The BBC argued that the report incorporated a range of views, including some from trans women. However, a member of Trans Activism UK commented that the article omitted quotes from cisgender lesbians who had relationships with transgender women. PinkNews' Lily Wakefield said it "does not contain a single interview with someone who disagrees that trans women are coercing lesbians into sex". The BBC was questioned by MPs about whether proper journalistic processes had been performed prior to the publication of the article and why no interviews with trans people were included. In the article, Lowbridge wrote that she had "contacted several... high-profile trans women who have either written or spoken about sex and relationships", but said that "none of them wanted to speak to me." However, Chelsea Poe, a transgender pornographic actor and a former colleague of Cade, said that she had been interviewed for the article but that her quotes were not included in the article. Poe told PinkNews that she was interviewed by Lowbridge in September 2020, who told her the article's topic was the "cotton ceiling", and that she felt "truly gross" after the "extremely baiting" behaviour by Lowbridge, who repeatedly asked her about "going on dates with people not into trans women". The BBC later confirmed to PinkNews that Poe had been interviewed for the piece but that her statements had been deemed not relevant to the article. On 31 May 2022, the BBC stated that whether a particular trans person is "high profile" is "a matter of judgement, in which there may be a subjective element" and justified the wording used in the article by saying that it was not "a serious inaccuracy" to describe Poe as not being high profile.