Using the incorrect gender pronouns to threaten someone would be a crime under a recently approved Michigan law.
The state House of Representatives of Michigan has approved HB 4474, a bill that makes it illegal to use words to make someone feel threatened.
According to the new legislation, violators are “guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000.”
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The bill defines “intimidate” as a deliberate course of conduct involving repeated or ongoing harassment of another person that would reasonably cause that person to feel terrorised, frightened, or threatened and that actually causes the victim to feel those feelings.
The bill clearly mentions “gender identity or expression” and “sexual orientation” as protected classifications.
The bill states that “‘Gender identity or expression’ means having or being perceived as having a gender-related self-identity or expression, whether or not associated with an individual’s assigned sex at birth.”
The bill’s opponents claim that by imposing speech restrictions and banning the common expression of the traditional, scientific perspective of sex and gender, it violates the First Amendment.
By a vote of 59 to 50, the state House, which is controlled by Democrats, approved the law. It will now be considered by the Michigan State Senate.
It will be sent to Governor Gretchen Whitmer for approval after passing the state senate, and she is anticipated to sign it.
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The law would make it illegal for mental health experts to try to persuade LGBTQ+ teenagers to conform to heterosexuality and conventional gender norms.
