Cal Matters reports:

California lawmakers are advancing a new strategy to discourage efforts to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado law banning the practice. The strategy: Extend the statute of limitations for medical malpractice claims.

A bill introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, would increase the time period during which someone could file a malpractice suit against a mental health professional for trying to change their sexual orientation or gender and harming them in the process. Depending on the age of the person who files the claim, the bill would increase the statute of limitations from three years to 22 years or within five years of discovering the harm.

“You can’t change someone who is LGBTQ into not being LGBTQ. All major medical associations agree that sexual orientation and gender identity are immutable characteristics, and that so-called conversion therapy is fraud that harms patients,” Wiener said during a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Read the full article. Wiener is running for Pelosi’s seat.