In a classic case of organizational leadership ignoring the interests of its membership for political reasons, leaders of the Daughters of the American Revolution are attempting to quash an attempt by their members to ensure biological males cannot join the organization.

According to a report from Daily Wire personality Michael Knowles, DAR leaders have circulated a document claiming that allowing biological males who identify as women to join the organization was a process that happened “organically,” so long as they had changed their birth certificates to say that they were women.