Rep. Roy demands answers from DOJ over prosecution of TX Children’s Hospital whistleblower

WASHINGTON, DC — Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) called upon the Department of Justice to provide details of the prosecution of Texas Children's Hospital whistleblower, Dr. Eithan Haim.

Haim recently revealed that his employer, the Texas Children’s Hospital, was performing illegal “transgender medical interventions” on minors.

“This prosecution is just the latest example of how the Biden-Garland Justice Department is using the law to target ideological adversaries instead of equally enforcing the law,”Representative Roy pointed out in the letter to Garland.

On June 17, 2024, the Department unsealed a four-count indictment against Dr. Haim for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), even though he did not disclose patient charts or documents containing unredacted patient information.

“While Dr. Haim’s bravery to come forward led Texas to enact bipartisan legislation banning ‘transgender medical interventions’ for minors, the Department of Justice chose to prosecute Dr. Haim,” Representative Roy said.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a formal attorney general opinion in February 2022 finding that these procedures amounted to criminal child abuse, after which Texas Children’s Hospital announced in March 2022 that it would no longer perform these procedures on minors. Haim now faces up to 10 years in prison and fines totaling $250,000.

Read the full letter here.

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