# Republicans' war on transgender people: Omnibus thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 3, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609 "2022-06-03T02:20:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2023, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-war-on-transgender-people-omnibus-thread/965609/1581 "2023-09-18T13:21:20Z")

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> [@Babale](#):
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> Pro tip: something being socially constructed doesn’t make it not “real”.

They [didn’t get it 3 months ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doesn-t-the-existence-of-trans-people-imply-an-underlying-biological-fact-of-the-matter-regarding-gender/979434/185), they’re not going to get it now. Especially when they play with their own definitions like this:

> [@Riemann](#):
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> If gender identity is a social construct then that (by definition) implies that the only contributing causal factors are social.

Where does it say social constructions _only_ have social contributing factors?

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