This was at the beginning of my peak story too. It wasn't my gateway, but it's something I came upon when I was trying to study the reporting on trans issues. Because I was realizing there was a campaign to prevent us from learning what’s really happening, which explained why I could not find answers to basic questions, and I kept seeing a lot of "this isn't happening" messages about things that I had absolutely observed, particularly in lesbian spaces. At that time I stumbled upon a disingenuous article reporting on that situation with Chimamanda. They quoted all of these "gender experts" about why it was transphobic and providing "corrective" information about trans issues and psychology. Every so-called expert was themselves male to female trans, and that wasn't disclosed in the article. They just quoted multiple Professor So-And-Sos from Such-And-Such Universities. And I looked up them up, and each time learned they were male-to-female trans from that. And generally all white heterosexual males. The omission seemed really deceitful. I think it should at least be disclosed in the article that they're trans, considering they are often about it in their professional lives and it's the entire basis for their careers. I found it so interesting that the social hierarchy in liberal politics was white, hetero males who ID as women over black women. Anyway, this may be the point where I started saving a vault of articles related to trans issues so I could understand the nature of the political movement.