Dr. Haim’s legal defense is a defense of the ability of medical professionals to tell the truth in the interest of children’s health, especially when doing so is unpopular.
What Dr. Haim is doing is very impressive. He could become the spokesperson for sanity in this area, and in many of the areas that medicine has been going wrong. I'd like to hear more from a man with his courage and integrity.
Country? Forget about country. Basic humanity. What happened? We can blame China or the now defunct USSR for introducing these ideas. But they didn’t force anyone to believe in said ideas. That’s what I don’t understand.
The Biden administration is completely captured. They don't care if their ideology is harming women and children. Biden has dismantled Title IX and hundreds of girls are being harmed. His support of genital mutilation is sickening. I can't imagine any former president even considering being perfectly fine with the healthy body parts of children being amputated. Dr. Haim has a conscience and truly believes 'First Do No Harm'. Biden and his DOJ have lost touch with reality and have no conscience left.
He put a trans activist in charge of HHS. It's going to take another several years for people to experience the damage first hand to roll the Democratic Party back on this. They're still behaving like the activist's lies are true.
Spread the word and spread the name. I get attacked on a daily basis, I'm censored into oblivion. My voice may not be reaching many anymore, but hopefully others can.
I appreciate Dr Haim for speaking truth to power and standing against medical malpractice. I want to contribute, but I need to understand more about the charges and laws that they apply to.
Jorge - A quick Google search on Dr Haim and City Journal came up with a number of news articles. I haven't read through these two myself, but I thought they might give you what you're looking for. I hope this information saves people some time.
This sorry saga demonstrates yet again that the trans movement has little to do with science, and much to do with politics.
Scientific and medical data are only useful to the trans propagandists if they can be cherry-picked and deployed in support of their political agenda - which is compelling the rest of us to affirm the right of men masquerading as women to be allowed into any women’s spaces whenever they like. (So far as I can tell trans men in men’s spaces elicits utter indifference from almost everyone). Because it’s a totalitarian political ideology debate is a threat. Hence anything contrary to their political beliefs, or anyone supporting anything to the contrary, is either ignored, sidelined or suppressed.
The innate and immutable gender identity at the heart of trans dogma is proposed as overriding every other possible psychological component of the self. And for it to apply to adults wanting to get into ladies clothing and locker rooms it must also apply to children too. If it does not, then the adult position reverts to linguistic manipulation and a niche lifestyle choice. In effect children have become medical collateral damage in this particular political crusade.
What Dr Cass & colleagues have done is expose their evidence base to the same standard of scrutiny as every other evidence base in medicine, using a degree of rigour trans agitators are unaccustomed to bothering with. This is the kind of equality they don’t favour, because like all politicians they only spout the cherry-picked data that supports their agenda.
As your great social commentator Thomas Sowell has said “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.“
And nothing excites anger among the political Left more than perceived discrimination against one of their preferred minority victim groups. Which is why they have reacted so strongly to Dr Haim with a political weapon, and not a scientific one eg a rebuttal of Cass using their own rigorous meta analysis. Dr Haim’s treatment is a classic Stalinist show trial tactic - both punitive and deterrent.
"This sorry saga demonstrates yet again that the trans movement has little to do with science, and much to do with politics." -- I'd say it goes beyond politics to a faith-based religion.
Thank you for publishing this. If we all donate to Dr Haim and get others to do so this case will make a big impact You can donate as little as $5 and leave a comment on the funding page This is a way for us to get our voices heard .
I hate to say it, but Dr Haim is a goner. The unanimity of the Establishment powers arrayed against him is stunning. It's not just the Biden administration's DOJ, the Department of Education with Title IX, and Health and Human Services, which recently prevailed in court to compel West Virginia to cover sex change treatments under Medicaid.
Quite a few advocacy organizations once known for advancing gay and lesbian equality have metamorphosed into advocates of "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the discredited idea that gay people can be turned straight. Most prominent include ACLU, GLAAD, GLSEN, AND HRC. How much of a role the six figure donations from billionaire trans fetishists played in this betrayal of gay people is the obvious question.
The medical societies are reaffirming their long-standing statements supporting sex change procedures, They are steadfast in refusing to acknowledge the findings in the Cass Report and the rock solid evidence marshalled to support them.
