President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to drop charges Friday against a Texas doctor who blew the whistle on sex change procedures for minors.
Former President Joe Biden’s DOJ charged Dr. Eithan Haim with violating medical privacy law by leaking records to the press showing that Texas Children’s Hospital was giving the procedures to kids despite announcing it had stopped. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said he had personally urged the Trump administration to stop the case Friday, shortly before the DOJ’s court filing.
“I have spoken today with Trump DOJ leadership & strongly urged them to immediately stop the Biden Admin’s malicious prosecution of @EithanHaim, the brave whistleblower who exposed illegal gender transition surgeries on minors in Texas,” Hawley said on X. “He should be thanked, not prosecuted.”
Judge David Hittner granted the motion and dismissed the case “with prejudice,” meaning no one can bring the case against Haim again.
Haim, who was scheduled to go to trial in February, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that doctors like him should not face charges for the sake of “the political interests of major hospital systems” in a phone interview Thursday.
“What they want to do is bleed us dry in order to get me to plead to some bullshit fucking agreement, which I’m definitely not going to do,” Haim told the DCNF. “If they get me to do that, all of this goes away and it legitimizes their corruption.”
Biden’s DOJ charged the Houston-based surgeon last May under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, alleging he illegally disclosed private information of children getting sex change appointments by leaking the data to journalist Chris Rufo. He would have faced up to 10 years in prison and possible fines if convicted.
The prosecution drew widespread scrutiny as conservatives called it a move to twist the law and silence dissent on life-altering hormone procedures and surgeries, which Texas has since banned for minors.
Haim celebrated the news of the dropped charges on X, saying, “We won!”
Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas put out a post calling the dismissal “another great move” by the new Trump administration.
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