The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed the four-count indictment against a doctor who blew the whistle on the largest pediatric hospital in the U.S. for allegedly prescribing puberty blockers to minors despite claiming otherwise.
Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, a surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, was slapped with four felony counts earlier this month after he “obtained personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) electronic system without authorization,” according to a DOJ press release.
Haim reportedly leaked such records to journalist Christopher Rufo last year because they exposed the “gender-affirming services” allegedly still being performed on minors at the hospital at the time, even though the hospital told the public it had paused such procedures.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had earlier released a formal opinion in February 2022 that labeled some sex-change procedures and the use of puberty blockers as “child abuse” under Texas law, after which Gov. Greg Abbott issued an order instructing state agencies to investigate them as such.
Haim told The Christian Post, speaking of the DOJ, “These people are corrupt,” …if we were to collude with them, we would be sanctioning our own destruction.”