No.
Pronouns are predominately used by white university educated kids......who are probably also vegan and extremely left wing.
Generally speaking pronouns are not used by the working class, or people over 25.
It's kids stuff, and utter lunacy.
What utter rubbish. Pronouns are used by everyone to avoid the tedious and repetitive use of names in normal communication. They include his, her, its, their, me, mine, yours and others.
They had been used a single pronoun for centuries until the people who had been taught Latin grammar was perfect decided it also applied to English. This is where most of the asinine and contentious 'rules' came from, like not splitting an infinitive or beginning a sentence with a conjunction. Those are both impossible in Latin.
James should reply, in writing, to the originator of the document that he considers being misgendered offensive and insensitive. If he can work in casual and inappropriate he'll hit all the buttons. Copying this reply to their HR department is probably a good idea too.
Every time I hear of this, I wonder if it's a problem in other languages that still have gendered nouns where changing the gender refers to a completely different object, or those that don't use genders at all. Remember,
gender is a grammatical term that is not synonymous with
sex. Confusing those is probably the cause of this. Conflating them definitely is.