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University of Colorado site declares misgendering an “act of violence”

June 01, 2023 - misgendering. Moreover, the guide reflects a deep-felt concern that using someone’s pronouns incorrectly, even unintentionally, leads to “dysphoria, exclusion and alienation.” There are also some positive recommendations in dealing with these difficult situations.

However, this is a university site and there are countervailing free speech costs to characterizing opposing views on pronouns as violence. We have previously discussed how other countries are prosecuting ...

CensorTrack with TR: Twitter bans conservatives for ‘misgendering’ Rachel Levine

November 07, 2021 -

(Article by Tierin-Rose Mandelburg republished from NewsBusters.org)

Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN) was suspended on Twitter last week for “misgendering” Rachel Levine who is the HHS Deputy Secretary. Levine was recently named “First Openly Transgender Four-Star Officer and First Female Four-Star Admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps on October 19, 2021” according to a release from the U.S. Department of Human Health and Services.

Rep....

School punishes first-grader after “misgendering” a gender-confused classmate

September 01, 2017 -

The little girl was called into the principal's office to determine if she had intentionally called her trans schoolmate by his original name as an insult. An hour after the investigation began, the little girl's “deadnaming” — the trans community's term for calling someone by their birth name — was found to be an honest mistake, so she was neither reprimanded nor punished.

According to Karen England, Executive Director of Capitol Resource Institute, however, the little ...

Coming to America: Canadian man fined $55,000 for misgendering a ‘transgender’

April 10, 2019 - misgendering Morgane Oger (birth name Ronan Oger), a male-to-female “transgender” and a 2017 New Democratic Party candidate, calling Oger a biological male (which is what he is) in street flyers and on the Internet.

In the Tribunal’s 105-page ruling, authored by Devyn Cousineau, Oger — a biological male — is referred to as “Ms.,” “she” and “her”.

The Tribunal says:

When Ms. Oger and her team learned of the Flyer, they had to formulate ...

Michigan House of Representatives passes bill that makes “misgendering” a HATE CRIME

July 04, 2023 - misgendering" is now an "act of violence," meaning Leftist punishment for this heinous "crime" is coming next.)

HB 4474 defined "intimidation" as a "willful course of conduct involving repeated or continuing harassment of another individual that would cause a reasonable individual to feel terrorized, frightened or threatened. It also defined "gender identity or expression" as "having or being perceived as having a gender-related self-identity or expression, whether ...

ABSURD: Dallas enacts new policy allowing employees to be FIRED for “misgendering”

June 07, 2023 - misgendering"

Missing from the documents is any clarification as to what other kinds of punishments are to be levied against violators other than termination. It is apparently up to transgenders themselves to decide how their "offenders" will be punished.

"Because, as we know, LGBTQ ideologues are never irrational or vindictive," joked Catherine Salgado, writing for PJ Media. "What could go wrong?"

Further, the documents written by the Dallas City Council state ...

Canada’s state media is targeting those who resist LGBT dogmas on ‘misgendering’

February 18, 2022 - misgendering” and “deadnaming” cease forthwith, and that all of the demands of this student are promptly followed. This is journalism as activism.

The student featured here is “Alex,” who uses the pronoun “they” and came out as transgender in Grade 7. That means the student was only 12 or 13 when he or she — it’s impossible to tell which — discovered that he or she was in possession of the wrong body. According to Alex, some teachers and students “weren’t supportive” ...

INSANITY: Teacher fired for “misgendering” a student sues school, calls policies “totalitarian”

December 25, 2017 -

The teacher, Joshua Sutcliffe, apologized to one of the teens, a transgender student who reportedly identifies as male, but wound up being suspended by the school while it conducted an investigation. Shortly thereafter, the Oxfordshire-based school determined Sutcliffe, 27, had "misgendered" the student and engaged in discrimination, resulting in his dismissal.

In response, Sutcliffe described the school's equality policies as "totalitarian" in a letter to the headmaster ...

PRONOUNS PUKED: California court strikes down law that punishes the “misgendering” of LGBT

July 22, 2021 - misgendering ... without requiring that such occasional instances … amount to harassing or discriminatory conduct."

The Epoch Times reached out to California Attorney General Rob Bonta for comment about the ruling. However, it did not receive a reply by press time.

Many have disputed the concept of gender identity as it went against the long-established truth of male and female being the only two genders. However, social media platforms have contributed to the ...

Western media now fully “woke” by refusing to report transgender rape to avoid “misgendering”

June 06, 2022 -

Now, apparently, the Western media has become so "woke" and so concerned about the concept of 'gender' that it refuses to accurately report the nature of horrific crimes -- like rape.

According to Reclaim The Net:

The BBC has been accused of violating the journalistic principle of accuracy by changing the testimony of a rape victim to avoid “misgendering” the accused rapist, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman.

In the testimony, ...

Virginia teacher axed for MISGENDERING student gets $575K settlement from school district that fired him

October 14, 2024 - misgendering a second time, prompting the parents of the gender-confused student to pull her out of his class.

