like referring to someone as he/she/it

Haters gonna hate. You can easily locate the divisive haters when they dismiss someone's opinion because of the category of person they are rather than talking about what's on the table for discussion. Hatred, sexism, racism are all signs that the person has no faith in themselves and out of cowardice and fear of having an authentic conversation which lays bare parts of themselves that they are not proud of, they prefer to name call and not even condescend to participate in the conversations at all. Additionally, if enough people are wrong about the usage of a certain word then the word's meaning has evolved and changed over time. Generally most people don't use pedo to mean normal person who has the trait of being sexually attracted to children. Generally most people use pedo as a synonym of child abuser. In a way, that just means that pedo is now a synonym for child abuser. In modern usage a 30yo with a job and a house who dates a 20yo college student is a pedo. Yeah, they may be "wrong" but it's not for the authorities or scholars to tell the people what words mean. It's word usage which controls and determines whats a synonym with what. https://boychat.org/messages/1610777.htm