There is the concept of a rolling age gap. As perspective partners get older, the age gap grows.

Example. A 16 and 17 year old? Nobody blinks. 16 and 18? You have eyes in yah. 16 to 19, likely to get icked. 17 to 19? You have eyes in your. 18 to 20? Nobody cares. 18 to 21?

Like a 25yr old and a 30 yr old? See what I mean? The further you get from 18, the wider the acceptable gap of ages is.

-sigh- It isn’t about IF it’s controversial, but WHY it is seen that way. Conservatism requires a minority to use as a boogeyman that needs defeated. They use this manufactured scare as a way to get votes and power.

It has been the tactic ever since Feudalism fell as a way to get back the power they held back then.

I’m ignoring your previous statements to reach out in good faith and hope for the best. Don’t give in to the propaganda that trans people are more likely to commit crimes than the greater population. Instead, they are more likely to be the victims, and the laws passed to hurt them end up hurting cis people as well.