So for me, it was a gradual build up. Even back when I was drinking the trans kool-aid, there was a part of me in the back of my head that felt something was off with the ideology was off, especially as a gay man who had no interest in trans-identified women/females no matter how much they "passed". But I kept it to myself because you know, that's what "they" say you have to do, don't question the ideology and just go with it if you don't want to be a hateful bigot. But then I stumbled across a Magdalen Berns video in early 2016, the one she made on that Alok guy about Nonbinary bullshit and the thing is that even though I was a TRA back in that time, I NEVER believed or bought into Nonbinary. To me that was ridiculous the notion of "not being a man or a woman", it was absolutely stupid to me, especially when the people calling themselves that just looked like butch women and effeminate presenting men. Of course later I would learn that these people were just victims of thinking gender roles/stereotypes define sex and that they believed that since they didn't have interest in conforming, that made them neither sex. So naturalyl I agreed and applauded that video Magdalen did but then I came across her video "There's no such thing as a lesbian with a penis" and I remember being very nervous to watch it because she was comitting the cardinal sin (lol) that TRAs push onto people of people not playing along with their ideology and calling it out because it's just "transphobic".

Needless to say, I watched it and felt very conflicted because on the one hand I did think the guy was being ridiculous calling himself a lesbian even though the other part of me was saying "Don't go there, you're being transphobic. But I was intrigued by Magdalen, she was the first person I had come across saying this kind of stuff and I had to hear more and long story short, the video that cracked me was her "why do you hate Transwomen" video along with that consutant teaching men how to be more feminine. Now while I was bordering the peaking thanks to Magdalen, what made me peak fully was watching more gender critical videos, namely the ones from Mancheeze the Great as well as discovering Gender Critical and ThisNeverHappens subreddit before they got taken down. Also learning about John Money, the creep/groomer who was responsible for gender ideology to begin with.

I was appalled and disgusted at the misogyny hurled at women fro ma lot of the TIMs as well as when I saw how some were trying to push feminine gay men and masculine lesbians transition, they even tried to get at me saying I was "trans in denial" because of how I choose to present myself and my admitted, frustrated venting of my difficult dating life in the gay world.

The thing that made me become outspoken about my stance against trans ideology was the Maya Forstarter case and JK Rowling in 2019 who came out in support of her. The amount of hate and lies being spread about them in my own social circles annoyed me so much that I couldn't take it anymore and came out in support of them and I finally came out saying what I truly felt about trans ideology.

So yeah, technically I peaked in mid-late 2016 but kept quiet about my views until 2019 lol.