Rule of 7

Patriarchy is manipulating the whole idea of feminism and empowerment, to keep afab children available for older sexual predators to sexually exploit. This is becoming an acceptable form of sexual exploitation. 

Afab children are, under patriarchal beliefs, ascribed agency and maturity that does not exist. Anyone who mentions this, though, risks being told they are moralizing or infantilizing other women. That is a misuse of words, a patriarchal adulteration of feminism, to give sexual predators more access to children. 

We don't let children say that they have decided they like alcohol or drugs, and it is their choice, so they should be free to partake at will. Part of maturity and agency is understanding the scope of what is truly happening. Afab children are children. Sexualization of afab children does not add maturity or agency. And afab children are not filled with "precocious" agency and maturity because of any biology. They are not going to see through the lies of manipulative sexual predators. They are not going to be keeping themselves, and other children, safe. Predators are the ones teaching these afab teens these ideas that warp the definition of "empowerment" and "agency" for the benefit of sexual predators. These afab teens are not going to see how such predators are actually exploiting children. Such sexualized children can, and do, mature as they get older, and may start to realize that no teen should be sexually exploited by any older adult. But in some cases, they may keep believing it is okay for older predators to sexually exploit teens, as Ghislaine Maxwell did. Either way, letting teens think that because they have been groomed by predators to see sexual exploitation as okay for afab teens, letting them think this somehow makes it a strong, empowering choice they are making, is as wrong as letting a teen use fentanyl because they have been told it is "safe" and "fun" by those who benefit from that teen being misled and endangered by using it.