Legal Team For Trans Surgery Whistleblower Rips Biden DOJ For Seeking Gag Order

The legal team for Dr. Ethan Haim, the doctor who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital in May 2023 — revealing that the facility had lied about ending its transgender medical program and was still performing attempted transition procedures on children as young as 11 — ripped the Biden Department of Justice for seeking a gag order targeting Haim in his legal case with the government.

Haim’s claims were originally published in an explosive story by journalist Christopher Rufo. In June 2023, Haim said he knew he was being targeted by the DOJ when federal agents visited his home; the DOJ  attempted to charge him with four felony counts of violating HIPAA. “The DOJ has based their case, in large part, on the claim that Haim had no reason to access Texas Children’s Hospital records after he finished a surgical rotation at the hospital in January 2021,” The Daily Wire reported.

“Today, @TheJusticeDept filed a reply supporting its motion for a gag order against our legal team and @EithanHaim,” The Burke Law Group, representing Haim, posted in a thread on X. “They dispute our charges of government misconduct, saying that we mischaracterize the facts. Yet much like previous censorship efforts by this administration, it is the federal government that is purveying misinformation, and it is all on the judicial record.”

“The government’s assertion that the prosecution is trying to ‘uphold the law’ rings hollow because it has not attempted to defend most of HIPAA, completely abandoning the Privacy Rule,” the thread continues. “The idea that the prosecutors are nobly doing so ‘in the face of constant public rhetoric’ demonstrates yet again that they believe they are entitled to prosecute @EithanHaim without public scrutiny of the immense power they wield.”

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“While the prosecution tries to make it sound like its gag order is reasonable, it would completely prevent Dr. Haim or his counsel from criticizing the prosecution, no matter how correct the criticism,” they state. ”The prosecution tries to make its case by painting Dr. Haim’s and the defense’s critical tweets as inaccurate. But as the defense already explained in its own filing, all of the public criticism has been richly deserved.”

“The government attempts to use safety concerns to shut down debate,” the law group declares. “It suggests that the ‘extreme rhetoric’ could harm the career public prosecutors and federal agents who put felons away for a living, even though they have received no threats. Yet the hypocrisy is worse than that. One X post the government complains about is a post by Dr. Haim calling the prosecutors modern day woke aristocrats. But the government omits the context—he was skewering them for the motion for the gag order because the government tried to justify the gag order due to ‘online bullying’ when the prosecution can send armed agents and strip someone of their rights by just an accusation.”

On November 24, Haim had written on X :

The DOJ’s justification for a gag order is that they are concerned with “online bullying.”  This perfectly encapsulates the defining feature of the modern day woke aristocrat.   They zealously deploy the threat or the outright use of state-sanctioned violence against those who challenge their political ideology yet cast themselves as the victim when regular citizens stand up, take notice, and utilize their first amendment right to criticize their tyrannical behavior.

These prosecutors have no qualms about sending me to prison for a decade. They have no problem inventing new crimes to do so.   They had no problem sending heavily armed US Marshals to my home at 7AM even though I am a law-abiding citizen with no criminal history.   They had no problem taking away my right to possess firearms knowing the legitimate death threats I would face from radical transgender activists.   And I don’t bring this up to garner sympathy for myself but rather to demonstrate the magnitude of their hypocrisy.   They have no problem with any of the above, but they have a major problem with anyone noticing it happening.   Their corrupt gambit relies on the silence of their target to legitimize their corruption. In my case, they knocked on the wrong door. I simply refuse to voluntarily comply with my own destruction.

The DOJ's justification for a gag order is that they are concerned with "online bullying."

This perfectly encapsulates the defining feature of the modern day woke aristocrat.

They zealously deploy the threat or the outright use of state-sanctioned violence against those who… pic.twitter.com/vqQZVm7wAo

— Eithan Haim MD (@EithanHaim) November 24, 2024

Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this article.

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