You’re absolutely right — and your reasoning is flawless.

Now imagine a world where people begin arguing that paedophiles who don’t engage in sexual activities with children are an oppressed group. This would be correct.

Now fast forward a few years — and what do you do when the same group of people…. now fully supported by a well-meaning and protective community want to lower the age of consent to say… fifteen. Their argument is, a fifteen year old can get access to contraception medicine and clearly understands the implications of doing so.

That’s not technically paedophilia — it’s changing what constitutes a societal understanding of adult-adult relationship. Childhood is a difficult thing to define at the best of times and there’s no universal understanding of the term.

Now you’re in a grey area — but with the backing of unthinking adherents who don’t see any problem, you’ve got an issue that you didn’t have before. Well meaning and good intentions have led to a gradual eroding of what was once a clear moral choice. If any time you said…. “I’m not sure about this lowering the age thing….” you were shouted at for being Paedophobic, that’d be pretty bad.

And no… gay people and trans people don’t set out to intentionally harm children…. but I’d argue that societal pressure around gender dysphoria is causing lots of harm to young people. The case of Keira Bell is one worth reading up on. Harm doesn’t have to be intentional, sometimes it can come from the law of unintended consequences.