Most surprising, perhaps, is the way some very prominent corporate law factories have supported the trans agenda. A well known Wall Street firm pro bono provided a team of eight lawyers to the so far successful attack on the Arkansas law restricting treatments. A similarly prominent Washington - Boston firm likewise assisted in the West Virginia Medicaid case. The Arkansas case is on appeal to the Court of Appeals.
The outlook is bleak, folks. Even if Dr Haim is acquitted, he'll be left penniless unless financial support in the seven figures is forthcoming. There are quite a few excellent law firms in Houston that would be a match for the legal talent coming after him, and I'd hope they have been hiring associates who escaped the postmodernist "Social Justice" indoctrination at so-called national law schools. Whether one of them could be recruited to provide pro bono representation is a question I have no idea as to the answer. Adding to the uncertainty is how the mainstream news media have kept a virtual blackout on the issues. For example, I don't think even now has NPR said one word in its news programming about the Cass Report or the administration's plans to abolish girl's athletic teams. Unless someone has some specific reason to pay attention to the controversy, they're likely in the dark. The administration, too, seems to be trying to fly under the public's radar, and the journalists are cooperating for the most part.
> Quite a few advocacy organizations once known for advancing gay and lesbian equality have metamorphosed into advocates of "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the discredited idea that gay people can be turned straight. Most prominent include ACLU, GLAAD, GLSEN, AND HRC.
Well, since "trans" is the logical consequence of "gay", this is not surprising.
> For example, I don't think even now has NPR said one word in its news programming about the Cass Report or the administration's plans to abolish girl's athletic teams.
Haim violated HIPAA by leaving in too much identifying information. I am for whistleblowing on this issue, but not at the expense of patient privacy. Also, Rufo is not to be trusted. He intentionally whips up “culture wars” issues and talks about this openly.
“Carmel Shachar, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, disagrees that the records leaked by Haim have been sufficiently de-identified to ensure compliance with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Shachar’s own work focuses on health policy and the law.
“The most commonly used way to ensure compliance is to remove certain identifiers, and there are 18 identifiers listed by the HHS, with the argument that once you remove all of those nobody would be able to re-identify your data,” Shachar explained. “The most prominent one here that I see [referring to the material leaked by Haim] is the date and time of appointment, which is one of the identifiers.”
The hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy… “All elements of dates (except year) for dates that are directly related to an individual, including birth date, admission date, discharge date, death date, and all ages over 89 and all elements of dates (including year) indicative of such age, except that such ages and elements may be aggregated into a single category of age 90 or older.”
Haim’s leaked records included the precise date and time of individual patient appointments for youth being treated for gender dysphoria at Texas Children’s.”
Also, Haim's attorney claims he is a "mandatory reporter of child abuse."
Mandatory reporters for medical abuse concerns are required to first go to the Texas Medical Board and not journalists. Reports for child abuse concerns are required to first go to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
From what I've seen from another source, he didn't redact properly, leaving in treatment dates as well as clear identifier that the data came from Texas Christian.
I've only been involved in a HIPPA related question once as a collaborater on a study where part of the data came from patient medical data. There was an experienced team that evaluated the de-identification of the data, and briefed all of us, making a big deal out of releasing to a public entity individual patient data was a no no.
I'm completely sympathetic to Haim's concerns about what was going on at the medical center hospital at which he was employed, as well as around the nation.
However, he is being charged with HIPPA violations. He forwarded to a journalist 4 redacted patient records. While redacted, putting patient records in the public sphere is a HIPPA violation.
He had other documented evidence of internal communication that would have shown what was going on, and would have not opened himself to thus level of legal entanglement. He could have also gone to his own state authorities. Texas is hardly sympathetic to what is going on in gender clinics.
So I'm sorry, while I'm against what is going on in gender clinics, I'm also completely on board with patient privacy and the HIPPA regulations that pertain. Doctors must do no harm. They also should respect HIPPA.
I can not lionize him.
This is not going to chill anything. People that want to blow whistles just need to be smart about it.
Your point is well taken. However, I think it's worth noting that "de-identified" health records are NOT covered by the HIPAA privacy rule, for the obvious reason that they do not identify a particular patient. I cannot say for sure whether Dr. Hain's records were sufficiently de-identified, but, if they were, then there was no HIPAA violation.
