The Biden administration’s prosecution of a Texas surgeon who exposed a hospital’s sex-change procedures on children appears “political,” says a former Department of Health and Human Services official who enforced the law the surgeon is accused of violating.
The Heritage Foundation’s Roger Severino spoke to The Daily Signal about the prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim, who leaked records of secret transgender procedures for minors at Texas Children’s Hospital last year. The files, published by City Journal, showed the hospital misled the public by falsely asserting it had stopped its transgender medicine program in response to a state investigation.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice charged Haim in May with violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, alleging he illegally accessed and released private patient…
