This article includes some big lies and false claims. I've spent a few days digging deep on this story. Here's what I've seen, as brief as I can make it:

Kiwi Farms is a mean Internet gossip forum. It's not a place where people plan SWATing or offline harassment. Even the suggestion is banned by site policy. This rule is strictly enforced by Josh Moon, the site's owner. If groups of users coordinate such actions offline, it's not under Josh's control, just as harassment planned parallel to Facebook isn't under the control of Mark Zuckerberg. Kiwi Farms is a forum where users make threads to document and follow funny ("lulzy") Internet figures. If you aren't a weird Internet person, they won't make a thread for you. It allows the sort of uncensored slurs and speech you might find today on 4chan, or Twitter of ten years ago.

Users post public info about subjects on these threads, mainly stuff the subject posts themselves first on social media. They use Google and sites like White Pages to find all they can about a subject's Internet history ("doxing"). It is posted for entertainment; use of this info to harass is strictly prohibited. People like Keffals do the same thing on websites like Twitter. The main difference I see is that on Kiwi Farms, users can also type slurs and mean words. It's true that cataloging someone's seriously bad behavior (I will return to this shortly) makes it harder for that person to find employment. In effect Kiwi Farms is "cancel culture" for people who don't typically find themselves targets of cancel culture.

Keffals, the other subject of the article, is a male-to-female transgender Twitch streamer. Her audience is largely teenagers. She herself is pretty big into doxing and harassment. She's encouraged doxing on Twitter and recently posted a full-face photo of Josh Moon's mom, calling for her to be fired for her son's ownership of Kiwi Farms:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220810180051/https://twitter.c...

https://archive.ph/15nHu

Keffals claims that previously, Josh's mom lost her job for making hateful posts on Kiwi Farms. This is false; Josh's mom has never used the site. In fact, someone harassed her by making a fake account with her full legal name, posting hate speech, then calling and harassing her employer and her employer's clients until she got fired for the business disruption. Josh and his mom have been doxed and SWATed numerous times, including people showing up to Josh's house with weapons, and faced considerably more real-life harassment than Keffals in particular claims to have experienced.

So why did Kiwi Farms users make a thread about Keffals? It's not because Keffals is trans (some Kiwi users are trans, incidentally) but because she harasses other streamers and preys on children. Keffals came to the site's attention after deplatforming other Internet personalities, bragging about it, and daring Kiwi Farms to dig up dirt on her past. Well, they did.

It turns out Keffals runs a "DIY HRT" website (https://diyhrt.wiki) which tells minors how to purchase and self-dose cross-sex hormones. It has a big disclaimer about talking to doctors first, but also has instructions for buying drugs in secret and self-dosing. The site encourages minors to buy these drugs online in secret with cryptocurrency and inject or ingest them behind their parents' backs. The site explicitly sends minors to sketchy online pharmacies like Otonoko, a Bitcoin-only mail order pharmacy that ships hormones packaged with lolita anime box art and labels that say "Hide from Parents" and "Don't look at my giant girldick":

https://archive.ph/zZMRp

Even in medical settings, medical youth transition is controversial. The UK and Sweden just curtailed this practice when doctors found significant risks to patients' health and no clear evidence of benefit. Without medical or parental supervision, it's a recipe for disaster. Keffals promotes this site to her largely-underage audience on Twitch and Twitter.

The co-owner of Keffals' "DIY HRT" site, who apparently is also Keffals' romantic partner, has claimed credit for mailing hormones to minors directly without parents' knowledge or consent. This is expressly illegal in the US and Canada. What's also illegal is soliciting nude photos from children. Turns out Keffals ran a Discord server called "Catboy Ranch" which recruited underaged users, engaged them in sexual discussions, encouraged them to share selfies, and led some down the path of underage gender transition (Ctrl+F "catboy"):

https://archive.ph/HY4hK

None of this in the linked article. This is a grave omission that calls the whole piece into question.

To be clear, Kiwi users are mostly terrible people. Josh Moon is a creepy guy. He said and did very gross things in the past, mostly in connection to the "GamerGate" cultural trainwreck of the early 2010s. That said, the site appears to operate well within the law. People the site's users go after tend to be just as gross in one way or another. The site isn't a "national security threat" or anything so overblown as the link author claims. It's a bunch of gross Internet people documenting and gossiping about other gross, usually slightly-worse Internet people.

There's more to this story (Keffals lying about aspects of the Canada police raid, police chief publicly refuting these claims, Keffals raising $100,000+ to sue the police (?), niche porn Keffals starred in and sold she's now calling "revenge porn", suspect circumstances of the MTG SWATing and supposed claim of responsibility), but I sense I'm stretching the limits of people's attention. I've spent the last week reading up on this so you don't have to, but if you feel like wading through the muck, the last archive link goes to a copy of Keffal's thread on Kiwi Farms.