California’s medical credentialing boards would have to fast-track licenses for clinicians and therapists focused on gender transitions and other gender-affirming care under a bill that has already cleared the state assembly.

The legislation would require the state medical board, osteopathic board, nursing board, and physicians assistant board to expedite licenses "for an applicant who demonstrates that they intend to provide gender-affirming health care and gender-affirming mental health care." ...

The bill is pending now in the state senate and appears poised to pass. It comes in the wake of the United Kingdom’s groundbreaking Cass Review, which found that the evidence cited by gender practitioners and activists to support socially transitioning kids or halting their puberty is "remarkably weak."