The interim director of the Smithsonian’s new American Women’s History Museum said in an interview published on Monday that “transgender women” – individuals who identify as women despite being born male – will be included in the museum’s exhibits.

According to The New York Times, she said that her decision is based on the museum’s commitment to inclusivity, which is central to its tribute to American women.

“We have a job to build a museum that’s going to serve the public for a very, very long time,” Sasaki said. “From the DNA of this museum, there has been a desire to be inclusive.”

According to Sasaki, the actual DNA of Americans is not relevant to the new museum’s exhibits. Instead, individuals who identify as women and have made a historic contribution to American society, as determined by the museum’s curators, will be included in the exhibits.

Although the museum has not yet received congressional approval, it has raised a substantial amount of money from various donors, including Melinda Gates, the ex-wife of Bill Gates, The Alice Walton Foundation, and other wealthy philanthropists, totaling $55 million.

The group has already launched several online features, which include individuals such as Sylvia Rivera, who co-founded the militant group and youth shelter, STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). However, a search for Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative icon and actual woman, produced no results, the Daily Wire reported.

Regarding Sasaki, she has prior experience in the Smithsonian field.

As the executive director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Sasaki oversaw the launch of the digital exhibition “A Day in the Queer Life of Asian Pacific America,” which included the following ‘enlightening’ presentations:

• Queer Elders: a series of four video shorts of queer elders in San Francisco, Los Angeles and sites in the South and Midwest U.S., curated by archivist, photographer and filmmaker Mia Nakano
• Queer Check-ins: a series of 12 video poem “check ins” by queer diasporic poets throughout the U.S. and beyond, curated by poet Franny Choi
• Queer Youth: crowd-sourced photography and short video by queer youth
• Queer Motion: crowd-sourced boomerangs exploring queer survival, heartbreak and joy set to motion
• Queer Time: a long-form essay on queer experience of time by poet Rajiv Mohabir

The date and location of the museum’s official opening are yet to be determined. However, it is possible that the museum may lose space on the National Mall to the new American Latino Museum, as per The Times.