A coalition was formed, many years ago now, by two separate countries – the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Fascism had infected both, riling up the public and turning them against each other. Disrupting the civility and sowing the seeds of hatred and violence. Hate crimes were on the rise, even those committed by kids – killing each other over twisted misinformation that politicians and influential celebrities spread, swallowing every single thing they’re fed without bothering to do their own research. Parents were burying their children, hounded by trolls – online and off – calling for their heads too, laughing at the deaths, the destruction of young lives.
They were Global Freedom Alliance. Sworn to “protect democracy” and “free the world from the clutches of the Radical Left”.
We were the first targets.
The trannies, the groomers, the ones coming for your children and mutilating them.
It’s amazing how using emotive language can twist people’s reception. In just a couple of years, the general population of both countries turned on us. Suddenly, we were a danger, we were rapists, pedophiles, forcing children to mutilate themselves to indoctrinate them into our Gender Cult. Constant rants online about us cutting off young girls’ breasts – an interesting thing for them to obsess over, which nobody seemed to care about – and forcing hormones down their throats.
Anyone with a modicum of critical thinking abilities could see this for what it was:
Complete. Utter. Bullshit.
But that didn’t stop everyone from eating it up. Hate crimes got even worse. Sentences got shorter. They tore the entire community apart. Suddenly you had queer people saying “LGB without the T”, our own family turning on us.
That’s how it started. It didn’t take long to escalate. Laws were passed. Medications were banned – unless cis people were using them, of course. People tried to flee, only to be arrested at the borders for carrying illegal substances. Life saving care was defunded, medical research and history hidden away or destroyed. Soon enough, people were dragged out of their homes. Families who tried to protect us, dragged down too. Parents who gave up their trans children were lorded as heroes. The hatred in their hearts ate away at their humanity, their empathy, destroying everything it touched.
History repeated itself, but nobody cared. Not when the laws were passed. Not when healthcare was banned. Not when families were torn apart.
And not when the camps were built.
Those who were so proud of their countries efforts to tear down the camps a century ago were more than happy to participate in their creation now. The GFA didn’t even bother trying to hide what they were, using the exact same rhetoric. Labour Camps where we can safely contribute to society without the chance to abuse and corrupt the innocent. What they did hide, however, is what happened with the children.
Families would be brought in sometimes. The parents would be thrown in, the children taken away for “assessment”. Sometimes they came back, sometimes they went somewhere else. Somewhere worse. Given to the elite – the rich, the politicians – as toys to use how they please.
Every accusation is a confession, when it comes to them. They don’t care about protecting children, they just want us dead. Getting access to young girls and boys is a nice bonus for them.
Sometimes, when the “supplies run dry”, they’ll take the malnourished kids from the camps. I’ve seen parents smother their children in their sleep, freeing them from the suffering of the camps and the potential hell of being sent away.
It went on like this for nearly 2 years, when a change happened. Suddenly, gay men and women were being brought to the camps, a good portion of them demanding to be freed since they aren’t “one of them”. They helped capture us, torture us, take our lives from us, why would the GFA do this to them too?
We tried to warn them.
They never listened.
An attack on one of us will always turn into an attack on us all. You’re only “one of the good ones” until you aren’t needed anymore – then you’re just another pedo-fag who’s coming for their kids. All their talks, demanding for our heads, selling us out, sharing lies and faked statistics, giving twisted recounts of what certain surgeries entail, of how we force these surgeries on babies sometimes (while, in fact, it is cis people who do this to intersex children). None of it mattered in the end. Once the convenience of them had run its course, the rhetoric shifted to include them. Suddenly they were the groomers, the pedophiles, the corruptors. They remembered how this had happened to them before, and yet they still did it to us.
We’re all the same to them. Given the chance, they’ll take us all out. Destroy us, our histories, our families. They’ve been doing it for centuries, why stop now?
We’ll always be the freaks. The degenerates. The dangers to society.
I just want to live my life.
I don’t want to hurt anyone.
Why is it so hard just to exist? Why are we not allowed to be proud of ourselves? Why do we need to hide, to be ashamed? Why is it always our fault? Why is it so hard to just leave us the fuck alone? You bitch and complain about how we force it down your throats, when it’s not even us most of the time doing it. And what about us having cis/het representation and acceptance constantly being shown? We just want to be treated equally, why is that so hard? Why do we keep needing to fight? Where is the empathy? Where is the humanity?
Then again…
Humanity is cruel. Humanity is murderous. We are the worst of the worst.
But we can also be the best. I wish I had hope. I wish I could see a better future ahead of us. But I don’t.
And it fucking terrifies me.
Valkyrie Yeong 