Dylan Mulvaney calls for making it ‘illegal’ to use non-preferred pronouns

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney said it should be against the law to misgender people by using their non-preferred pronouns in a resurfaced video clip making the rounds on social media.

The TikTok star said in the Oct. 7 post titled “adult bullies” that “when someone writes that I’m a child predator solely based on the fact that I’m a trans woman, well, that’s just bullying.”

“Or even worse in my opinion are, like, the articles written about me using ’he’ pronouns and calling me a man over and over again — I feel like that should be illegal,” the TikTok star said. “I don’t know, that’s just bad journalism.”

Mulvaney uses she/they pronouns.

The comment reignited the debate over the use of preferred pronouns that run counter to a person’s biological sex.

“Dylan Mulvaney calls for the arrest of people who call him a man. Do you still think I’ve been too mean to this guy?” tweeted Daily Wire podcaster Matt Walsh, narrator of the 2022 documentary “What Is a Woman?”

The conservative website Twitchy said Friday that “pointing out that she used to be a he shouldn’t be a crime. This reeks of the ’words are literally violence’ mentality and, quite frankly, we’re over it.”

Sarah Fields, president of the Texas Freedom Coalition, tweeted: “Dylan Mulvaney believes that freedom of speech and freedom of the press should be illegal. It is not illegal to tell the truth. We’re not in commie land … yet. Perhaps this is foreshadowing.”

Dylan Mulvaney thinks any journalist that misgenders him and uses the wrong pronouns should be arrested:

“I feel like that should be illegal.” pic.twitter.com/DLBMXWd5bC

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 27, 2023

Those in favor of preferred pronouns argue that “trans women are women” and should be referred to as “she/her” out of accuracy, courtesy and inclusion.

Opponents counter that compelling people to use opposite-sex pronouns forces them to be complicit in a lie and convey messages with which they disagree.

Mulvaney became a symbol of “woke” corporate America after Bud Light created commemorative cans with the influencer’s picture on it, spurring boycotts and a drop in sales. Two Bud Light executives have taken a leave of absence in the aftermath.

Calls to boycott Maybelline appeared this week over a clip of Mulvaney applying the company’s makeup.

Mulvaney returned to TikTok after a three-week absence Thursday with a video clip discussing the Bud Light backlash.

“I’ve always tried to love everyone, you know, even the people who make it really, really hard,” Mulvaney said. “And I think it’s OK to be frustrated with someone or confused, but what I’m struggling to understand is the need to dehumanize and to be cruel. I just, I don’t think that’s right.”