A Texas doctor, who could face up to 10 years in prison for revealing that Texas Children's Hospital was allegedly conducting transgender procedures on minors in secret, has accused the U.S. Department of Justice of defying President Donald Trump's executive order by continuing his prosecution.
Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, issued a lengthy, defiant statement Wednesday on X, explaining he could "no longer afford to stay silent." His post received 1 million views as of Thursday afternoon.
"I am scheduled to go to trial in a few weeks in a place which has up until this point been nothing less than a kangaroo court. All of the most basic rules have been violated in favor of a corrupted DOJ and all of it has come at the cost of my constitutional rights," Haim wrote.
Haim dismissed the charges against him as "utter fabrications" and "crimes which they have not defined, which they have shown us no evidence of, which no one knows the basis for, and are completely unprecedented in American history."
Last June, the DOJ slapped Haim with four felony counts, alleging he "obtained personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children's Hospital's electronic system without authorization," according to a DOJ press release.
Haim, who is now a general surgeon in the Dallas area, went public after leaking documents to journalist Christopher Rufo from the Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital, where he completed his surgical residency.
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