A plurality of US Millennials think "misgendering" someone should be a crime, according to a poll conducted by Newsweek..The poll of 1,500 US adults was conducted in July by Redfield and Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek..Pollsters found 44% of Millenials (born 1981 to 1996) believed "referring to someone by the wrong gender pronoun…should be a criminal offence." Another 31% disagreed, while the remainder had no clear opinion..Millennials are between 27 and 42 years old. Among those aged 35 to 44, 38% said misgendering someone should be illegal. In comparison, 35% disagreed, with 26% either "don't know or didn't express an opinion." .Among Generation Z (18 to 24), 48% opposed making misgendering a "criminal offense," while 33% favored criminalizing it. .Overall, 19% of Americans told pollsters they wanted to see misgendering become a criminal offence, while a solid majority of respondents (65%) thought otherwise. Another 12% "neither agree nor disagree," while 4% "don't know.".Thirty-seven percent of respondents said they would address a trans-identified biological male using "she/her" pronouns, while only 17% maintained they would continue to address the individual using "he/him" pronouns..Twenty-eight percent said referring to a trans-identified male with female pronouns "depends on the person," and 4% said they "don't know." .Similarly, 38% of Americans stated that they would refer to a trans-identified biological female using "he/him" pronouns, 18% would not, 27% said it depended on the person and the rest were unsure. .Some who have insisted on using non-preferred pronouns have suffered negative professional consequences in various parts of the world..Joshua Sutcliffe, a Christian teacher in England, was fired in 2017 after "misgendering" a trans-identified student by calling them female..In May, 2023, the Teaching Regulation Agency banned Sutcliffe from teaching in schools across the United Kingdom. Sutcliffe said, "I have been bullied and pursued and have had every part of my life scrutinized for expressing my Christian faith and biological truth.".In June, former Mexican Congressman Rodrigo Ivan Cortes was convicted of "gender-based political violence" for calling a certain trans-identified politician as a "man who self-ascribes as a woman" in social media posts. Mexican Congressman Gabriel Quadri was also convicted for making similar comments about the same person..Last November, the Christian Post reported a female student-athlete in Vermont was suspended for using male pronouns regarding an athlete who identified as female. Her father, who was a middle school girls' soccer coach in the same school district, was suspended without pay for doing the same thing. .Last month, Glendale Unified School District Parents Voices claimed that California students were suspended because they "misgendered" a trans-identified teacher.
