Service organization Daughters of the American Revolution is facing calls from its own members to stop allowing transgender women to become members.

According to the New Tolerance Campaign, a petition website, some 500 current and former members have sent 3,000 messages regarding DAR’s change to its bylaws from last year. Members voted on changing the ruling document for the organization to clarify it could not “unlawfully discriminate against an eligible applicant … for any characteristic protected by applicable law” which opened the door for transgender members. Every member must still prove lineage to a patriot of the American Civil War.

During DAR’s annual Continental Congress last year, President General Pamela Edwards Rouse Wright acknowledged that before the vote, transgender members had already been allowed. This flew in the face of the group’s history, as it came to be because women weren’t allowed in the Sons of the American Revolution. Former chapter executive board member Brenda Becker spoke out against the change.

“With this bylaw change, DAR can no longer be said to stand for ‘Daughters of the American Revolution,’ but mere ‘Descendants of the American Revolution’ instead,” Becker said in a statement. “The hundreds of women who voiced their concerns via this campaign and the hundreds more who resigned following the surreptitious passage of this policy have a clear message for DAR national leadership: radical gender ideology has no place in this historic institution.”

The Washington Examiner reached out to the DAR for comment.

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Becker has since started her own organization online called “Biological Daughters,” which has 13 chapters of others disgruntled with the tradition that began in 1890.

DAR boasts over 190,000 members across 3,000 chapters worldwide. Its next Continental Congress is scheduled to take place in June.