Governor Northam's "Guidance Document on the Practice of Conversion Therapy" is an insult to reality, human dignity, science, and medicine - not to mention parental and patient rights. No amount of psychotherapy, hormones, surgery, role-playing, and imagination can change one's gender.  Rather, all that "treatment" serves to do is make many people (but not the patient) very rich $$!  As for the patient, he/she will not only remain mentally ill, but will also become physically impaired, scarred, and poorer.  Transgenderism is a HUGE lie and profit-making scheme.  It has destroyed people, families, communities, churches, and even divided entire religious sects.  It has taken over our education establishment.  We all know that the real "conversion" occurs when a person becomes confused about his/her gender typically as a result of abuse (most likely sexual) and/or indoctrination -- often perpetrated by trusted individuals.  To deny people true healing from such abuse not only equates to real malpractice, but it lends credibility to the abusers.  And no finagling of terminology, regulation, or laws will change facts and reality.