The "fact checker" lies, again!-----No, Michigan bill won't criminalize use of wrong pronouns | Fact check

No, Michigan bill won't criminalize use of wrong pronouns | Fact check

• The claim: A Michigan bill would make using a person’s wrong gender pronouns a felony...
• Our rating: False

"The bill would have no effect on a person’s First Amendment right to free speech, lawmakers from both parties and legal experts say. The bill language does not include the word "pronoun." 

• What it would criminalize is conduct, specifically intimidation...
• The Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill on June 20 that would expand the state’s 35-year-old hate crime law to include protections for sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability and age. It carries penalties of up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine....
• It would allow prosecutors to bring hate-crime charges against those who “maliciously and intentionally” intimidate people because they belong to a protected group.

Some people could argue that using an incorrect gender pronoun counts as intimidation...
It defines intimidation as a “willful course of conduct” involving “repeated or continuing harassment” that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened or threatened.