Kiefer had estranged parents, who could tell the difference between fiction and reality. They themselves were middle-aged when he was born, and filled with the not yet known Alzheimer's dementia by the time he turned 30.
A few years later, as he got married to someone who genuinely makes him look like a saint in comparison, he lost them to that condition and never looked back. He also was desperate to earn money at such a difficult time of his life and became a baby factory for her at the cost of his mental health.
He is a closet bigender, but his wife, Willabelle Hoover, is a straight office terrorist who treats him like utter fucking trash, which is why he has become a heavy. He knew he had to render his public bigender identity nonexistent, mainly for reasons related to the dangers faced by fellow bigendered humans of his time.
Not to mention that she herself is someone that even other extremists fear. She has ensured that other human beings, regardless of sex and gender, will have their lives gone if not for a couple of progressive speakeasies, which surely explains why he has become an anti-villain with neutral publicity in order to attract her jackass views.
It is thought that Diderik Gold was such a bad friend of his that he dumped him after a brief time of friendship, which is also why he's in a crap state. Akim just doesn't care about the actual shit behind it, as he hasn't seen queers before and barely knows about the general situation surrounding them.