By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter
The impartial now not too long ago exonerated surgeon who potentially confronted a decade in prison for exposing secret transgender procedures being performed on minors at Texas Kids’s Neatly being heart impartial now not too long ago spoke to journalist Catherine Herridge about his ordeal with the federal government beneath former President Joe Biden.
Talking to Herridge in an queer half of-hour interview posted to X on Monday, Dr. Eithan Haim and his wife, Andrea, recounted some of their darkest moments since agents with Biden’s Department of Neatly being and Human Products and services showed up at his door in June 2023 to recount him that he changed into the goal of a federal investigation.
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) February 24, 2025BREAKING: Doctor Centered by Biden DOJ After Blowing The Whistle on ‘Gender-Keeping’ Care For Minors at Texas Kids’s Neatly being heart Breaks Silence After All Payments Dropped; Calls on Trump Administration/DOJ to Investigate His Case
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With the aid of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and others, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to brush off the case against Haim on Jan. 24, with regards to two years later.
Haim told The Christian Post final month that Hawley had prolonged an invitation for him to aid as his customer of honor at President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on March 4.
Herridge went by the specifics of what Haim confronted, which incorporated a decade in penal advanced and up to $250,000 in fines for leaking documents to journalist Christopher F. Rufo in 2023.
The documents showed that the Houston-essentially essentially based Texas Kids’s Neatly being heart, the keep aside Haim served his residency, changed into persevering with to accept as true with so-known as “gender-placing forward services” on minors no matter telling the final public it had paused such procedures.
The inner documents Haim leaked had redacted in my opinion identifiable patient records, however Herridge popular that the DOJ recognized the minor patients by their initials, which Haim asserted changed into a precise violation of patient privateness.
“There is a solid argument to be made that it changed into the DOJ who changed into violating the patient’s privateness, in consequence of I by no come released patient records. It changed into the Department of Justice that released the patient’s initials,” he said.
Herridge and the Haims also seen that the portion of the U.S. Code that the DOJ accused Haim of violating doesn’t exist.
“Or now not it’s a typo,” Andrea said. “This is now not a typo of ‘their’ versus ‘they’re’ or one thing admire that. Right here’s the operative language of their indictment, the name of the statute that they’re charging with.”
Herridge added that she thinks “quite lots of folks are going to be pressured that you just’ve got got bought a Justice Department indictment, federal felony prices, and it cites a regulations that doesn’t exist.”
Haim popular how the federal government time and all but again ruined some of an crucial days of his existence by their prosecution, much like ready till the day of his residency graduation to ship their goal letter, or stressful he be in courtroom the day after his daughter changed into born.
He choked up remembering his daughter’s delivery and the plot narrowly he shunned being taken from her.
“But then especially, to accept as true with my child born, to transfer journey [the] next day and proper behold these folk lie, impartial? And correct behold the desire settle for it. What extra or less country is that this, impartial? What extra or less country are we handing over to our kids?”
Haim also said he changed into especially frustrated when the desire threatened to slap him with a gag recount after he posted about his case on X.
“That changed into, by far, essentially the most painful phase of this case, in consequence of what I changed into simply talking about changed into public motions. So every level I made on X and in these interviews changed into already made by my attorneys.”
Haim, who’s 34, said his ordeal “from the very beginning to the very terminate” rendered The US unrecognizable to him, while inflicting him to effort that the country of his youth is long past.
“I accept as true with admire it’s now not the country that I grew up in,” he said. “And, , perchance there accept as true with been complications support then, however I accept as true with admire issues had been varied. Having our first daughter in the midst of all this correct made it that much extra crucial, in consequence of right here is the country we now accept as true with got now. Or now not it’s unrecognizable, it’s unpleasant, however we are in a position to perchance stop one thing about that.”
Andrea, who serves as an assistant U.S. criminal skilled for the Northern District of Texas, echoed her husband.
“I took that oath as an assistant U.S. criminal skilled to uphold the Constitution, to admire the rights of defendants, to admire the First Amendment,” she said. “These items that we enjoy as sacred as Americans had been being weaponized against us.”
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Ship news guidelines to jon.brown@christianpost.com
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