Oh no, they are not in denial of it, in fact they support it. Cases in point: movements towards child “rights” and “emancipation,” the support for the elimination of age of consent laws (supposedly to protect teenage boys from prosecution, yeah right), and, most grotesquely, recent mumblings in support of having pedophilia removed from the APA’s list of mental illnesses (aka THE END GAME).
OK. I can see that.
In that case, they’re feigning surprise at this.