The Justice Department appeared to contradict itself in its prosecution of the Texas Children’s whistleblower who exposed secret transgender procedures, according to the doctor’s legal team.
Dr. Eithan Haim revealed that Texas Children’s Hospital broke a promise to end its transgender program in a story published by City Journal last year. The DOJ charged Haim with four felony counts related to the leaking of patient records. However, legal documents reported on Monday by The Daily Wire revealed the DOJ may have conceded a core argument in the case.
The DOJ previously claimed in its lawsuit that Haim accessed and leaked patient records at the hospital after the conclusion of his surgical rotation in January 2021. Haim’s legal team said this argument was disproven by DOJ records released Friday, which revealed Haim worked at Texas Children’s nine times between January 20, 2021, and April 14, 2023.
“The entire premise of the government’s case has been that Dr. Haim was an interloper, falsely claiming responsibility for TCH patients to hide some nefarious and malicious reason for accessing TCH records,” the defense’s court filing reads, as reported by The Daily Wire.
“This rested on the foundational premise that Dr. Haim treated no patients at TCH after January 2021. But the government’s Friday the 13th disclosure has now blown apart this entire premise,” the filing continues.
Haim’s lawyer, Marcella Burke, said the court filings “blow apart” the DOJ’s case.
“The government...
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