The case against transgender medical whistleblower Dr. Ethan Haim with prejudice was dismissed Friday after a months-long legal battle.
“The United States has finally agreed to drop the case against Dr. Haim, and the court has just granted dismissal,” said Marcella Burke, Ethan Haim's attorney. Fox News Digital. “The case was dismissed with prejudice so that the federal government could not come again to blow up the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children's Hospital.”
Heim was a topic A criminal case is ongoing Filed by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) after documents were leaked to the media that revealed Texas Children's Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors until May 2023. Hospital leadership had announced it had stopped the previous year, after the attorney general ruled In Texas Ken Paxton it constitutes child abuse under state law.
Ethan Haim was a resident at Baylor College of Medicine from June 2018 to June 2023, where he worked at Texas Children's Hospital. (Ethan Haim)
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Burke said the court's ruling “fully vindicates Dr. Haim.” “We thank everyone who helped along the way to bring this massive injustice to light, and we are grateful to have secured this victory on behalf of our client.”
“The fight against the evils he exposed continues, but this dismissal represents a disavowal of federal law enforcement and the first step in accountability for the actions we all witnessed in this case.”
The firing reportedly came after Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mad., spoke with Trump's Justice Department leadership about the case, urging them to “immediately stop” Biden's mistrial of Haim, “the whistleblower encouraged minors in Texas,” Hawley wrote on X. “He should be thanked, not judged.”
“After my call this morning, I am pleased to report that the Trump Department of Justice has now moved to dismiss this unlawful claim,” Hawley said. Advertise on x After a few hours.
Dr. Ethan Haim claimed that the hospital is secretly continuing with gender-affirming care procedures despite claiming that the program will be disbanded. (Ingraham Angle/ScreenScreen)
Haim was a resident at Baylor College of Medicine from June 2018 to June 2023 and worked at Texas Children's Hospital during part of his residency. In a piece Published In the Journal of the City of the Manhattan Institute, Haim claimed that three days after it was announced that transgender medical procedures were being discontinued, a surgeon implanted a hormone device in an 11-year-old girl who was suffering from gender dysphoria. Then, over the next year, Haim said several colleagues told him they were implanting puberty-blocking devices in minors for gender identification.
Justice Department prosecutors have alleged that medical records Haim sent to City Journal's Chris Rufo were posted with the children's names, but Haim's lawyers claim all patient information was redacted. The Department of Justice charged HAIM with violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects patients' health information and gives them rights over their health records.
Notably, HIPAA regulations allow the disclosure of protected information to stop egregious medical misconduct. Haim said his wife spent more than $200,000 fighting the Justice Department.
Between the original indictment on May 29 to the second indictment on October 10, the Justice Department changed some of its language, removing any mention of “HIPAA protected” information and non-victims of the alleged harm caused by Haim’s actions from “TCH doctors and patients.” To “tch and her doctors.”
Ethan Haim's lawyers said the dismissal was fully justified. (Ethan Haim)
Fox News Digital I mentioned previously In December, the prosecutor leading the charge against Haim was removed from the case after information revealed a significant conflict of interest regarding her family's involvement in the hospital system.
Additionally, according to attorneys on the case and a court case reviewed by Fox News Digital, the Department of Justice was in possession of information that refuted HIPAA violations from the beginning.
The DOJ originally claimed that Haim did not provide care to TCH patients after 2021, which was used as a basis for its claims that Haim had no reason to access patient records, but the unknown documents Refute this claimaccording to Haim's lawyer.
Fox News' Nicholas Lannom and Nate Foy contributed.
