Jewish Doctor Targeted by DOJ After Blowing Whistle on Kids’ Transgender Clinic

TEXAS (VINnews) — Last year, a whistleblower report exposed a secret gender-change program on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital. The hospital had promised to stop the procedures but continued to perform transgender medical interventions on children as young as 11.

It turns out the whistleblower was former Texas Children’s Hospital general surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim

Following the story’s publication, Texas legislators banned all child gender-change procedures statewide, angering left-wing activists and hospital officials, who opposed any restriction on transgender medicine.

Then Dr. Haim was hit with revenge and retribution by the government. Federal agents tracked him down and identified him as the whistleblower, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari threatened him with prosecution.

On June 23,there was a loud knock from two federal agents from the Department of Health and Human Services saying he was the target of a criminal investigation.

Although he redacted all personal information and did not commit any crimes or violations, the Biden administration has placed a bull’s eye on the back of anyone who interferes with gender procedures.

When Dr. Haim first decided to come forward and expose the hospital, he thought he had nothing to worry about, because Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had issued an opinion stating that gender-change procedures on minors was child abuse.

Texas Children’s Hospital, stated that it was halting its so-called “gender-affirming services.”

“Texas Children’s Hospital paused hormone-related prescription therapies for gender-affirming services,” read a statement from the hospital, the largest pediatric hospital in the country. “This step was taken to safeguard our healthcare professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications.”

Just a few days after the public statement, Dr. Haim learned about a surgery on an 11-year-old girl who believed she was transgender. He continued to hear stories corroborating that the hospital was performing these procedures.

“I reached this unavoidable conclusion that Texas Children’s Hospital is providing this outward appearance that they shut down the program, when in actuality, within the hospital, it’s a very high priority,” Haim said. “I start realizing how blatant this is, how unethical it is, and how they’re lying to the public.”

“This is a huge scandal, right?” he said. “It’s my responsibility as a doctor, as a physician, to expose this to the public. If I don’t, then this abuse can continue. I knew that future generations, like my children, would never be able to forgive me if they knew I had the chance to do something and I decided to stay silent.”

“It requires average, everyday doctors to stand up and speak out against things like this.”

Now the Biden administration is accusing Dr. Haim of violating HIPAA by leaking medical records of transgender children, in order to help conservatives target them. This is completely untrue.

On Dr. Haim’s legal defense fund page, he wrote the following:

“…on June 23rd, 2023, a few hours before my graduation from surgical training, two federal agents showed up to my apartment in a highly atypical, unexpected, and aggressive show of force. Despite their best attempt at launching a surprise interview, I insisted on having an attorney present. Before leaving, however, I was given a target letter signed by a federal prosecutor that stated I was being criminally investigated for a case regarding “medical records.”

Since no laws had been violated (no personally identifiable patient health information was disclosed), this was nothing more than a blatant attempt at political intimidation. We believe this case is being driven by a highly ideological division within the Department of Health and Human Services that aims to silence whistleblowers who expose institutionalized medical corruption and the dangers of these hormone-based interventions for confused, adolescent children.”