Further, this bill protects parents from practices that may do harm to their family unbeknownst to them. I'm grateful to a submitter from a well-known church who submitted to the committee about her own experiences joining a church as a teenager from a household that didn't attend. She talked about the guilt and shame that she felt when her pastors came to her and wanted to speak with her about her sexuality and her gender identity, and the worry she felt about talking with her parents about the practice that she had been exposed to in a church that they didn't approve of. This bill draws a line under those practices and it protects parents, as well.