A doctor who blew the whistle on a Texas hospital’s clandestine program that included administering puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and other sex-change operations on minors is now being prosecuted for his actions by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ). Surgeon Eithan Haim faces at least four felony counts of violating HIPAA in a case being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari.
In 2023 Haim had alerted several media outlets, including City Journal, that the Texas Children’s Hospital transgender medicine program included minor children among its patients, despite the hospital publicly stating otherwise. The ensuing controversy led the Texas state legislature to ban transgender medical procedures from being conducted on minors altogether.
Haim’s actions not only exposed his employer’s dangerous and ethically dubious transgender medical practices but have now drawn unwanted attention from the federal attorneys in the Biden government. Last June, federal agents showed up outside of Haim’s home—perhaps not coincidentally on the same day the doctor was to graduate from his hospital’s residency program. At the time, the agents informed him he was being investigated as a suspect in the leaks regarding transgender medicine practice at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Nearly a year later, the Biden government decided to proceed with its prosecution, which Assistant U.S. Attorney Ansari still oversees. U.S. marshals arrived outside Haim’s home earlier this week with a court summons. The doctor faces four felony charges, all stemming from HIPAA violations. Haim’s attorney insists the doctor went to great lengths to comply with HIPAA standards even in his leaks to the media, redacting any patient identifying information from the documents he provided reporters.
The case appears to be less about HIPAA and more about silencing medical whistleblowers who would expose child sex-change practices at hospitals across the U.S.
