Peters had not yet transitioned and later regarded this piece as dishonest, more interested in hunting for acceptance from her audience rather than seeking out truths.

[9] After initial interest in expanding this essay into a book dwindled because an agency thought it wouldn't connect with a "mainstream" audience, Peters stopped writing for some time.

She was inspired to join after reading their influential novel Nevada by Imogen Binnie, and meeting Tom Léger, Topside's editor.

[9][12] Peters wanted to promote a wider trans literary scene by encouraging writers to self-publish novellas using shared classes and resources.

She shared them widely for free download from her website and online trans communities, or for variable prices in small-run print editions.

[15] Peters’s first two self-published novellas, The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, were published online in 2016 and reviewed by writer Harron Walker for them.

As Detransition, Baby grew to novel-length, Peters temporarily published a single chapter from it as the standalone novella Glamour Boutique.

[9] The novella's main character, Chris, is a sissy who is choosing between living out her forced feminization fantasies or undertaking the transition process.

[16] Set in a dystopian future where bioterrorism has destroyed the body's ability to produce sex hormones, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones follows Patient Zero and her cat-and-mouse relationship with Lexi, a working-class, gun-obsessed trans girl.

[18] Peters' debut novel, Detransition, Baby, published by Penguin Random House Profile Books in 2021, was met with critical success and praise for crafting an exploration of gender, parenthood, and love.

[27] Authors including Melinda Salisbury, Joanne Harris, and Naoise Dolan—another nominee for the 2021 prize—condemned the letter and expressed their support for Peters.

Minor interviewed the bar's patrons during the same year Uganda debated the proposed 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which would increase punishments against gay and trans individuals.

The assassination of David Kato started a significant period of fear for their friends and the larger queer community in Uganda.