It's no more ridiculous than identifying as the opposite sex. It ticks all the same boxes. You really feel, quite genuinely, a completely different age.
And yes, of course it will be linked to paedophilia.
There was a YouTube video of a man talking to university students saying he identified as a woman. He looked exactly like a man. And he asked them if they accepted it. And they all said yes.
He, after a few minutes, got them to accept and agree he was in fact a five foot one Chinese woman.
They barely turned a hair.
As far as they were concerned, he was what he says he was, and it wasn't their place to disagree.
He was perfectly entitled to identify as a five foot one Chinese woman, on the basis of absolutely nothing, and obviously completely contrary to reality.
The scary thing is they had no tools or resources with which to question or challenge his assertion.
Whatever they personally believed, or didn't believe, had no place in the discourse.
As a result, reality simply could not be discussed.
I, personally, have noticed that saying what everyone else is thinking, is becoming something to be shocked by.
It's fine to be kind in the 'does my bum look big in this' scenario.
But when people are being indoctrinated to accept the wholesale denial of reality, as a means of control and silencing of dissent, something like trans age will absolutely result in the push to legitimise things like paedophilia.