As Rip points out, he never makes that statement in the article.
That said, nearly every member on this board has personally been told by a physician, physical therapist, or some other medical-ish professional that we'll "destroy" our knees, backs, and/or hips squatting or deadlifting. All of us who train at commercial gyms routinely see certified personal trainers (90+% chance they're certified by NSCA, ACSM, ACE, or ISSA) teaching all their trainees to half- or quarter-squat. The ACSM explicitly endorses half-squats for "beginners"...check out the figure in page 9 of my article from two years ago, which pulled the image directly from the ACSM's training manual.
http://startingstrength.com/contentf...re_butland.pdf
These are the types of people that will be serving on The Board to create The Standards. The Standards may leave squats and deadlifts alone, but I'm not confident enough of that to take a chance.
What I am confident of is that the Starting Strength Coach credential would not be considered an "acceptable" certification by The Board. We know this because we have seen proposed legislation by lobbyists (USREPS/CREP), and we have seen the bills offered in state legislatures, each of which I meticulously detail in the article.
What I'm also confident of is that if state licensure becomes a reality and personal training becomes "medicalized" (which was the stated end-goal of CREP in their push for licensure), and insurance companies and a Russian nesting doll of third-party payers start getting involved, personal training will become completely unaffordable for average people, unless they can demonstrate a medical need and have an insurance plan that covers it.