Remember how I shared just a few months ago that Caroline and I had gone through the process to prove out our lineage and qualify for the Daughters of the American Revolution? We completed the process and became charter members of our chapter.

About a month later, I was looking something up online and discovered the DAR had made the decision in recent years to allow men to join.

I cannot fully express to you how sick I felt when I read that.

It NEVER crossed my mind when we were looking into the DAR that the organization would have caved on this issue. It’s a women’s group that makes you jump through a LOT of hoops to prove that you qualify. I know some of you probably think all I do is read current events all day, but I don’t. I had not come across this when I was looking up information on DAR. And, as I said, it never crossed my mind that this would be the case. Naive, I know, given how the National Panhellenic Conference sororities caved on similar things.

Anyway, I felt completely deflated after I discovered this. If the leadership cannot be truthful about basic biology and protecting women, then how do I trust them with other things?

So after thinking I had found something to enjoy in the coming years, I realized that this would’t be the case. I can deal with the not discussing politics and religion aspect of DAR in order to maintain a focus on the mission. But I can’t deal with denying basic Truth.

I don’t regret the time or money invested in going through the process. This is something I had always wanted to research and prove out so I’m glad I did it. I’m thinking that instead of spending money on a yearly DAR membership, I can spend it on membership to a genealogy website and continue doing my own research.

But, yes. Sigh.

I’m done joining groups. I’d rather just read a book by the fire.

If you want to read about the DAR admitting men (transgenders), here are two links. The information is at the very end of the Wikipedia article.

• Daughters of the American Revolution on Wikipedia
• Historic US women’s group provokes anger by allowing trans members from The Times