NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Some 2,000 people turned out for the “Rally to End Child Mutilation” held in downtown Nashville Friday as a host of conservative speakers vowed to make gender transition for children illegal. The mainly conservative crowd gathered at the War Memorial Plaza near the state capital in support of stopping surgery and chemical castration of…

A new survey of voters who say they are likely to go to the polls on Nov. 8 finds the vast majority of them—including 53 percent of self-described Democrats—oppose administering puberty-blocking drugs to minors. The survey by the Atlanta-based Trafalgar Group of 1,079 likely voters found that 78.7 percent of the respondents answered positively when…