DAR Leadership Accused of Undermining Organization's Female-Only Mission Through Procedural Maneuvers
Source: Jordan Boyd. "DAR President Squashes Another Attempt To Keep Org Female." August 7, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
The author argues that the president of the Daughters of the American Revolution is unfairly blocking members who want to formally restrict membership to biological women, using procedural excuses while her own personal support for trans inclusion suggests bias. The article frames this as leadership betraying the organization's historic female-only mission despite member pushback and political attention from lawmakers like Senator Blackburn.
Conclusion
DAR President General Ginnie Sebastian Storage and national leadership are deliberately betraying the organization's female-centric mission by blocking members' democratic efforts to formally define and protect female-only membership.
Premises
- Storage refused chapters' legitimate request for a special session to vote on defining 'woman,' despite significant member support for such a vote.
- The original vote on female-only membership was procedurally compromised: it bypassed the required special meeting process and full membership notification, and voters received a one-sided legal memo suggesting the DAR lacked First Amendment rights to restrict membership by sex.
- Storage has personal ties to pro-trans inclusivity advocacy, including membership in a Facebook group that worked to defeat the female-only resolution and public support for trans-identifying members.
- DAR leadership has a history of shutting down discourse on this issue, including telling a chapter that female-only membership language was not 'suitable' for the bylaws and asserting that a 'transgender woman is not a man.'
- The backlash extends beyond internal DAR members to political figures like Senator Marsha Blackburn, who introduced legislation to prohibit male DAR membership, indicating broader recognition of the problem.
Assumptions
- The DAR's original mission and identity as a female-only organization should take precedence over inclusivity for transgender-identifying members.
- Procedural decisions by leadership (declining special sessions, how notice was given) reflect intentional bias rather than legitimate governance judgment calls.
- A person's expressed personal views or group memberships (like supporting trans inclusivity) necessarily compromise their ability to make fair procedural/administrative decisions in a leadership role.
- The original Continental Congress vote result (defeating the female-only resolution) does not represent the authentic will of the broader membership due to alleged procedural irregularities.
- Political intervention (Blackburn's legislation) is treated as validating evidence rather than a separate political development with its own motivations.