A doctor who blew the whistle on a Texas hospital that allegedly performed gender-reassignment procedures on minors is facing criminal charges from the Department of Justice.
Dr. Eisan Haim, a surgeon who completed his training at Texas Children’s Hospital, was indicted on four counts of violating HIPAA.
Haim has vowed to fight the charges in court.
“They tried to intimidate me into silence using every technique available to the titans of the Federation, but they failed,” he said. Tweet on Thursday.
“The only way we lose is to succumb to corruption. It’s time to fight back harder than ever!”
“Heim is eager to present his side of the story at trial and I am confident this will result in a just verdict,” his lawyer, Marcella Burke, told The Post on Friday night.
Heim Leaked Documents The report, sent to conservative journalist Christopher Ruffo in 2023, allegedly showed that Texas Children’s Hospital continued to secretly perform gender reassignment surgeries on minors in violation of state law.
Rufo, who is also a columnist for The Washington Post, stressed at the time that the documents he received did not include the names of any patients.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion in 2022 declaring gender reassignment surgery on minors a form of child abuse. Weeks later, hospitals announced they would stop performing the procedures.
But Haim wrote an anonymous piece just three days after the announcement by Texas Children’s Hospital alleging that the hospital implanted a hormone device in an 11-year-old girl to treat gender identity disorder. Published in City Journal in January.
He claimed that over the next year, the hospital actually increased the frequency of procedures, “potentially resulting in hundreds more children receiving hormonal intervention for gender dysphoria.”
Following Rufo’s explosive May 2023 report, the Texas Legislature Banned drugs and sex reassignment surgery For kids.
The following month, on the day he was scheduled to finish his internship at Texas Children’s Hospital, authorities came to his home and handed him a letter identifying him as a “potential target” of a federal investigation, Heim alleges.
Heim is scheduled to appear in court on June 10.
Texas Children’s Hospital did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
