The Texas Children’s Hospital scandal about transgender kids that just won’t die

Jul 2, 2024 by Jill

by Kurt Mahlburg, Mercator:

As the Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) scandal continues to unfold, the panic on display from the powers that be is yet more evidence that we are living in a post-trans the kidsworld.

Biden’s Department of Justice hauled former TCH surgeon Dr Eithan Haim before the courts earlier this month. His crime? Exposing the hospital’s secret continuation of child “gender medicine” despite its own public denials — and despite a statewide ban on the practice.

A week ago, Dr Haim pleaded not guilty to a four-count indictment that held him in violation of HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). In layman’s terms, White House attack dogs have done an end-run around the hospital’s alleged criminal activities and are instead charging a brave whistleblower for accessing patient data under “false pretences”.

Although the trial is still underway, the prosecution’s case seems eminently shaky. As reported by City Journal, the outlet that published Dr Haim’s original scoop via its Contributing Editor Christopher Rufo:

According to a letter written by Haim’s lawyers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari admitted that she hadn’t reviewed the purported evidence against Haim and was instead relying on what FBI agents told her. In the same discussion, Ansari insisted that the documents Haim sent to Rufo included children’s names, but nothing in the documents Rufo saw identified any individuals. All were redacted. The prosecutor then asked Haim to admit wrongdoing, telling him that he should apologize to the families of the children who received transgender medical interventions at TCH if he wanted her to help him avoid a felony prosecution. When this tactic failed, Ansari intimated that the families would sue if she didn’t bring criminal charges.

Talk about desperate. HIPAA was designed to keep people’s medical information private. How can Dr Haim be in violation of that Act if the documents he leaked don’t identify anyone, but merely reveal that certain treatments are taking place at the clinic?

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