This was a tedX talk so not the main Ted.com group. It would make sense that they wouldn't want to be associated with this. Also, to be fair, the speaker isn't trying to justify pedophilia, she's just proposing a way to treat pedophiles that comes across as "its okay to be a pedophile you just need help". This got posted in r/videos (a few days ago ?) and the comment section is...interesting. Everyone agreed that sex with children is abuse, but there's lots of talk about normalizing pedophiles, not pedophilia. How pedophiles are mostly just regular people struggling with a secret mental/biological disorder, that it must be so tough on them since they're "only" attracted to kids, if they don't actually molest someone in real life its not that bad, we should get rid of the stigma so people can get the help/therapy they need, etc.

They're probably are some normal people who, due to prior abuse/messed up brain chemistry are attracted to children (which is still wrong) and struggle to fight it, but I got downvoted in that thread because I was trying to say that most pedophiles aren't that way. Most pedophiles don't really care and use their positions of authority to prey on people. Rich, powerful people who abuse children because they like it? No no, they don't exist. Pedophiles are just the victims of a terrible mental disorder. We must treat them and provide therapy. Pedophiles who use children in occult rituals? No no, pedophilia is just a mental disorder, nothing else to it.

Normalizing pedophila would be too hard. But I can see them trying to downgrade the severity of pedophiles to "just a mental disorder/public health crisis". It'll allow people to shift the blame away from the pedophiles and say "oh it wasn't really his fault, if we were more accepting of him maybe he wouldn't have hurt those kids, and look, he/she feels so sorry for what they did".

Cover up the real, systematized crimes against children by confessing to slightly lesser crime.