Yes!!! Support Dr. Haim. And support public detransitioners like me Chance @ detransjoy . You will find me loud and proud on IG, YT and X. I am currently experiencing much cyber attacks and also I am not even able to attend the Detrans Awareness day in DC this week!
You might well have provided the details of the “highly dubious felony charges.”
Specifically, the grand jury indictment alleges that Dr. Haim accessed the medical records of minor patients that were not under his care, and that he did so under false pretense (falsely claiming that he had an urgent need for access to the medical record system for adult patients under his care). This would be a clear violation of HIPAA, and a felony. There is nothing “dubious” about it.
Assuming of course that the charges are proven. But let us consider that Chris Rufo himself confirmed that Haim provided him with the medical records that he published. Unless Dr. Haim can credibly claim that these patients were under his care, there is a prima facie case against him. He has not made that claim.
The fact that identifying information was redacted is irrelevant to the indictment. It would be far worse if there were identifying information, but the key element of the crime
is that he accessed the records of patients not under his care.
You can support Dr. Haim because you choose to believe he is innocent of the charges. But that is yet to be determined. Or you can support Dr. Haim regardless of whether or not he is guilty of violating patient confidentiality.
For my part, I take the matter of patient confidentiality very seriously. Medical professionals, or indeed any other hospital employees, should be not be empowered to access the records of patients unless they are under their care, or they have a legitimate business reason to do so.
I wholeheartedly endorse Dr. Haim’s concerns about trans medicine. I cannot endorse violating medical confidentiality, regardless of those concerns.
What Dr. Haim is doing is very impressive. He could become the spokesperson for sanity in this area, and in many of the areas that medicine has been going wrong. I'd like to hear more from a man with his courage and integrity.
Is this really my country?
Country? Forget about country. Basic humanity. What happened? We can blame China or the now defunct USSR for introducing these ideas. But they didn’t force anyone to believe in said ideas. That’s what I don’t understand.
The Biden administration is completely captured. They don't care if their ideology is harming women and children. Biden has dismantled Title IX and hundreds of girls are being harmed. His support of genital mutilation is sickening. I can't imagine any former president even considering being perfectly fine with the healthy body parts of children being amputated. Dr. Haim has a conscience and truly believes 'First Do No Harm'. Biden and his DOJ have lost touch with reality and have no conscience left.
He put a trans activist in charge of HHS. It's going to take another several years for people to experience the damage first hand to roll the Democratic Party back on this. They're still behaving like the activist's lies are true.
I am the only doctor in the US to file a Supreme Court lawsuit against gender affirming care in minors. I could also use the support. Thank you.
What is the best way to support you?
Spread the word and spread the name. I get attacked on a daily basis, I'm censored into oblivion. My voice may not be reaching many anymore, but hopefully others can.
I heard about Dr Haims case the other day, and now I see this article.
It is good to know there are many people out there trying to help his case along.
Thank you for what you are doing Dr. Haim!
Please donate to his GiveSendGo. It's going to cost him a fortune.
I appreciate Dr Haim for speaking truth to power and standing against medical malpractice. I want to contribute, but I need to understand more about the charges and laws that they apply to.
Jorge - A quick Google search on Dr Haim and City Journal came up with a number of news articles. I haven't read through these two myself, but I thought they might give you what you're looking for. I hope this information saves people some time.
An article in City Journal by Dr Haim
https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-whistleblower-on-gender-affirming-care-speaks-out
Christopher Rufo's article
https://www.city-journal.org/article/sex-change-procedures-at-texas-childrens-hospital
As I understand he's charged with violations of HIPPA which seem to be a stretch due to a lack of personal identifying information in them
This sorry saga demonstrates yet again that the trans movement has little to do with science, and much to do with politics.
Scientific and medical data are only useful to the trans propagandists if they can be cherry-picked and deployed in support of their political agenda - which is compelling the rest of us to affirm the right of men masquerading as women to be allowed into any women’s spaces whenever they like. (So far as I can tell trans men in men’s spaces elicits utter indifference from almost everyone). Because it’s a totalitarian political ideology debate is a threat. Hence anything contrary to their political beliefs, or anyone supporting anything to the contrary, is either ignored, sidelined or suppressed.
