Michigan criminalises midge seeing with five years in jail or 10k fine

[Jongleterre]

thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/03/michigan-criminalizes-misgendering-with-5-years-in-jail-or-10k-fine/

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I'll stick with seeing midges if its all the same to you. Best Mumsnet typo I've seen!

This is the bill:
^legiscan.com/MI/text/HB4474/2023^

But I can't see anything in that about pronouns, so the media may be putting their own spin on what constitutes intimidation.

Yes, the offences are:

<span class="italic">(a) Uses force or violence on another individual.</span>

(b) Causes bodily injury to another individual.
(c) Intimidates another individual.
(d) Damages, destroys, or defaces any real, personal, digital, or online property of another individual without the consent of that individual.
(e) Threatens, by word or act, to do any of the actions described under subdivisions (a) to (d).

At a stretch it could come under "intimidates" if part of intimidating behaviour.