Bill creating process for transgender Utahns to legally change their gender fails

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill intended to make it clear how transgender people could legally change their gender through the courts failed in the Senate on Friday after a lengthy and sometimes emotional debate.The sponsor of SB138, Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, choked up as he described watching a neighbor family deal with a transgender child. Weiler said he had felt the issue was foreign to him until he realized their vulnerability."My decision has been to try to love people," Weiler said, s