DAR Disbands Texas Chapter in 2-3 Vote as Transgender Membership Fight Deepens

Q: What specific external advocacy group did the disbanded DAR chapter allegedly support using official resources?

The external advocacy group was **Daughters Advocating for Restoration**. The news story itself does not name the group, but the additional material points to Daughters Advocating for Restoration as the organized campaign behind efforts to pressure DAR to revisit its transgender membership policy. That material includes chapter-facing guidance on becoming a “Resolute chapter,” pushing resolutions, and using DAR procedures to call a special meeting. DAR said the Martha Laird Chapter was dissolved not because of its views on transgender membership, but because chapter officers allegedly used the chapter’s official name, leadership authority, communications, and governance processes to advance the goals of that separate advocacy organization.

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A two-thirds DAR board vote on Oct. 10 dissolved the Martha Laird Chapter in Texas, with members shifted to at-large status and given until Nov. 9 to join another chapter.
DAR said the chapter was disbanded for violating Article XIX, Section 4 by using its name, leadership and governance processes to advance a separate advocacy organization, not for its views on membership eligibility.
The Texas chapter had led efforts to bar transgender women from joining, backing a 2024 bylaw amendment based on biological sex that national leadership rejected in February 2025 and members rejected again in June 2026.
The move lands amid a wider political push: Rep. Ben Cline and Sen. Marsha Blackburn have introduced legislation to limit DAR membership to biological women.