How the DAR Rewrites Its Own Rules Who Counts as a Daughter? Bloodline, Belonging, and the Limits of Reform in the Daughters of the American Revolution · Part 3 · First published 13 October 2026 Updated 22 October 2026 When people outside the DAR hear that its members voted on who counts as a woman, a fair first question is: who gets to change the rules of a 136-year-old society, and how? The answer says a lot about what happened in June 2026. The machinery The DAR governs it

What Happened on June 26 Who Counts as a Daughter? Bloodline, Belonging, and the Limits of Reform in the Daughters of the American Revolution · Part 2 · First published 12 October 2026 Updated 22 October 2026 On Friday, June 26, 2026, voting delegates to the DAR's 135th Continental Congress spent nearly 12 hours in Constitution Hall, the Society's auditorium, on a single resolution. It asked them to declare that "woman" in the bylaws means a woman shown female on her original

In June 2026, delegates gathered in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., voted on whether the Daughters of the American Revolution should write a definition of "woman" into its bylaws. The resolution was aimed at transgender women, and it was defeated.