Amy Harmon

The governor signed a bill that prohibited the practice for children, making Wyoming the 24th state to have passed such a ban.

Conservative state governments are forbidding school districts from doing what the Department of Education says they must, under new Title IX regulations on students’ gender identity.

In an election year, efforts to pass limits on transgender rights have slowed in Republican-led legislatures.

Pope Francis, noted for his outreach to gay Catholics, has been described as using an offensive Italian expression for gay men twice in recent weeks.

Unlike in vitro fertilization, the procedure used by the Walzes does not involve freezing embryos, so it has not been targeted by anti-abortion leaders.

Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator, is favored to win in November. She would become the first openly transgender member of Congress.

Ken Paxton, the attorney general, said it was the first enforcement action under a state ban on treatment.

Sarah McBride, a Delaware state senator, competed for the state’s only U.S. House seat.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised to “keep men out of women’s sports” and withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender transition treatment to minors.

The state is one of at least a dozen states to set restrictions on bathrooms for transgender students at public schools.