When Dr. Eithan Haim blew the whistle on illegal sex-change procedures for minors at the Texas Children’s Hospital, the Biden administration weaponized the Justice Department to silence him, plunging Haim and his wife into than $1 million in debt.
By contrast, had Haim shed light on the gender transitions that violated Texas law under the Trump administration, the FBI would have thanked him for helping them protect kids.
President Joe Biden’s administration weaponized the Department of Justice and the FBI against whistleblowers such as Haim; David Daleiden, who exposed Planned Parenthood’s alleged trafficking of fetal tissue; Vanessa Sivadge, who accused Texas Children’s Hospital Medicaid of fraud by billing for trans procedures for minors; and the IRS’ Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden’s tax evasion.
The Trump administration moved to drop all charges against Haim and Daleiden, and promoted Shapley and Ziegler as senior advisers within the Treasury Department to “drive much-needed cultural reform within the IRS.”
The Trump administration not only has dropped the charges against whistleblowers targeted in the Biden-era, but it has made moves to make blowing the whistle easier.
The FBI announced a tip line to report instances of hospitals, clinics, or other practitioners performing gender transition surgeries on kids.
“Help the FBI protect children,” the bureau wrote on X. “As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care.”
The Department of Health and Human Services issued new guidance in April helping health care workers, clinic staff, and third parties file complaints against child sex-change providers.
“First, as explained further below, [the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996] does not prohibit the disclosure of information related to the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, provided certain conditions are met,” the guidance says. “Second, as explained further below, the law provides robust anti-retaliation protections for individuals who make a report in order to ensure compliance with the Executive Order.”
Trump signed an executive order Tuesday preventing the federal government from funding or supporting irreversible transgender medical interventions for minors.
These moves marked a dramatic departure from the treatment of some whistleblowers over the prior four years. Haim was indicted in May 2024 on four felony counts for allegedly accessing and sharing confidential patient records from Texas Children’s Hospital.
California prosecutors filed 15 felony charges against David Daleiden and a colleague, Sandra Merritt, for secretly recording Planned Parenthood officials.
Sivadge was fired from her nursing position for blowing the whistle, and FBI agents visited her home, she said.
Both Shapley and Ziegler were named in a lawsuit filed by Hunter Biden’s attorneys, alleging that they had made confidential tax information public in their testimonies.
Before charges were dropped against him, Haim told The Daily Signal that if the “weaponization” of the Department of Justice against him was successful, it would “destroy the profession of medicine.”
“What they’re criminalizing is not a technicality, because what I did is not technically illegal,” he told The Daily Signal. “What they’re criminalizing is good physician behavior, safe physician behavior.”
But thanks to the Trump administration, Haim thinks those fears won’t be realized anytime soon.
“We took on the most powerful federal leviathan in human history and won!” Haim said. “This is credit to the power of truth and justice being able to destroy lies and corruption.”
