diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts
index 787d9e7047..d69dee527d 100644
--- a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/Entrypoint/Program.ts
@@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ function checkFunctionReferencedBeforeDeclarationAtTopLevel(
        * A null scope means there's no function scope, which means we're at the
        * top level scope.
        */
-      if (scope === null) {
+      if (scope === null && id.isReferencedIdentifier()) {
         errors.pushErrorDetail(
           new CompilerErrorDetail({
             reason: `Encountered a function used before its declaration, which breaks Forget's gating codegen due to hoisting`,
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/gating/gating-nonreferenced-identifier-collision.expect.md b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/gating/gating-nonreferenced-identifier-collision.expect.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a8f2a8dc58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/gating/gating-nonreferenced-identifier-collision.expect.md
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+
+## Input
+
+```javascript
+// @gating
+import {identity, useHook as useRenamed} from 'shared-runtime';
+const _ = {
+  useHook: () => {},
+};
+identity(_.useHook);
+
+function useHook() {
+  useRenamed();
+  return <div>hello world!</div>;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: useHook,
+  params: [{}],
+};
+
+```
+
+## Code
+
+```javascript
+import { isForgetEnabled_Fixtures } from "ReactForgetFeatureFlag";
+import { c as _c } from "react/compiler-runtime"; // @gating
+import { identity, useHook as useRenamed } from "shared-runtime";
+const _ = {
+  useHook: isForgetEnabled_Fixtures() ? () => {} : () => {},
+};
+identity(_.useHook);
+const useHook = isForgetEnabled_Fixtures()
+  ? function useHook() {
+      const $ = _c(1);
+      useRenamed();
+      let t0;
+      if ($[0] === Symbol.for("react.memo_cache_sentinel")) {
+        t0 = <div>hello world!</div>;
+        $[0] = t0;
+      } else {
+        t0 = $[0];
+      }
+      return t0;
+    }
+  : function useHook() {
+      useRenamed();
+      return <div>hello world!</div>;
+    };
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: useHook,
+  params: [{}],
+};
+
+```
+      
+### Eval output
+(kind: ok) <div>hello world!</div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/gating/gating-nonreferenced-identifier-collision.js b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/gating/gating-nonreferenced-identifier-collision.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f5d557978b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compiler/packages/babel-plugin-react-compiler/src/__tests__/fixtures/compiler/gating/gating-nonreferenced-identifier-collision.js
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// @gating
+import {identity, useHook as useRenamed} from 'shared-runtime';
+const _ = {
+  useHook: () => {},
+};
+identity(_.useHook);
+
+function useHook() {
+  useRenamed();
+  return <div>hello world!</div>;
+}
+
+export const FIXTURE_ENTRYPOINT = {
+  fn: useHook,
+  params: [{}],
+};