Victims of pedophilia take years to realise they were subjected to grooming and sexual abuse, and many spend subsequent years processing their trauma.

Yet, without thought, some people insist on using someone else's trauma to justify their homophobia. Grooming is NOT consent.

This is a topic I take to heart as 1) an LGBT ally and 2) someone who actively worked with UNICEF on their campaign against child grooming.

We did a nationwide tour to many different Malaysian schools. The stories we heard from FRHAM and PDRM D11 units broke our hearts.

Not all child sex offenders are pedophiles and vice versa. But if someone is a paedophile, there is a high chance of them being a child sex abuser.

One might argue that pedophilia is a sexual preference, but one cannot argue the dangers of its nature.

Children have not fully grasped what a healthy romantic relationship entails. Paedophiles take advantage of that to groom them into having sexual relationships.

And more often that not, they are family members, close family friends, or people whose work involves children.

How *dare* you conflate the purposeful exploitation of children's innocent naivety with a consensual homosexual relationship.

I don't care how anti-LGBT you are, but *never* put pedophilia and homosexuality on the same level. They are not and never will be.