Judge Dismisses Charges Against Surgeon Targeted for Exposing Child Sex Changes After Trump Moves to Drop Them
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Judge Dismisses Charges Against Surgeon Targeted for Exposing Child Sex Changes After Trump Moves to Drop Them

A judge reportedly dismissed Friday the charges against Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon indicted by the Biden-Harris administration after he blew the whistle on sex-change procedures for minors. Haim initially came forward as an anonymous whistleblower to expose gender treatments being performed on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He was facing four felony counts of violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA, according to journalist Chris Rufo, who first reported on Haim’s story. On Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Pearson moved to dismiss the indictment with prejudice. The judge reportedly signed the order, according to The Daily Wire’s Brent Scher. Haim confirmed the news by posting the judge’s order of dismissal on X. WE DID IT!!!! WE WON!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/M1iT2PeutM— Eithan Haim MD (@EithanHaim) January 24, 2025 This move aligns with President Donald Trump’s promise to end the weaponization of the Department of Justice. On Monday, he pardoned the Jan. 6 protest prisoners and on Thursday, he pardoned the pro-lifers convicted for violating the FACE Act. Haim said that if the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice against him was successful, it would “destroy the profession of medicine.” “What they’re criminalizing is not a technicality, because what I did is not technically illegal,” he told The Daily Signal. “What they’re criminalizing is good physician behavior, safe physician behavior.” Haim said he and his wife are already in a million dollars of debt and continuing to fight the charges would have likely cost a million more. A GiveSendGo fundraising campaign for Haim has raised $1.2 million. “That’s the situation that the government is putting us in,” he said. “They’re bleeding us dry as we speak.” Haim was a resident at the Baylor College of Medicine from June 2018 to June 2023. He worked at Texas Children’s Hospital during part of his residency. Texas Children’s Hospital had 30 child gender-transition patients before Texas passed a law prohibiting doctors from performing transgender medical interventions on minors, according to medical watchdog Do No Harm’s database. Haim told Rufo that a surgeon implanted a hormone device in an 11-year-old girl who said she identified as a boy three days after the announcement that the hospital had ceased to perform transgender medical procedures. Multiple colleagues told Haim over the next year they were implanting puberty-blocking devices in minors.  After revealing this information, two federal agents with the Department of Health and Human Services showed up on Haim’s door, saying the documents he sent to Rufo were published with children’s names, violating HIPAA. But Haim’s lawyers say all patient information was redacted and that HIPAA regulations allow protected information to be disclosed to “prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to a person or the public.” “Their interpretation of HIPAA grants hospitals the authority to determine who is in and is out of compliance with federal law,” Haim told The Daily Signal. The post Judge Dismisses Charges Against Surgeon Targeted for Exposing Child Sex Changes After Trump Moves to Drop Them appeared first on The Daily Signal.