Lawfare Against Doc Who Exposed Child Trans Procedures Ends

A judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s case against a doctor who uncovered secret transgender procedures on kids, assenting to a motion from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice.

U.S. District Judge David Hittner dismissed the partisan lawfare today against doctor Eithan Haim, who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) for performing hidden transgender interventions on children.

Biden’s DOJ had been prosecuting the doctor, but Trump’s DOJ moved to dismiss the case today, as reported by Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who broke the original story. The acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas asked to dismiss the “Second Superseding Indictment and all open counts … with prejudice,” according to the motion. 

On Friday morning, The Federalist published an article in which Haim said he was expecting potential jail time soon. The same day, a source close to the case — who wished to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation — said the judge was going to require Haim to enter a plea deal by 9 a.m. on Monday or go to jail. 

Haim, a Dallas-area doctor, revealed in 2023 that TCH was performing transgender procedures on kids as young as 11. TCH lied about no longer providing the procedures, which Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had classified as “child abuse” by that point. Texas has since banned gender mutilation of children.

Former President Joe Biden’s DOJ then engaged in extensive lawfare against Haim, seeking to imprison him for up to 10 years, as The Federalist previously reported. After Trump’s order banning “weaponization” of the federal government, left-wing prosecutors accelerated their case. 

Activists like Rufo and Chaya Raichik — of Libs of TikTok — have recently been raising awareness about Haim’s situation, imploring Trump to intervene. Just hours after The Federalist covered the case, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri posted that he had spoken with Trump’s DOJ leadership.

Hours later, Trump’s DOJ sought to dismiss the case, and the judge agreed. Haim’s wife, Andrea, celebrated the decision in a post on X and said the family’s struggles were worthwhile.

“We have had hundreds of sleepless nights worried that he would go to federal prison for 10 years. We are completely broke. He was forced to leave me and his newborn baby daughter in the hospital an hour after I had an emergency C-section to make a court appearance,” Haim wrote. “But if you ask either of us, we would do it again in a heartbeat. Because of Eithan, the world is a better place for children, including our daughter. There is no greater gift we can give her than the knowledge that her daddy is a hero.”