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Greg Abbott, signed a letter stating that a number of gender-affirming procedures in children are considered to be child abuse under Texas law.In a letter signed on Tuesday, Abbott told Jaime Masters, commissioner of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, that the state's Office of the Attorney General held the opinion that "a number of so-called 'sex change' procedures constitute child abuse under existing Texas law."Abbott then directed the department to "conduct a prompt and thorough investigation of any reported instances of these abusive procedures in the State of Texas."The White House criticized the move, with a spokesperson describing it as an "attack on loving parents who seek medical care for their transgender children," according to a statement to ABC News.The Texas Family Code defines a "child" as a person under the age of 18.Gender-affirming care is a wide umbrella term referring to medical or social care designed to help affirm someone's gender identity—their internal experience of gender as a male, female, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.