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There are plenty of well educated trans and homo phobes out there. Making it about education level sounds classist/elitist and alienating to the many well meaning intelligent people who didn’t have the opportunity to reach levels of higher education.
There are plenty of racist, misogynistic, and bigoted “educated” people.
You don’t need a university classroom to teach you about gender or sex or being a decent human being. All of this information is readily available to the public, in fact, if it takes a Masters or PhD to understand what is yes- in fact basic biology and gender theory, then you’re doing something wrong. And by basic I mean, human biological sex can also be complex and gender is a social construct. It’s an afternoon course not six plus fucking years of schooling.
Yes, oversimplification is weaponized but framing like this can come off as insulting and makes it sound more complex than it needs to be.
It's a recurring problem with humans that something makes them feel bad, and then they stop listening.
Someone who feels bad about how they didn't go to college, and then stops listening to the contents, is a fool.
You are correct that there are many such people, and we should probably avoid triggering them, but it's kind of frustrating we have to constantly walk on eggshells lest someone's fragile ego cracks and a monster comes out.
Not only walking on eggshells, we are literally being forced to put our children in danger of infectious diseases that we got rid of a long fucking time ago