This high or real for us. >> reporter: last month, republican texas attorney general ken paxton issued a legal opinion that said gender-affirming procedures and treatments, when performed on children, can legally constitute child abuse. texas children's hospital, the country's largest pediatric facility, paused all gender-affirming therapy for children. >> republican state senator charles perry agrees with the directive's intent. >> i'm faced with the welfare of a child that, and i think the data supports it, to have these decision made for them to understand. >> reporter: in 2016, the briggle...