The just lately exonerated surgeon who doubtlessly confronted a decade in jail for exposing secret transgender procedures being carried out on minors at Texas Kids’s Hospital just lately spoke to journalist Catherine Herridge about his ordeal with the federal authorities below former President Joe Biden.
Chatting with Herridge in an unique half-hour interview posted to X on Monday, Dr. Eithan Haim and his spouse, Andrea, recounted a few of their darkest moments since brokers with Biden’s Division of Well being and Human Providers confirmed up at his door in June 2023 to tell him that he was the goal of a federal investigation.
BREAKING: Physician Focused by Biden DOJ After Blowing The Whistle on ‘Gender-Affirming’ Care For Minors at Texas Kids’s Hospital Breaks Silence After All Expenses Dropped; Calls on Trump Administration/DOJ to Examine His Case
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— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) February 24, 2025
With the assistance of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and others, the U.S. Division of Justice moved to dismiss the case in opposition to Haim on Jan. 24, practically two years later.
Haim instructed The Christian Submit final month that Hawley had prolonged an invite for him to attend as his visitor of honor at President Donald Trump’s deal with to a joint session of Congress on March 4.
Herridge went by means of the specifics of what Haim confronted, which included a decade in jail and as much as $250,000 in fines for leaking paperwork to journalist Christopher F. Rufo in 2023.
The paperwork confirmed that the Houston-based Texas Kids’s Hospital, the place Haim served his residency, was persevering with to carry out so-called “gender-affirming companies” on minors regardless of telling the general public it had paused such procedures.
The inner paperwork Haim leaked had redacted personally identifiable affected person data, however Herridge famous that the DOJ recognized the minor sufferers by their initials, which Haim asserted was a real violation of affected person privateness.
“There is a robust argument to be made that it was the DOJ who was violating the affected person’s privateness, as a result of I by no means launched affected person data. It was the Division of Justice that launched the affected person’s initials,” he stated.
Herridge and the Haims additionally noticed that the portion of the U.S. Code that the DOJ accused Haim of violating doesn’t exist.
“It is a typo,” Andrea stated. “This is not a typo of ‘their’ versus ‘they’re’ or one thing like that. That is the operative language of their indictment, the identify of the statute that they are charging with.”
Herridge added that she thinks “lots of people are going to be confused that you’ve a Justice Division indictment, federal felony fees, and it cites a legislation that doesn’t exist.”
Haim famous how the federal government repeatedly ruined among the most necessary days of his life by their prosecution, comparable to ready till the day of his residency commencement to ship their goal letter, or demanding he be in courtroom the day after his daughter was born.
He choked up remembering his daughter’s start and the way narrowly he prevented being taken from her.
“However then particularly, to have my child born, to go journey [the] subsequent day and simply see these individuals lie, proper? And simply see the choose settle for it. What sort of nation is that this, proper? What sort of nation are we delivering to our children?”
Haim additionally stated he was particularly annoyed when the choose threatened to slap him with a gag order after he posted about his case on X.
“That was, by far, probably the most painful a part of this case, as a result of what I used to be merely speaking about was public motions. So each level I made on X and in these interviews was already made by my attorneys.”
Haim, who’s 34, stated his ordeal “from the very starting to the very finish” rendered America unrecognizable to him, whereas inflicting him to concern that the nation of his youth is gone.
“I really feel prefer it’s not the nation that I grew up in,” he stated. “And, , possibly there have been issues again then, however I really feel like issues have been totally different. Having our first daughter in the course of all this simply made it that rather more necessary, as a result of that is the nation we now have now. It is unrecognizable, it is terrible, however we are able to possibly do one thing about that.”
Andrea, who serves as an assistant U.S. legal professional for the Northern District of Texas, echoed her husband.
“I took that oath as an assistant U.S. legal professional to uphold the Structure, to respect the rights of defendants, to respect the First Modification,” she stated. “These items that we maintain as sacred as People have been being weaponized in opposition to us.”
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Submit. Ship information tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
