DOJ Drops Charges Against Texas Surgeon Who Blew Whistle on Transgender Procedures on Minors
Haim had gathered hospital records, which were then used to accuse the hospital of secretly rendering transgender-related procedures for minors.

Federal prosecutors have dismissed their case against a Texas surgeon accused of obtaining private information on patients who were not under his care.

Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, allegedly exposed information on transgender-related treatment and minors from a Texas hospital. The manner in which he obtained the records resulted in federal charges against him in U.S. district court in Houston.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) wrote on social media platform X that after his phone call with Department of Justice (DOJ) leadership on Friday, the department was moving to dismiss the charges.
Hawley called Haim “the brave whistleblower who exposed illegal gender transition surgeries on minors in Texas.”

“He should be thanked, not prosecuted,” Hawley wrote.

The DOJ subsequently issued a joint motion to dismiss the case.
“The United States, appearing through its undersigned attorneys, and the defendant, Eithan David Haim, hereby move this Court for an order dismissing the Second Superseding Indictment and all open counts with prejudice,” said acting U.S. attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner granted the joint motion to drop the charges, with prejudice, which. means the federal government cannot pursue the same charges against Haim in the future.
“This fully vindicates Dr. Haim,” Burke Law Group, who helped represent Haim, stated in a post on X.

Prosecutors alleged Haim exploited his position as a surgeon by obtaining and sharing information with a conservative activist with the intent to inflict malicious damage upon Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

In June 2024, Haim pleaded not guilty to four counts of wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information. He has denied any wrongdoing.

“We’re going to fight this tooth and nail, stand up for whistleblowers everywhere,” Haim said in June.

Although Haim worked in the Dallas area at the time the charges were brought against him, he had worked at Texas Children’s Hospital during his residency.

According to the indictment, Haim requested to reactivate his login at the Children’s Hospital in April 2023, after which he accessed data on pediatric patients. He then distributed the contents to an independent journalist named Christopher Rufo, who is based in Washington State.

Haim does not dispute accessing and giving the information to Rufo, who then published a story accusing the hospital of secretly rendering transgender-related procedures for minors.

The hospital had announced in 2022 that it would stop giving transgender procedures, and a ban went into effect in Texas in September 2023.

Haim was out on bond when his case was dismissed. If convicted, he faced up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Dusty Deevers, an Oklahoma state senator, introduced on Friday the Eithan Haim Act, Senate Bill 571.
“The bill would establish that the federal government is prohibited from violating the 1st, 2nd, or 4th amendment rights of Oklahomans or cracking down on whistleblowers who lawfully expose illegal conduct,” Deevers wrote in a post on X.

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This is huge to me as a former Fed that saw the whistleblower program as a ridiculous scam. Perhaps under Trump, the whistleblower program within the federal government will finally be what it was proposed to be from its inception. What it actually was for many years was a form of damage control to protect executive employees and eventually attack the whistleblower in some fashion. I had personal knowledge of cases within my agency where the whistleblower was treated horribly for simply being honest and acting in the best interests of the American public. What I witnessed was egregious enough that I told our regional law enforcement specialist that I had no faith in the program and that I would NEVER utilize it unless lives were at stake.

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who exposed illegal gender transition surgeries on minors

The fact that surgeons are doing this to minors, any minors, is an abomination. Such monsters deserve to be in prison.

They're mutilating children for the sake of profit. Mengela would be proud.

Stories like this illustrate just how far down this country went. President Trump took office just in time.

I’m not going to hold my breath hoping to see what should be the outcome of this tragedy. For starters Haim should have every penny of his attorney bills paid. Any hospital employee that is culpable in this matter should lose any professional health related license forever and be prosecuted. The same should go for any federal employee that was involved in this witch hunt. Did I leave anything out?

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Did I leave anything out?

IMO, the parents who allow, nay, encourage this insanity should themselves be prosecuted for child endangerment and abuse.

Heck, when I was in grammar school, I wanted to be Superman. Didn't mean daddy took me to a roof and threw me off. What these parents are doing today is worse than that.

I'd like to see state charges against the hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, etc. who mutilated children after the 2023 Texas law went into effect. Ken Paxton's AG's office has directly gone after 3 doctors at a different hospital so they have a track record for doing it.

I Googled and found some immediate headlines for Texas' AG's office launching an investigation, but only 1 news story since last August which was a judge's ruling on AG offices' request for records.

I believe we will see a large number of young people who were coerced into this "trans" bullshit, "de-transitioning" and they are going to need a lot of help.

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I believe we will see a large number of young people who were coerced into this "trans" bullshit, "de-transitioning" and they are going to need a lot of help.

There are a lot of them. It’s a large and growing movement, and the stories are heart breaking, especially the ones who’ve had multiple surgeries before realizing it doesn’t actually make them the other sex and wish they could undo it all. These people are mentally ill and being preyed upon. Some day, this will rightfully be viewed as barbarity by society as a whole, not just half of us.

I’m glad the charges got dropped, but there’s some glaring omissions in the article. The BIDEN DOJ brought the charges and the TRUMP DOJ is dismissing them. Do anything but give credit where it’s due, I suppose. The man did the right thing, and whoever decided he needs to be punished for that needs to be stocking grocery store shelves or changing tires, not prosecuting people.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
This is huge to me as a former Fed that saw the whistleblower program as a ridiculous scam. Perhaps under Trump, the whistleblower program within the federal government will finally be what it was proposed to be from its inception. What it actually was for many years was a form of damage control to protect executive employees and eventually attack the whistleblower in some fashion. I had personal knowledge of cases within my agency where the whistleblower was treated horribly for simply being honest and acting in the best interests of the American public. What I witnessed was egregious enough that I told our regional law enforcement specialist that I had no faith in the program and that I would NEVER utilize it unless lives were at stake.

Trust me, your perceptions are 100% spot on. I left ATF as a whistleblower and they absolutely did everything they could to make my life miserable on the way out, and even after I left. The matter is working its way through court now which is a whole other abomination, but I take great pleasure that the people that I made complaints against are being seen for the problems that they were. I especially love the fact that at one of my hearings, the main person that I made complaints against refused to testify. He literally retired effective the date of the hearing, knowing that that late in the game I could not compel his testimony for that particular hearing. He knew I had the goods and corroborating evidence and testimony against him. If he told the truth, he outed himself and made my case, but if he lied then my witnesses and evidence proved that he was a liar and just perjured himself. Even though I’ve yet to recover any of the money that I’ve spent on this case, that moral victory was an especially sweet one.

My qualm is why did he share the records with a reporter? Did he just share that procedures were done, or did he identify the patients to the reporter?

They were conducting the illegal sterilization of children.

I assume there is some kind of oversight of the medical profession in Texas.

Did he report them to him?

Were they unresponsive? Is there not an appropriate place to report such mutilations?

This is a significant victory, but this case also shows how whistleblowers exposing illegal practices can face serious challenges, and how essential it is to have legal protection. As mentioned on this page , legal support is important to ensure your rights are protected, and the truth is safely brought to light.

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The whole trans scam has to have been a government psyop by freaks that weaseled their way in charge. I'd bet the farm it was foreign actors that financed whatever it took to do it as a part of destroying our society.

Programming extremely impressionable children to question their gender and sexual identity. Use TickToxic to spread the malady and make it mainstream. Make them covet being a part of the in crowd big thing.