Why does everyone who pushes this view use the exact same phrase - "pave the way"?
Not even third wave feminism, the corporate Frankenstein "feminism," "paved the way," the highway was already constructed decades before.
The surgeries. The hormones. The ideology itself.
I think you didn't read it so I'll post again:
Women have been targeted for conditioning since the 1960's. Psychiatrists advised them against leaving their transvestite husbands, even when they were abusive. They often couldn't afford to divorce, anyway.
Third wave "feminism" came out of universities beginning in the 90's - shortly after Women's Studies programs were renamed to "Gender Studies." Gender being a term popularized by sexologists and psychiatrists, not feminists.
The first "gender clinics" opened at universities in the 60's. "Gender identity" was added to the DSM in 1980.
Which means even academic feminism was one of the last major institutions to embrace GI: after the APA, after universities, after the medical establishment - all dominated by men during the time.