The innate and immutable gender identity at the heart of trans dogma is proposed as overriding every other possible psychological component of the self. And for it to apply to adults wanting to get into ladies clothing and locker rooms it must also apply to children too. If it does not, then the adult position reverts to linguistic manipulation and a niche lifestyle choice. In effect children have become medical collateral damage in this particular political crusade.
What Dr Cass & colleagues have done is expose their evidence base to the same standard of scrutiny as every other evidence base in medicine, using a degree of rigour trans agitators are unaccustomed to bothering with. This is the kind of equality they don’t favour, because like all politicians they only spout the cherry-picked data that supports their agenda.
As your great social commentator Thomas Sowell has said “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.“
And nothing excites anger among the political Left more than perceived discrimination against one of their preferred minority victim groups. Which is why they have reacted so strongly to Dr Haim with a political weapon, and not a scientific one eg a rebuttal of Cass using their own rigorous meta analysis. Dr Haim’s treatment is a classic Stalinist show trial tactic - both punitive and deterrent.
Amen!
"This sorry saga demonstrates yet again that the trans movement has little to do with science, and much to do with politics." -- I'd say it goes beyond politics to a faith-based religion.
I donated when I first heard Dr. Haim's story, and I donated again today when I heard about the indictment. I am sure there will be a third time.
Thank you for publishing this. If we all donate to Dr Haim and get others to do so this case will make a big impact You can donate as little as $5 and leave a comment on the funding page This is a way for us to get our voices heard .
I hate to say it, but Dr Haim is a goner. The unanimity of the Establishment powers arrayed against him is stunning. It's not just the Biden administration's DOJ, the Department of Education with Title IX, and Health and Human Services, which recently prevailed in court to compel West Virginia to cover sex change treatments under Medicaid.
Quite a few advocacy organizations once known for advancing gay and lesbian equality have metamorphosed into advocates of "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the discredited idea that gay people can be turned straight. Most prominent include ACLU, GLAAD, GLSEN, AND HRC. How much of a role the six figure donations from billionaire trans fetishists played in this betrayal of gay people is the obvious question.
The medical societies are reaffirming their long-standing statements supporting sex change procedures, They are steadfast in refusing to acknowledge the findings in the Cass Report and the rock solid evidence marshalled to support them.
Most surprising, perhaps, is the way some very prominent corporate law factories have supported the trans agenda. A well known Wall Street firm pro bono provided a team of eight lawyers to the so far successful attack on the Arkansas law restricting treatments. A similarly prominent Washington - Boston firm likewise assisted in the West Virginia Medicaid case. The Arkansas case is on appeal to the Court of Appeals.
The outlook is bleak, folks. Even if Dr Haim is acquitted, he'll be left penniless unless financial support in the seven figures is forthcoming. There are quite a few excellent law firms in Houston that would be a match for the legal talent coming after him, and I'd hope they have been hiring associates who escaped the postmodernist "Social Justice" indoctrination at so-called national law schools. Whether one of them could be recruited to provide pro bono representation is a question I have no idea as to the answer. Adding to the uncertainty is how the mainstream news media have kept a virtual blackout on the issues. For example, I don't think even now has NPR said one word in its news programming about the Cass Report or the administration's plans to abolish girl's athletic teams. Unless someone has some specific reason to pay attention to the controversy, they're likely in the dark. The administration, too, seems to be trying to fly under the public's radar, and the journalists are cooperating for the most part.
> Quite a few advocacy organizations once known for advancing gay and lesbian equality have metamorphosed into advocates of "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the discredited idea that gay people can be turned straight. Most prominent include ACLU, GLAAD, GLSEN, AND HRC.
Well, since "trans" is the logical consequence of "gay", this is not surprising.
> For example, I don't think even now has NPR said one word in its news programming about the Cass Report or the administration's plans to abolish girl's athletic teams.
Why are you still listening to NPR?
"since "trans" is the logical consequence of "gay", this is not surprising." -- Where on Earth do you get such nonsense?!
Logic:
Third wave feminism: Men and women are interchangeable in the workplace.
"Gay Marriage": Men and women are interchangeable in bed.
Trans: Men and women are generally interchangeable.
That is what's called a 'reductio ad absurdum' logical fallacy.
Ok, so you have no idea what "reductio ad absurdum" means. Got it.
Haim violated HIPAA by leaving in too much identifying information. I am for whistleblowing on this issue, but not at the expense of patient privacy. Also, Rufo is not to be trusted. He intentionally whips up “culture wars” issues and talks about this openly.
