Abbott's order has created a confusing and murky legal question because it is based on an attorney general's legal opinion, which does not carry the weight of law.
"In the immediate legal sense, this doesn’t change anything," Chase Strangio, a director for transgender justice at the American Civil Liberties Union told USA TODAY. "... There are laws in place that separately protect parents through any sort of proceeding. So in terms of whether this means that every parent of a trans kid is going to be investigated immediately, no, it doesn’t (mean that)."
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