Slowly but surely, the "this never happens" wall is chipping away. It is definitely surprising that a transmasculine person is involved in this research, and I respect that Mackinnon confronts some of these realities head-on. Still, it was considered TERF demagoguery for years and years, with blogs such as 4thWaveNow, Feminist Current, and Gender Trender extensively documenting phenomena such as stalking of detransitioners. Rowling gets told to eat a bullet for stating many of the same things that have come up in the article. It appears that several university professors in the UK and North America of the old-guard feminist variety have had their livelihoods destroyed for suggesting such things as well.