“Carmel Shachar, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, disagrees that the records leaked by Haim have been sufficiently de-identified to ensure compliance with HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Shachar’s own work focuses on health policy and the law.
“The most commonly used way to ensure compliance is to remove certain identifiers, and there are 18 identifiers listed by the HHS, with the argument that once you remove all of those nobody would be able to re-identify your data,” Shachar explained. “The most prominent one here that I see [referring to the material leaked by Haim] is the date and time of appointment, which is one of the identifiers.”
The hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy… “All elements of dates (except year) for dates that are directly related to an individual, including birth date, admission date, discharge date, death date, and all ages over 89 and all elements of dates (including year) indicative of such age, except that such ages and elements may be aggregated into a single category of age 90 or older.”
Haim’s leaked records included the precise date and time of individual patient appointments for youth being treated for gender dysphoria at Texas Children’s.”
Also, Haim's attorney claims he is a "mandatory reporter of child abuse."
Mandatory reporters for medical abuse concerns are required to first go to the Texas Medical Board and not journalists. Reports for child abuse concerns are required to first go to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
I agree I think he was naive but now full powers of the state are against him.
From what I've seen from another source, he didn't redact properly, leaving in treatment dates as well as clear identifier that the data came from Texas Christian.
I've only been involved in a HIPPA related question once as a collaborater on a study where part of the data came from patient medical data. There was an experienced team that evaluated the de-identification of the data, and briefed all of us, making a big deal out of releasing to a public entity individual patient data was a no no.
I'm completely sympathetic to Haim's concerns about what was going on at the medical center hospital at which he was employed, as well as around the nation.
However, he is being charged with HIPPA violations. He forwarded to a journalist 4 redacted patient records. While redacted, putting patient records in the public sphere is a HIPPA violation.
He had other documented evidence of internal communication that would have shown what was going on, and would have not opened himself to thus level of legal entanglement. He could have also gone to his own state authorities. Texas is hardly sympathetic to what is going on in gender clinics.
So I'm sorry, while I'm against what is going on in gender clinics, I'm also completely on board with patient privacy and the HIPPA regulations that pertain. Doctors must do no harm. They also should respect HIPPA.
I can not lionize him.
This is not going to chill anything. People that want to blow whistles just need to be smart about it.
Your point is well taken. However, I think it's worth noting that "de-identified" health records are NOT covered by the HIPAA privacy rule, for the obvious reason that they do not identify a particular patient. I cannot say for sure whether Dr. Hain's records were sufficiently de-identified, but, if they were, then there was no HIPAA violation.
See:
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/special-topics/de-identification/index.html#:~:text=Regardless%20of%20the%20method%20by,longer%20considered%20protected%20health%20information.
Yes!!! Support Dr. Haim. And support public detransitioners like me Chance @ detransjoy . You will find me loud and proud on IG, YT and X. I am currently experiencing much cyber attacks and also I am not even able to attend the Detrans Awareness day in DC this week!
@detransjoy
You might well have provided the details of the “highly dubious felony charges.”
Specifically, the grand jury indictment alleges that Dr. Haim accessed the medical records of minor patients that were not under his care, and that he did so under false pretense (falsely claiming that he had an urgent need for access to the medical record system for adult patients under his care). This would be a clear violation of HIPAA, and a felony. There is nothing “dubious” about it.
Assuming of course that the charges are proven. But let us consider that Chris Rufo himself confirmed that Haim provided him with the medical records that he published. Unless Dr. Haim can credibly claim that these patients were under his care, there is a prima facie case against him. He has not made that claim.
The fact that identifying information was redacted is irrelevant to the indictment. It would be far worse if there were identifying information, but the key element of the crime
is that he accessed the records of patients not under his care.
You can support Dr. Haim because you choose to believe he is innocent of the charges. But that is yet to be determined. Or you can support Dr. Haim regardless of whether or not he is guilty of violating patient confidentiality.
For my part, I take the matter of patient confidentiality very seriously. Medical professionals, or indeed any other hospital employees, should be not be empowered to access the records of patients unless they are under their care, or they have a legitimate business reason to do so.
I wholeheartedly endorse Dr. Haim’s concerns about trans medicine. I cannot endorse violating medical confidentiality, regardless of those concerns.