Well, no, there is. Normal people don't have problems with incredibly mild requests like that.
What is normal? And the way I've seen these requests get made are in no way mild.
My guess is too much conservative culture war nonsense being pushed on you by your right wing news.
Guess again.
Outrage brings more viewers after all so convincing people things are problems that really don't negatively effect them at all is good for business.
You must have a lot of experience with being outraged by news.
Think real hard here, why would being required to write "he" on a piece of paper work be so hard for you?
Nothing, I do it all the time.
Keep in mind that said paper work likely has many other required and far more personal pieces of information that it requires from you that you will dutifully fill out without thinking twice.
What "said" paper? You're implying a form of some sort, obviously, but I'm trying to think of any form I've ever filled out that has explicitly asked for a pronoun, other than perhaps a complaint form or a witness statement. I haven't had the need to fill out any such forms in decades.
As I've already pointed out though, I don't believe for a second that you were ever required to do this. Those fields are always optional.
And as I've already stated twice: I've never been pressured to do this. I have however heard from others who have, and have seen others get pressured to do it publicly. You don't have to have personally been wronged before you're allowed to say something. The fact that you have made great effort to indicate that you clearly believe otherwise suggests that you have either no intelligence worth speaking of, no integrity, or more likely, neither of the two whatsoever.