{"id":3298,"date":"2026-06-30T04:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:13:08","slug":"the-daughters-of-the-american-revolution-are-in-revolt-because-trans-zealots-cant-leave-anything-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"The Daughters of the American Revolution are in revolt \u2014 because trans zealots can’t leave ANYTHING alone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week the Daughters of the American Revolution marked America\u2019s 250th anniversary not by honoring the nation\u2019s Founders, but by miring itself in an unnecessary woke battle that threatens the organization\u2019s very future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Delegates at the DAR\u2019s 135th Continental Congress in Washington, DC, this past weekend defeated a member-driven attempt to limit membership to those \u201cborn female\u201d \u2014 that is, to actual daughters.<\/p>\n

The vote means the group\u2019s leaders will get their way: They can now open membership to anyone who considers<\/em> themselves to be female.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The members\u2019 resolution failed by a vote of 1,481 to 984 after a bitter procedural fight that many attendees say was engineered to produce exactly that outcome.<\/p>\n

The Daughters, as they\u2019re known, are women who can document direct descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a women-only service organization that has offered leadership and educational opportunities to women since 1890.<\/p>\n

For a century-plus, the DAR\u2019s very name has described both who its members are and why they belong.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to imagine a more straightforward membership standard than one rooted in genealogy and biological reality.<\/p>\n

Yet all that has now been thrown into question over what members estimate is a grand total of between two and five transgender members \u2014 out of 190,000 \u2014 who call themselves \u201cTransdaughters.\u201d<\/p>\n

The voting process itself only deepened the divide.<\/p>\n

The congress\u2019 initial vote was scotched before it was counted, when opponents of the measure claimed to have seen evidence of cheating.<\/p>\n

That launched a lengthy and convoluted second vote that required thousands of women to cast ballots one at a time \u2014 in a process that stretched for roughly 12 hours.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Consumed by this single issue, convention organizers canceled luncheon events, disrupted award ceremonies and pulled the plug on service projects honoring troops and veterans.<\/p>\n

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Intentionally or not, the process inevitably suppressed participation \u2014 and left many wondering whether exhaustion was part of the leadership\u2019s strategy.<\/p>\n

Erin, a California delegate who traveled across the country expecting a joyous celebration of America\u2019s semiquincentennial, believes the vote threatens the continuity of an organization she cares about deeply.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really feel like going to anything the rest of the week,\u201d she told me. \u201cI was depressed. I was tapped out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strife had an immediate impact on her monetary support for DAR.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like many longtime members, Erin had planned to spend big on special DAR insignia and keepsakes celebrating the nation\u2019s 250th birthday during the event \u2014 but she walked away empty-handed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t buy any merch this year, nothing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not giving to them outside of my required dues. I am not giving them a penny.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says that sentiment has spread among many members who opposed the vote.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll keep paying the minimum required to preserve their membership, but the voluntary spending, donations and enthusiasm that sustain organizations like the DAR are beginning to disappear.<\/p>\n

That may ultimately be the vote\u2019s real legacy.<\/p>\n

Again and again, American institutions have discovered that appeasing ideological activists while ignoring the wishes of their core constituency is a losing strategy.<\/p>\n

The customers leave, donors disappear, volunteers stop volunteering.<\/p>\n

The institution slowly hollows itself out from within.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet again and again, left-leaning leaders fall for the same trap.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a bitter irony in how an organization created to honor the sacrifices of America\u2019s founders chose, on the eve of the nation\u2019s 250th birthday, to jeopardize its own future over the wish to accommodate at most five people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The biblical story of King Solomon reveals a timeless truth: The person willing to divide the child is rarely the one who truly loves the child.<\/p>\n

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The women fighting to preserve the DAR as a female organization aren\u2019t the ones demanding that the institution change its identity.<\/p>\n

No, those willing to fracture it over the demands of two to five wannabe members are demonstrating a reckless willingness to gamble the viability of an institution that has survived for 135 years.<\/p>\n

King Solomon knew how to identify the true mother \u2014 the one who could not bear to see the child divided was the one who loved it most.<\/p>\n

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The Daughters have a thing or two to learn from the mother in that ancient tale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bethany Mandel writes and podcasts at The Mom Wars.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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