A decide dismissed the case towards the Texas physician who was going through a number of felony prices after exposing the biggest pediatric hospital within the U.S. for persevering with transgender procedures on minors regardless of claiming in any other case.
Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, was probably going through a decade in jail and as much as $250,000 in fines after leaking paperwork to journalist Christopher Rufo in 2023 from the Houston-based Texas Youngsters’s Hospital (TCH), the place he accomplished his surgical residency.
Haim revealed in a Friday X submit that U.S. District Court docket Decide David Hittner had dismissed that case towards him with prejudice. Jennifer Lowery, the performing U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of Texas, had earlier moved to dismiss the case within the wake of President Donald Trump issuing an government order earlier this week demanding an finish to the political weaponization of the federal authorities.
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WE DID IT!!!! WE WON!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/M1iT2PeutM
— Eithan Haim MD (@EithanHaim) January 24, 2025
The dismissal marks the top of a year-and-a-half-long authorized battle that started after Haim leaked inner paperwork to journalist Christopher Rufo displaying that Texas Youngsters’s Hospital was persevering with to carry out transgender procedures on minors, regardless of telling the general public in any other case.
Inside 24 hours of Rufo’s story breaking in Might 2023, the Texas state Legislature handed SB-14, which rendered such procedures for minors unlawful within the state efficient Sept. 1 of that yr.
The case towards Haim was dismissed two days after he issued a prolonged assertion on X accusing the U.S. Division of Justice of defying Trump’s current government order. It additionally broke hours after Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., personally urged the Trump administration to halt Haim’s prosecution.
“I’ve spoken immediately with Trump DOJ management & strongly urged them to instantly cease the Biden Admin’s malicious prosecution of [Haim], the courageous whistleblower who uncovered unlawful gender transition surgical procedures on minors in Texas. He needs to be thanked, not prosecuted,” Hawley tweeted.
Haim’s spouse, Andrea Haim, additionally posted on X in celebration of her household’s authorized victory.
“When this case began a yr and a half in the past, Texas Youngsters’s Hospital was mutilating and sterilizing younger youngsters whereas hiding it from the general public,” she wrote. “Actually a whole lot of individuals knew it was occurring. Some even thought it was incorrect, however had been so morally weak that they carried out the surgical procedures anyway.”
????CASE AGAINST DR. EITHAN HAIM DISMISSED! When this case began a yr and a half in the past, Texas Youngsters’s Hospital was mutilating and sterilizing younger youngsters whereas hiding it from the general public.
Actually a whole lot of individuals knew it was occurring. Some even thought it was incorrect,… pic.twitter.com/rpDZXb0MP5
— Andrea Haim (@AndreaCohenHaim) January 24, 2025
She stated her husband “was the one particular person with the braveness to face up for what was proper,” including, “For him, it wasn’t even a choice. Youngsters had been being harmed, and he needed to cease it.”
Andrea posted a photograph of Eithan and their new child daughter, noting they had been celebrating on the identical porch the place, in June 2023, two brokers with Biden’s Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) Workplace of Inspector Basic confirmed up on the evening of Eithan’s residency commencement.
“Right this moment is for celebrating, tomorrow is for accountability,” she added.
Throughout an interview final January with The Christian Publish, Haim recounted the “terrifying” evening that HHS brokers below Biden inquired about “medical information” and knowledgeable him he was a “potential goal” in an unspecified legal investigation.
Haim, who had not but gone public, speculated that the federal company had discovered of his identification lengthy earlier than, however had waited to point out up in a vindictive try and wreck probably the most essential days of his life.
“These persons are corrupt,” Haim informed CP on the time. “And the one strategy to expose it’s to not play into this Kabuki theater, like these persons are practitioners of justice. As a result of if we had been to collude with them, we might be sanctioning our personal destruction.”
Haim’s authorized protection fund raised greater than $1.2 million, although his authorized charges stay appreciable, in keeping with two educated sources who spoke to CP.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Publish. Ship information tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
