if you believe that sex and gender are synonymous and assigned at birth then someone who doesn’t like their gender becomes a walking contradiction.
any person with a healthy relationship to having their worldview challenged would see that and think “hey maybe i was taught wrong”

unfortunately for everyone on earth conservatives define themselves by thinking that what they were taught is the rightiest thing ever actually so that doesn’t happen

as for why pedophiles specifically, they’re a group of people who are so thoroughly hated any and all violence against them is ‘justified’