Trump DOJ drops case against Texas doctor who blew whistle on transgender medicine for minors

The lawsuit against transgender medicine whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim was dismissed with prejudice connected Friday pursuing a months-long ineligible battle. 

"The United States has yet agreed to driblet the lawsuit against Dr. Haim, and the Court conscionable granted dismissal," Marcella Burke, lawyer for Eithan Haim, told Fox News Digital. "The lawsuit has been dismissed with prejudice truthful that the national authorities tin ne'er again travel aft him for blowing the whistle connected the concealed pediatric transgender programme astatine Texas Children’s Hospital." 

Haim was the taxable of an ongoing transgression case brought by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) aft helium leaked documents to the media that revealed Texas Children's Hospital successful Houston was performing transgender aesculapian procedures connected minors done May 2023. Hospital enactment had announced it had stopped providing sex-change surgeries and puberty blockers the twelvemonth before, aft Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled it constituted kid maltreatment nether authorities law.

Eithan Haim was a nonmigratory astatine the Baylor College of Medicine from June 2018 to June 2023, wherever helium worked astatine Texas Children's Hospital.  (Eithan Haim)

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The court's ruling "fully vindicates Dr. Haim," Burke said. "We convey everyone who helped on the mode to bring this monolithic injustice to light, and we are grateful to unafraid this triumph connected behalf of our client."

"The combat against the evils helium exposed continues, but this dismissal represents a repudiation of the weaponization of national instrumentality enforcement and the archetypal measurement successful accountability for the misdeeds we person each witnessed successful this case."

The dismissal reportedly came aft Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., spoke with Trump DOJ enactment astir the case, urging them "to instantly halt the Biden Admin’s malicious prosecution" of Haim, "the brave whistleblower who exposed amerciable sex modulation surgeries connected minors successful Texas," Hawley wrote connected X. "He should beryllium thanked, not prosecuted."

"Following my telephone this morning, I americium delighted to study the Trump DOJ is present moving to DISMISS this illegitimate prosecution," Hawley announced connected X a fewer hours later. 

Dr. Eithan Haim claimed the infirmary was secretly continuing with gender-affirming attraction procedures contempt claiming the programme would beryllium dissolved. (The Ingraham Angle/Screengrab)

Haim was a nonmigratory astatine the Baylor College of Medicine from June 2018 to June 2023 and worked astatine Texas Children's Hospital during portion of his residency. In a piece published successful the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, Haim claimed that 3 days aft the announcement that transgender aesculapian procedures had stopped, a surgeon implanted a hormone instrumentality successful an 11-year-old miss who was experiencing sex dysphoria. Then, implicit the people of the adjacent year, Haim said aggregate colleagues told him they were implanting puberty-blocking devices successful transgender-identifying minors. 

DOJ prosecutors alleged that the aesculapian records Haim sent to City Journal's Chris Rufo were published with children's names, but Haim's lawyers assertion each diligent accusation was redacted. The DOJ indicted Haim connected charges that helium violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects patients' wellness accusation and gives them rights implicit their wellness records.

Notably, HIPAA regulations licence the disclosure of protected accusation to halt egregious aesculapian misconduct. Haim said his woman spent implicit $200,000 warring the DOJ. 

Between the archetypal May 29 indictment to the 2nd indictment connected October 10, the DOJ changed immoderate of its language, removing immoderate notation of "HIPAA protected" accusation and changed the victims of the alleged harm caused by Haim's actions from "TCH's physicians and patients" to "TCH and its physicians."

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Eithan Haim's lawyers said the dismissal afloat vindicates him.  (Eithan Haim)

Fox News Digital previously reported successful December that the authoritative starring the complaint against Haim had been recused from the lawsuit aft accusation revealed a large struggle of involvement regarding her family's engagement successful the infirmary system.

Additionally, according to lawyers connected the lawsuit and tribunal documents reviewed by Fox News Digital, the DOJ was successful possession of accusation that disproved the HIPAA violations from the start. 

The DOJ primitively claimed that Haim did not supply attraction to TCH patients aft 2021, which was utilized arsenic the ground for its claims that Haim had nary crushed to entree diligent records, but the unsealed documents disprove this claim, according to Haim's lawyers. 

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Fox News' Nikolas Lanum and Nate Foy contributed to this report.