{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-condemns-biden-dojs-indictment-of-texas-doctor-who-sounded-alarm-on-illegal-transgender-procedures-at-childrens-hospital/", "Hawley Condemns Biden DOJ\u2019s Indictment of Texas Doctor who Sounded Alarm on Illegal Transgender Procedures at Children\u2019s Hospital", "2024-06-21", "2024", "2024-06", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray, denouncing the Justice Department\u2019s prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim and requesting all documents related to the agency\u2019s investigation. President Biden\u2019s Justice Department indicted Dr. Haim after he blew the whistle on Texas Children\u2019s Hospital for secretly conducting illegal child sterilization surgeries in the name of transgender healthcare.\n\n\u201cThis prosecution is intended to silence Dr. Haim, deter future whistleblowers, and allow deception and medical malpractice to continue apace. The Biden Administration is obviously doing this at the behest of far-left activists, whose views on youth gender medicine are wildly out of step with scientific evidence and the emerging medical consensus,\u201d wrote Senator Hawley.\n\n\u201cAccountability is coming. You both must immediately take steps to preserve all documents related to this case, in anticipation of future investigation,\u201d he concluded.\n\nSenator Hawley has previously fought against medical abuses at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children\u2019s Hospital in Missouri.\n\nSenator Hawley has also introduced the Protecting Our Kids from Child Abuse Act, which would allow those harmed by gender-transition procedures as minors to bring lawsuits against the participating individuals and entities.\n\nRead the full letter here or below.\n\nJune 20, 2024\n\nDear Attorney General Garland and Director Wray:\n\nThe world is awakening to the reality that for years, youth gender medicine has gone horribly awry. Countless children\u2014many with mental health conditions\u2014have been subjected to life-altering puberty blockers, sex change hormones, and even surgical interventions without proper screening. Countries including the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, and Finland have clamped down on these practices. But not you. Instead, you are retaliating against courageous whistleblowers willing to call out this medical malpractice for what it is.\n\nIn response to public pressure and legal action by the Texas Attorney General, Texas Children\u2019s Hospital assured Texas lawmakers that it had stopped performing gender treatments on underage children. But that was a lie, as Dr. Haim established. He did so by adducing redacted records that demonstrated the Hospital\u2019s abuses, including the sterilization of underage children. At no point did Dr. Haim reveal confidential patient information.\n\nNevertheless, DOJ has now prosecuted Dr. Haim for alleged violations of HIPAA, threatening him with ten years behind bars and fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Significantly, Dr. Haim is only being prosecuted for the way in which he obtained the records in question\u2014not for disclosing any confidential patient information, which he did not do. The information uncovered by Dr. Haim\u2014evidence of a hospital lying to lawmakers about an issue of significant public concern\u2014is critically important for responsible governance. And yet you are attempting to squelch it.\n\nLet\u2019s be clear about what\u2019s happening here. This prosecution is intended to silence Dr. Haim, deter future whistleblowers, and allow deception and medical malpractice to continue apace. The Biden Administration is obviously doing this at the behest of far-left activists, whose views on youth gender medicine are wildly out of step with scientific evidence and the emerging medical consensus. This prosecution is an unconscionable abuse of legal process, in service of shoddy and irresponsible gender ideology.\n\nAccountability is coming. You both must immediately take steps to preserve all documents related to this case, in anticipation of future investigation. In the meantime, please provide copies of all documents relevant to the decision to investigate and charge Dr. Haim.\n\nI await your response.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:11:47Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-condemns-biden-dojs-indictment-of-texas-doctor-who-sounded-alarm-on-illegal-transgender-procedures-at-childrens-hospital/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8913078345358372, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}