Posted on 06/07/2024 11:32:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
Eithan Haim blew the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital’s illegal child sex-change program. Now he’s being prosecuted.
A few years ago, Texas Children’s Hospital made no secret of its support for transgender medicine. Its doctors proudly administered puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and other medical interventions to children who self-identified as “trans.”
Then the tone shifted. In the face of public pressure, CEO Mark Wallace announced that he was shutting down the child gender clinic. But doctors at the hospital, including Richard Ogden Roberts, David Paul, and Kristy Rialon, never stopped.
The public would not have known if not for a courageous surgeon, Eithan Haim, who felt morally obligated to expose the subterfuge. He contacted me about how the hospital had lied about terminating the transgender medicine program, and that doctors were, in fact, continuing to perform sex-change procedures on children as young as 11.
The story rocketed across the world. The hospital immediately went on the defensive. Within a week, Texas legislators passed a bill confirming that transgender medical procedures for minors were illegal.
But the story also attracted attention from another powerful source: federal prosecutors. The Department of Justice has not shied from targeting political opponents of the Biden administration: former President Trump; conservative school board protesters; persons praying outside of abortion clinics; and now, doctors who dissent from transgender ideology.
On the morning in June 2023 that Haim was to graduate from Texas Children Hospital’s residency program, federal agents knocked on his door. They had identified him as a potential “leaker,” presumably through forensic examination of the hospital’s computer systems. Shortly thereafter, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari began threatening Haim with prosecution.
Now, Ansari has made good on those threats. Earlier this week, U.S. marshals appeared at Haim’s home and summoned him to court to face an indictment on four felony counts of violating HIPAA. His initial appearance is next Monday, where he will learn more about the charges against him.
According to one of Haim’s attorneys, Marcella Burke, he is anxious to get to trial to get his side of the story told; she is confident that this will result in the correct decision being made. (For my own part, I can confirm that nothing in the information provided to me identified any individual; all the documents were, in fact, carefully redacted.) Nonetheless, the prosecutor has pressed forward, hoping, at the least, to intimidate other medical professionals who would consider blowing the whistle on the barbarism of “transgender medicine.”
Despite the threat to his livelihood and freedom, Haim is undeterred. He plans to mount a vigorous defense in court and is soliciting public support.
The Haim case marks an inflection point in the debate on “gender-affirming care.” If Haim prevails, other courageous doctors and medical professionals will follow his lead and speak out. We will need all their voices if we are to succeed in shutting down the child sex-change business in the United States.
We know when we are right over the target, don’t we.
Enemy of the State
The Left is thoroughly deranged.
Someday the broken leftovers of the people they sexually mutilated will sue them - and hopefully take them for everything they've got.
They indicted Dr. Who?
Impound the Tardis?
The Communist Purge Continues To Grow Exponentially & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
I work under HIPAA and I understand it as well as anyone does.
What, specifically, is he accused of doing that is a violation of the law?
“leaking”...........................
The Left has moved from aborting children to sterilization of children
Sterilization of children is the ultimate form of ‘grooming’.
When the child becomes and adult they will be a complete mental case and will probably commit suicide or dive into drugs and alcohol.
So the ‘groomer’ is safe....................
Well he may have violated employer policy (looks like he did), but HIPAA covers only Protected Health Information (PHI) which is defined, among other things, as containing information that identifies an individual.
Did he do that, or not? The article isn’t clear.
From the article, he is accused of leaking the kids names. He denies this, and the reporter leaked to backs him up.
The DOJ also asserts he exposed the doctors to harm by revealing their names.
My opinion, after reading a lot about this from Twitter, is the DOJ wants to make an example of him to stifle any other whistleblowers. It doesn’t matter if the DOJ ultimately loses the case: the process will have ruined this recent graduate’s medical career.
For as long as this drags on, no hospital will be enthusiastic about admitting him to their residency programs, and the accusations of HIPAA violations will give them an excuse to pass on him.
It really sucks when your government takes personal interest in you.
Expect another kangaroo court trial with corrupt judge, DA, and rigged jury.
How can it be a “HIPAA violation” if he didn’t use any patient names?
HIPPA is written to protect you from everyone but your government.
That is not an accident.
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