[Y]ou... support the State punishing people for not using "preferred pronouns"...
No I don't.
This is a category error you are making, and a Straw-Man argument.
I support the state punishing the state and members thereof for publicly revealing information which falls under privacy. People have a right to fair and normal treatment, which today includes being respected by your boss and coworkers. I support the state taking measures against state workplace hostilities, and against hostilities engaged in by the state against the public.
I support any person speaking out against any person (speaking out against, mind, not "punishing"), who fails to maintain such decorum in general.
This is not the same as the state punishing people over "pronouns", it is merely the state doing what it must to keep it's skin out of that game, and people doing what they must to not get dragged into stupid games in general.
We don't need to play "Hi I'm John, my pronouns are (they have a dick)". It's not even a game people are going to remain very good at, when people can now decide of their own rights and power which hormonal reality to experience. And it's a shitty game to drag others into.
Mostly because if I want to know if John has a dick, I can take John on a couple of dates or maybe if I'm really lucky, John will just tell me. In this way, being told what genitals someone has in fact be ones a useful clue in interacting: that they have opened the door to more
context.
Of course here you are in a thread loudly demanding that people, the state, even, start talking about what genitals people have.