If you haven’t made up your mind about Restoration ask yourself this question:
“Am I ok with a man (transwoman) being President General?”
Women-only organizations are seen as empowering environments that encourage women to take risks and learn new skills.
The DAR used to be one of these organizations, promoting itself as a network of women, but has compromised this and opportunities for women without the consent of the members.
Think about how you might feel one day when you are replaced at a ceremony or on an officer slate by a man identifying as a woman.
Is that fair to you, your daughter, your granddaughter or your niece? How about your mother, grandmother or aunt?
This is the logical outcome of allowing men that identify as women to be members of the DAR.
Maybe there will never be one of these individuals in your chapter.
But it is happening – there are several chapters across the country that have knowingly admitted males.
Have you considered the ramifications of this?
Men have paged at Continental Congress in white dresses and have participated in ceremonies held at Continental Congress by carrying their state flags.
Men are currently chapter regents and vice regents.
These are opportunities that were taken away from women.
These men who identify as women aspire to higher office within the DAR.
Someday one of these men will sit on a State or National Committee, Chair a State or National Committee, become State Regent, a State Officer, National Officer and ultimately hold the office of President General, taking the position away from a woman.
In fact, a current member of the DAR that is a man who identifies as a woman has openly called for a picture of himself, flanked by women, to be the “modern day version” of the iconic photo **“The Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution” currently on display at the Smithsonian (pictured below).
This is just the beginning.
We have no malice for these men. But they’re not women.
Now is the time to “guard that which is committed to our trust.”
Daughters Advocating for Restoration want to see women rise to levels of leadership.
This, coupled with the corruption of our genealogical records is enough to pause and reflect on what has happened within the DAR in recent years.
It is our responsibility and duty as members to restore the DAR as a women’s only organization that provides opportunities to women of all ages and to preserve the historical record.
We must honor our founding mothers and preserve the DAR for future generations.
We need your vote when the time comes to Restore and Preserve the DAR as a women’s only organization!
**The photo pictured was taken on October 15, 1963 and is the iconic photo on display at the Smithsonian museum. It features President General Marion Moncure Duncan and her executive officers.
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