Doctor who blew whistle on Texas hospital providing gender-affirming care to kids charged with HIPAA violation by DOJ

A doctor is facing criminal charges from the Department of Justice after he blew the whistle on a Texas hospital allegedly performing gender-affirming care on minors.

Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who completed his residency at the Texas Children’s Hospital, was indicted on four counts of HIPAA violations.

Haim has vowed to fight the charges in court.

“They wanted to intimidate me into silence using every technique the federal leviathan had at their disposal. But they failed,” he tweeted on Thursday.

“The only way to lose is to submit to corruption. It’s time to fight back harder than ever!”

Haim is “anxious to get to trial to get his side of the story told. I am confident this will result in the correct decision being made,” his attorney, Marcella Burke, told The Post Friday evening.

Haim leaked documents to conservative journalist Christopher Rufo in 2023 that allegedly showed that Texas Children’s Hospital continued performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors in secret against state law. 

Rufo, who is also a Post columnist, emphasized at the time that none of the documents he received included the names of the patients.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion declaring gender-affirming care on minors as a form of child abuse in 2022. Weeks later, the hospital announced that it would stop the procedures.

Haim, however, alleges just three days after Texas Children’s Hospital’s announcement, they implanted a hormone device into an 11-year-old girl for gender dysmorphia, he wrote in an anonymous article published in the City Journal in January.

He claimed that over the next year, the hospital actually increased the frequency of procedures “and potentially hundreds more children received hormone interventions for gender dysphoria.”

After Rufo’s bombshell May 2023 report, the Texas legislature banned drug and surgical sex changes for kids.

The following month, on the day he was scheduled to graduate from his residency at Texas Children’s Hospital, authorities knocked on his door and handed him a letter identifying him as a “potential target” in a federal probe, Haim claims.

Haim is scheduled to appear in court on June 10.

Texas Children’s Hospital did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.