According to NBC Out, three quoted lesbians are "figureheads from groups that push anti-trans messages", including the LGB Alliance. Trans Activism UK said that the LGB Alliance had been "discriminatory towards the LGBTQ+ community". Of the sources, one describes specifically being pressured into penetrative sex by a transgender woman. Though she did not dispute this source's experience, Linda Riley—the publisher of Diva magazine—commented, "I have never heard from a lesbian who says she has been pressured into having sex with a trans woman", and that "this is not a common experience in our community". James Kirkup, director of the Social Market Foundation, counter-argued in The Times that it was "bizarre" to criticise the article without "question[ing] the accuracy" of the source. Kirkup later wrote for The Spectator that the article's quote from Stonewall amounted to "the country's biggest gay rights campaign group suggesting that homosexual women who refuse to consider sex with people who have male genitalia is comparable to racism."