The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has withdrawn the Biden-Harris administration’s case against Eithan Haim, a Texas-based physician who exposed gender-reassignment procedures being performed on minors despite state bans on the practice. “The United States has finally agreed to drop the case against Dr. Haim, and the Court just granted dismissal,” Marcella Burke, attorney for Eithan Haim, told Fox News.
“The case has been dismissed with prejudice so that the federal government can never again come after him for blowing the whistle on the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children’s Hospital,” she added. In a statement of his own, Haim said, “We took on the most powerful federal leviathan in human history and won! This is credit to the power of truth and justice being able to destroy lies and corruption.”
Haim was initially targeted by the Biden Department of Justice in 2022 after exposing gender reassignment procedures taking place at Texas Children’s Hospital. In June of last year, the doctor was indicted on four felony counts related to an alleged breach of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), according to a statement from prosecutors at the time.
Haim discusses the case in an interview with the National Review.
In 2023, Haim anonymously leaked evidence to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo. The leaked documents revealed that Texas Children’s Hospital continued performing gender reassignment surgeries on minors despite a 2022 order from Texas Governor Greg Abbott to halt the practice. Abbott’s directive classified such surgeries as child abuse, a measure mirrored by state legislatures in several other states. The Houston State Hospital ultimately ended its gender reassignment program after Texas lawmakers passed legislation in 2023 banning “gender-affirming care” for minors.
In January 2023, Haim publicly identified himself as the whistleblower to shield himself from potential retaliation by the Biden Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services. Federal investigators had notified Haim in 2022 that he was the target of a criminal investigation for allegedly failing to redact sensitive patient information when he disclosed the documents.
“After understanding how far this corruption went, I had no other option but to take the story public and fight back,” Haim said. “If I don’t do this now, I’m going to pass on this conflict to my children. That’s something I will not tolerate. There was this deep visceral part of me that knew exactly what was happening — that they were there because we had challenged the political ideology, and they were there to make an example out of me,” he added while describing the moment federal agents arrived at his home.
Trump on Friday also pardoned more than a dozen pro-life activists and demonstrators who had been targeted by the Biden-Harris regime and sentenced to prison.
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