Does the DAR Discriminate Against Texas Transwomen?

Some states will amend the sex-marker on a birth certificate and some will not.

At the 2025 District VI Workshop, the Texas State Regent told members that here in Texas, we don’t have to worry about men trying to join our chapter since the state of Texas doesn’t alter birth certificates in this way. I was not allowed to ask her the follow up question of “what if a transwoman (their moniker) from CA tries to join our chapter?”

CA will alter the sex-marker on birth certificates, so if this CA man decides to move to Texas and wants to join our chapter, according to the former President General, we cannot turn him away based on the fact that he is a man with an amended birth certificate (male to female sex-marker).

Further, why the DAR now discriminating against transwomen who live in Texas and other states that won’t amend the sex-marker on birth certificates?

How is this not discrimination against Texas transwomen?

Is the DAR not inclusive and welcoming of these transwomen?

Is the only thing that makes a transwoman a woman in the eyes of the DAR a state-certified birth certificate that says female?

Are we going to reduce these transwomen’s identity down to a piece of paper?

Perhaps the DAR will accept them without an amended birth certificate?

After all, according to the President General “A transgender woman is not a man; a transgender woman is also not a man simply dressed as a woman. A transgender woman lives and identifies as a woman.”

And

“As an organization, we are committed not only to complying with all applicable laws, but also to being welcoming, inclusive and compassionate.”

What a tangled web they’ve woven.