I think it is an initial power up "race" condition where the cross-coupled E and F gates are both initially low at power-up, which feeds back to the inputs of E and F, but clearly, both cant be low nor both can be high at the same time, so due to a slight imbalance one wins. If you were using a "logic" simulator, both E and F would initially have a value of "unknown". If you are using a Spice sim, use the .IC statement to set one or the other to an initial state other than the default low, and see what happens.