We live in an increasingly polarized, pluralistic society. For a multitude of reasons, passionate feelings from contrary opinions abound on significant moral and legal issues in our American culture. Two such issues are parental rights, the right to raise children according to the parents' moral vision within the confines of just law; and gender identity, the question of the natural law/Biblical view of male and female (see Genesis) versus the secular/relativist view of gender being a "social construct." Virginia, the cradle of American liberty, should be the LAST place to ever consider banning a therapeutic process which parents deem vital to their sons and daughters growing up with a healthy view of masculinity and femininity, and Biblical moral principles regarding sexuality. This right of parents is ancient, and the very concept of rights itself was nurtured to maturity in Virginia. Those who would empower the State to neuter parental rights should keep in mind that with such empowerment comes forced policing which goes far beyond matters of parental rights.