A person who told the government about a Texas hospital that was reportedly secretly providing gender-affirming care to minors was charged with a crime by the Department of Justice.
The surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim did his training at the Texas Children’s Hospital. He has been charged with four felonies for allegedly breaking HIPAA rules. Haim has said he will fight the claims and said the DOJ is dishonest.
“They tried to scare me into silence by using every tool the federal government had at their disposal.” “But they failed,” Haim wrote on X Thursday. “Giving in to corruption is the only way to lose.” Now is the time to fight back even more!”
Marcella Burke, Haim’s lawyer, told Fox News Digital, “My client is eager to get to trial to get his side of the story told.” I am sure that this will lead to the right choice being made.
In May 2023, Haim gave journalist Christopher Rufo papers that showed the Texas Children’s Hospital kept running its child gender clinic even after they said they had to stop, which was against the law.
Rufo had already said that none of the papers he got from Haim had personal details about clinic patients on them.
This week, U.S. agents went to Haim’s house to give him a summons and tell him to go to court to face the charges.
In February 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that “gender-affirming care” for children could be considered child abuse under state law. Following month, Texas Children’s Hospital announced that it would cease all transgender-related medical care and operations on children.
In an article in the City Journal, Haim said that three days after the news came out, a surgeon put a hormone device into an 11-year-old girl who was having gender confusion.
Haim said that these treatments happened more often over the next year.
A law was passed in Texas that banned transgender medical interventions on minors after the May 14, 2023, story by Rufo that included Haim’s first-hand report.
Haim said that in June, two federal agents came to his house and told him that he was a “potential target” for a probe into possible violations of federal criminal law.
Haim is due in court on June 10 to learn more about the charges against him that have to do with medical records.
The DOJ and Texas Children’s Hospital did not respond right away when Fox News Digital asked them for a response.
