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Eithan Haim: ‘We Took On the Federal Leviathan and We Won’
Dr. Eithan Haim poses for a portrait on September 26, 2024, in Houston. (Mark Felix for The Free Press)
The courageous Texas surgeon was facing a decade in federal prison for blowing the whistle about gender surgery for minors. Trump just dismissed the case.
By Emily Yoffe
01.25.25 — The Big Read
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Until Friday afternoon, Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, was facing a potential decade in federal prison for revealing publicly that Texas Children’s Hospital was continuing to perform gender transitions on children even after declaring a moratorium on the controversial practice. For this, Haim, a Texas surgeon, became the target of the Biden Department of Justice,…

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Emily Yoffe
Senior editor Emily Yoffe is a veteran journalist who has published widely on numerous topics. She was a contributing writer to The Atlantic, where she wrote about campus sexual assault, #MeToo and the need for due process for the accused. She was a longtime contributor to Slate, where she was their “Dear Prudence” columnist for 10 years.
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