by Mary-Grace Byers, Daily Signal:
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A regulatory agency established during the Great Depression to help farmers financially recover from the Dust Bowl is now pushing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility standards and promoting transgender farming.
The Farm Credit Administration, an independent agency that oversees the Farm Credit System to provide credit to farmers and ranchers, issued a newsletter for employees titled “DEIA for All,” which The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
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🚨BIDEN’S FARMING PRIORITIES: “QUEERING THE SYSTEMS OF CAPITALISM”
The Farm Credit Administration @fcagov wants DEIA for all & more transgender farmers 👨🌾 🏳️🌈🧵 pic.twitter.com/Cx6YuQa2Bt
— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) May 1, 2024
The newsletter, released quarterly, challenges employees to examine their “implicit bias” with tests to gain self-awareness and “ensure that diversity and inclusion continues to thrive at FCA.”
It also encourages employees to learn about the experiences of LGBTQ+ people in agriculture and to be proud of the ways FCA contributes to “equity in farming.”
The memo reads, “FCA supports the System’s mission to serve young, beginning, and small (YBS) farmers, ranchers, and producers and harvesters of aquatic products. It’s not unlikely that a portion of LGBTQI+ farmers would be YBS borrowers. They would require constructive credit and financially related services from the System, so it’s nice to think that we can have a hand in the contribution toward their success.”
One of the articles that the Farm Credit Administration links to for further reading, “The Queer Farmers Reimagining American Agriculture,” suggests that LGBTQ farmers can improve American agriculture in ways that their “straight, cis counterparts” cannot.
The article quotes a “queer farmer” named Coco Faria, who talks about “queering the systems of capitalism.”
