Members have been told that in order to keep our nonprofit status we must allow men who submit an altered birth certificate indicating they are female to be eligible members,” a letter on the DAR <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1659132851538607/permalink/1776056659846225/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;_rdr">Facebook</a> page read.
“Our hope is that once members and the NBOM [National Board of Management] can feel confident that our nonprofit status is not in jeopardy, they will no longer feel intimidated and vote to allow this bylaw amendment to be heard at Continental Congress,” it added.
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“The Martha Laird Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution has engaged the Center for American Liberty to evaluate (1) whether the National Society (DAR) has a First Amendment right to change membership requirements to exclude trans-identifying men from eligibility, and (2) whether such a change would impact the DAR’s tax-exempt status,” the letter posted on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1659132851538607/permalink/1776056659846225/?mibextid=wwXIfr&amp;_rdr">Facebook</a> read.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
BREAKING: 🚨 We&#8217;re proud to support Texas&#8217; Martha Laird Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to preserve women-only membership by banning men—including trans-identifying men.
Will the DAR preserve its promise to women? Stay tuned! <a href="https://t.co/wH0g8iGc9B">https://t.co/wH0g8iGc9B</a>
— Center for American Liberty (@Liberty_Ctr) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liberty_Ctr/status/1879950152783561180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
The answer to question 1., it found was &#8220;Yes,&#8221; and to question 2., it decided was &#8220;No.&#8221; The letter concluded, “If the DAR changes its bylaws to exclude trans-identifying men from membership eligibility, it is possible that a state or local government could bring an enforcement action against the DAR under a public accommodations law, but the DAR would have a strong First Amendment defense to such an action if it determined that admitting trans-identifying men interferes with its expressive message and articulated reasons why this is the case.”
“Moreover, it is unlikely that the IRS or the District of Columbia would revoke the DAR’s non-profit status over such a bylaw change given the facts that there is likely no public policy opposing exclusion of transgender-identifying men from female-only private genealogical organizations and that any such attempted revocation would likely violate the DAR’s associational rights,” the letter added.
The Martha Laird Chapter — with the endorsement of eleven other Chapters — in September 2024 submitted a second proposed bylaw amendment to prohibit all men, including trans-identifying males, from the group, after a prior one was rejected on the basis that it would put their nonprofit status in jeopardy, the letter noted.
The new proposed bylaw amendment says, “A woman is defined as a biological female at conception, having naturally occurring X chromosomes, exclusive of Y chromosomes, and certified as female or girl on the original birth certificate. NSDAR and its chapters may not discriminate against an eligible applicant.&#8221;
On February 8, the DAR NBOM now must consider this amendment and if approved it will go up for a vote by the entire DAR membership at the Continental Congress this summer, the outlet noted.
&#8220;We will continue doing this every year until we at least get a vote at the Continental Congress,&#8221; Laura McDonald, member of the Martha Laird DAR Chapter, said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the only fair and transparent way to handle this.&#8221;
&#8220;Everybody is realizing that this trans ideology, this agenda to have men infiltrate women&#8217;s spaces, is starting to not be popular anymore, and it&#8217;s not as accepted,&#8221; she added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-exposes-transgender-attempt-to-infiltrate-daughters-of-american-revolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles Exposes Transgender Attempt To Infiltrate Daughters Of American Revolution</a>

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