Texas Children's Hospital halts hormone therapies for transgender children in response to governor and AG's recent actions
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DOJ Indicts Texas Doctor for Alleged Data Leak
DOJ Indicts Texas Doctor Whofor LeakedAlleged InformationData on Child Transgender TreatmentLeak
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The Spin
If illegally accessing HIPPA-protected patient records under false pretenses wasn't egregious enough, the medical services Dr. Eithan Haim thought he exposed were completelyfor normalimportant transgender healthcare. Fortreatments for vulnerable children who need time to decide which gender they are, puberty blockers are a godsendpatients. Through either ignorance, malice, or maliceboth, Haim chose to illegally reveal thesensitive intimateprivate and protected medical records of these vulnerable children. For those crimes, he's now facing the consequences.
Eithan Haim is a hero who exposed TCH for secretly falsifying medical records to continue its harmful transgender practices after promising to stop. TCH took children as young as 11 — who were dealing with anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts — and diagnosedcontinued themits withprocedures genderregardless. dysphoriaThe soDOJ theyis couldtrying pumpto themimprison fulla ofwhistleblower hormonesfor andexposing eventuallyinstitutionalized cutchild offabuse. their sexual organsDr. TheHaiam's DOJethical ismotivations tryingmust tobe imprisonconsidered ain manthe forcontext exposingof institutionalizedalleged childHIPAA abuseviolations.
Metaculus Prediction
There is a 50% chance that at least 13.1% of American adults will identify as LGBTQ in 2070, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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