Amending the bill to anticipate legal challenges, the California legislature now proposes to ban “any practices of a licensed mental health provider that seek to direct a patient toward a predetermined sexual orientation or gender identity.” Adopting a supposedly content-neutral posture, the bill in its current form appears to propose that therapists can also be sued for trying to talk children into becoming transgender or gay.

lets see…

if a mentally ill man thinks he is a woman (predetermined gender identity)

and a licensed health care provider directs a patient toward that predetermined gender identity…