For this, Vlaming was slapped with a one-month suspension while WPPS reviewed his conduct to determine whether it violated the school district's "harassment or retaliation" policy. WPPS Superintendent Laura Abel mandated Vlaming to use male pronouns for the student "regardless of location or context, even outside of school."

When Vlaming indicated ...

Nearly half of people aged 25-34 believe that “misgendering” someone should be a CRIMINAL offense

July 26, 2023 -

Nearly half of the millennial demographic believes that "misgendering," as they also call it, should be a crime in the United States, while just 31 percent believe that misgendering should count as freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

One in four millennials indicated uncertainty as to whether or not misgendering should be a crime.

The 35-44 age group offered similar feedback with 38 percent of them saying they are in favor of criminalizing ...

Ireland passes controversial hate speech law: Those caught “misgendering” someone will face five years in prison

May 15, 2023 - misgendering" someone is a punishable offense. Gender, for instance, is defined as such:

"The gender which a person expresses as the person's preferred gender, or with which the person identifies, and includes transgender, and a gender other than those of male and female."

Section 7 of the bill specifically makes it a criminal offense for someone to communicate anything in a public place that could be construed as "inciting violence or hatred" against someone ...

Trump administration opposes Colorado bill that seeks to remove custody from parents on the basis of “MISGENDERING”

April 27, 2025 -

The Trump administration has voiced out its opposition to a Colorado bill that would strip custody from parents who refuse to deceive their gender-confused children, under the guise of "affirming their child's transgender identity."

Lawmakers in the Centennial State have advanced the Kelly Loving Act, which would classify "misgendering" or "deadnaming" a child as potential grounds for losing custody in family court disputes. The bill, named ...

Michigan legislators pass “hate speech” legislation prohibiting “misgendering” – violators face five-year prison sentence or $10,000 fine

July 09, 2023 - misgendering" to be an "act of violence.")HB 4474 is a leftist "weapon" against conservatives, professor emeritus says

Despite the above definition, neither the Michigan House nor HB 4474 have offered any kind of objective definition against which "intimidation" or "harassment," in this context, can be defined. Consequently, it would be entirely up to the interpretation of the listener, as well as the local prosecutor, to make such a determination in a legal sense....

Twitter cancels deal with the Daily Wire to stream ‘What is a Woman?’ over ‘misgendering,’ will label film ‘hateful conduct’

June 02, 2023 - misgendering.’” Boreing said in a Tweet thread explaining Twitter’s reversal.

“Specifically: In the film, a father refers to his 14-year-old daughter as ‘her,’ and a store owner uses the ‘wrong’ pronoun in a confrontation with a transgender woman,” Boreing continued.

Twitter canceled a deal with @realdailywire to premiere What is a Woman? for free on the platform because of two instances of “misgendering.”

I’m not kidding.

Here's what happened:?...

Don’t look now, but “misgendering” is now an “act of violence,” meaning Leftist punishment for this heinous “crime” is coming next

September 08, 2020 -

While coronavirus continues to kill Americans, the Chinese are on the move in Asia, our economy is still suffering, and there is an extremely important presidential election in a few short months. The Daily Beast carved out bandwidth and funding for a ‘story’ in which writer Dawn Ellis lamented the “relentless misgendering of Dr. Rachel Levine,” who is Pennsylvania’s man-like health secretary.

It’s “violence,” Ellis claims, leading us to believe that she’s ...

Popular French author faces criminal charges for “misgendering” a male mayor with gender dysphoria by calling him “a man” – which he IS

May 19, 2023 -

Tilloy-lez-Marchiennes Mayor "Marie Cau," a male who now pretends to be a woman, and Hanneli Escurier, a female journalist who pretends to be a man, are both upset at Moutot for calling them what they actually are, rather than what they are pretending to be.

The two mentally deranged individuals are suing Moutot with the support of Mousse and SOS Homophobie, two LGBT organizations that apparently believe people should be punished for refusing to play-pretend on demand with ...

Elon Musk’s Twitter cancels deal with Daily Wire to stream “What is a Woman?” – film to be labeled “hateful conduct”

June 06, 2023 - misgendering,'" Boreing said in a Twitter thread about the reversal.

"Specifically: In the film, a father refers to his 14-year-old daughter as 'her,' and a store owner uses the 'wrong' pronoun in a confrontation with a transgender woman."

(Related: Learn more about "What is a Woman?" from our earlier coverage.)This is TYRANNY - the public WANTS this content

As of now, "What is a Woman?" is the most-watched movie at home, according to Rotten Tomatoes....

Using the “wrong pronoun” in reference to transgenders an act of “violence,” claims Rhode Island official

November 27, 2022 - misgendering students is an act of violence. Respond accordingly."

"I recognize that some may find the use of the word violence in this post extreme," Lima wrote above the image.

"Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as 'the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological ...