It cannot be as dumb as that. I don't have a uni education, so I might not understand. But they must have a better argument. The question of how you can surgically alter your sex must be based on something. Anything! "Trans women are women" ...that is what they believe.
I hate being dumb.
It is as dumb as that.
Listen, you don't need a uni education to be
smart. Uni supposedly educates you, takes your native intelligence and focuses it, until You Know Stuff.
But what I learned when I took a hard science class was that people that we think of as "smart", let's say doctors because they study a lot of science, aren't necessarily
smart, but what they
do have is an excellent
memory and the ability to repeat facts they have previously learned.
A smart person has that ability, yes, but they can also extrapolate from what they've learned and apply it to things that come up in life. Schools can't really test for that well, they try, but it's hard.
It's like the old lawyer joke: What do you call a lawyer who got all Cs in law school? Counselor.
A lot of people with lots of degrees have the first ability, because that's all it takes to get through uni. At least at the undergrad level. I cannot speak to grad school, but if you want to see good examples of people who have
doctorates who arguably have the first ability but not the second, read Grace Lavery and Rhys McKinnon's threads. Both of them are dumb as boxes full of rocks, yet they both have PhDs.
So, no. A uni degree - or twelve - doesn't make you smart, nor does the lack of it make you stupid.