A judge dismissed the case against the Texas doctor who was facing multiple felony charges after exposing the largest pediatric hospital in the U.S. for continuing transgender procedures on minors despite claiming otherwise.
Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, was potentially facing a decade in prison and up to $250,000 in fines after leaking documents to journalist Christopher Rufo in 2023 from the Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), where he completed his surgical residency.
Haim revealed in a Friday X post that U.S. District Court Judge David Hittner had dismissed that case against him with prejudice. Jennifer Lowery, the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, had earlier moved to dismiss the case in the wake of President Donald Trump issuing an executive order earlier this week demanding an end to the political weaponization of the federal government.
The dismissal marks the end of a year-and-a-half-long legal battle that began after Haim leaked internal documents to journalist Christopher Rufo showing that Texas Children's Hospital was continuing to perform transgender procedures on minors, despite telling the public otherwise.
Within 24 hours of Rufo's story breaking in May 2023, the Texas state Legislature passed SB-14, which rendered such procedures for minors illegal in the state effective Sept. 1 of that year.
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