The Justice Department has dropped a case against Texas doctor Eithan Haim, who revealed that a children’s hospital was performing gender-transition treatments on minors after claiming that it was no longer doing so.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice filed a motion Friday to dismiss the case against Dr. Eithan Haim of Dallas that had been brought by the Biden administration. Later that day, U.S. District Judge David Hittner granted the motion.
The case was dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning it cannot be filed again in the future.
“WE DID IT!!!! WE WON!!!!!!!” Haim exulted on X Friday afternoon.
That “win” was a long time coming.
Hypocritic Oath
Haim’s ordeal began in March 2022, when Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) announced that it would stop providing “gender-affirming care” to minors following Governor Greg Abbott’s order to the state’s child-welfare agency to consider such treatment child abuse.
Haim, then a resident at Baylor College of Medicine, soon learned the Houston hospital was not keeping its promise.
“There were a few residents who I knew who said that they had just finished implanting a puberty-blocking device in an 11, 12, 13-year-old kid who believed they were transgender, who had all these psychiatric issues which were being unaddressed,” Haim, who had worked at TCH during his residency, told CBN News last March.
Haim’s wife, Andrea, posted on X Friday:
When this case started … Texas Children’s Hospital was mutilating and sterilizing young children while hiding it from the public.
Literally hundreds of people knew it was happening. Some even thought it was wrong, but were so morally weak that they performed the surgeries anyway.
@EithanHaim was the only person with the courage to stand up for what was right. For him, it wasn’t even a decision. Kids were being harmed, and he had to stop it.
Haim’s method of stopping it was to obtain medical records proving TCH was lying and to leak them to journalist Christopher Rufo, who published a story on TCH’s duplicity in May 2023. Both Haim and Rufo claim that Haim had redacted the patients’ names and other personally identifiable information prior to giving the records to Rufo.
The day after Rufo’s story came out, the Texas Legislature passed a law banning gender treatments for minors in the Lone Star State.
Whistleblower, Stop
The New American previously reported:
Five weeks later, on the very day Haim was to graduate from surgical training, federal agents appeared at his door. Haim took the advice of his wife, who was then seeking to become an Assistant U.S. Attorney, not to speak to them without an attorney present. They then gave him a letter signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari informing him that he was a “potential target” of a criminal investigation into a case involving “medical records.”
In a letter to Congressmen Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Chip Roy (R-Texas), Haim’s lawyers claimed that Ansari seemed determined to pin something on Haim. “She stated that if she thought Dr. Haim had violated the law, she would take him to trial by jury, even ‘on a technicality’ and without concern for losing,” they wrote. Ansari also allegedly defended TCH and threatened Andrea Haim’s career with the Justice Department.
In June 2024, the Biden Justice Department obtained an indictment against Haim charging him with violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) prohibition on revealing confidential medical records. If convicted, Haim could have faced up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Haim and his attorneys maintained that the indictment was aimed at intimidating not just Haim but other potential whistleblowers. He told the Daily Wire:
Why should I be intimidated into silence when what we exposed was voted to become illegal, and I had not violated any privacy laws? For me, it’s obvious that this is a political investigation in order to prevent this from happening at other hospitals that might be lying to the public about the existence of their programs.
“There’s nothing a doctor should do behind closed doors that they’re unwilling to defend in public,” Haim told the Daily Caller. “That’s never how medicine should be, especially when it involves children.”
“Show Trial” to No Trial
Ansari ended up recusing herself from the case in November after Haim’s attorneys uncovered a potential conflict of interest: Her family owns a coffee and tea company whose customers include TCH and Baylor College of Medicine.
That same day, the Justice Department sought to impose a gag order on Haim to prevent him from criticizing the prosecution, especially by reposting others’ X posts. Haim fought the motion into December, and a federal judge ultimately rejected it.
With the case set to go to trial on February 10, “the last few days have been terrifying,” wrote Andrea Haim. “Eithan was a hair’s breadth away from federal jail and a show trial that would make Stalin blush – all because he spoke out on X.”
Her husband’s victory, she penned, “came at great personal cost” including “hundreds of sleepless nights” and all their money. “We are,” she averred, “completely broke.”
“But,” she added, “if you ask either of us, we would do it again in a heartbeat. Because of Eithan, the world is a better place for children, including our daughter. There is no greater gift we can give her than the knowledge that her daddy is a hero.”
