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On December 4, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in the case for Tennessee Senate Bill 1. Today, the highest court in the land has spoken — and it got it right.
In a decision that will now set precedent throughout the entire country, the Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s right to protect our children from irreversible and unproven medical procedures under the guise of “gender-affirming care.” This is not just a victory for Tennessee, but for every state in the country seeking to preserve its duty to protect minors.
In today’s political climate, it’s more clear than ever that the Left has resisted so much that they now champion the mutilation of children. In their America, biology and truth are optional and children are subject to permanent, life-changing procedures.
Back in 2023 after Matt Walsh and the team at the Daily Wire uncovered disturbing details about so-called “gender affirming” care in our state, we said enough is enough. Now, two years later, that law was just affirmed by the United States Supreme Court.
To allow children – who cannot vote, get a tattoo, or enlist in the military – to permanently alter their bodies in the name of &#8220;affirming them” is not compassion, it’s exploitation.
As a State Senator, I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and protect Tennesseans – that’s why my colleagues and I passed this legislation. With this historic ruling, the Supreme Court of the United States – with Tennessee right by their side – took a stand and made a bold statement: our country will not stand by while children are preyed upon for profit.
Tennessee has become a haven for families fleeing the Left-wing chaos in blue states. Families are moving here seeking common sense and stability that frankly does not exist anymore in areas of our country. With this Supreme Court ruling, Tennessee continues leading the nation and solidifying itself as a state with a backbone and the interest of children in mind.
This ruling is more than a legal win; it’s the start of a cultural shift in our country. The Supreme Court has decided that states can make decisions for the people through their duly elected representatives – especially on matters as serious as the health of our children.
A day like today wouldn’t be possible without the remarkable dedication and fight from our outstanding Attorney General, Jonathan Skrmetti. His conviction and commitment to the rule of law are why we are celebrating this milestone. While some Attorneys General chase headlines, General Skrmetti chases justice.
President Trump’s recent executive orders — protecting women’s sports and restoring a biologically based definition of sex across federal agencies — are major victories for conservatives and for common sense. Today’s Supreme Court decision is another powerful affirmation of truth and actual leadership. I’m deeply encouraged by President Trump’s bold stand on this issue and pray his administration continues to lead with courage and conviction.
This historic decision gives new found hope and strength to every state bold enough to push back on these policies that prioritize money over children’s safety. The Supreme Court has only affirmed what we know all along: Senate Bill 1 is lawful, necessary, and is now the law of the land. This is only the beginning, Tennessee.
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Jack Johnson represents Senate District 27 which consists of Williamson County. Jack Johnson serves as the Tennessee Senate Majority Leader.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A top executive at a major healthcare provider whose duties involve placing graduate students at hospitals across the country has said that “diversity” is essential for healthcare and advocated for medical schools to accept students in racially proportional ways. 
Dr. Monique Butler, the president of Graduate Medical Education for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Healthcare, has aggressively pushed DEI and racial quotas. HCA, headquartered in Tennessee, also has a history of championing DEI, though many references to such efforts have been scrubbed from its website in recent months. 
Butler was <a href="https://investor.hcahealthcare.com/news/news-details/2024/HCA-Healthcare-Names-Dr.-Monique-Butler-as-President-of-Graduate-Medical-Education/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> president of HCA’s graduate medical education program in March 2024. One of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs, it <a href="https://hcahealthcaregme.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offers</a> over 300 residency and fellowship programs across 16 states and 79 hospitals with more than 5000 residents and 300 fellows. 
According to HCA, it is <a href="https://hcahealthcaregme.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the</a> “largest sponsor of residency and fellowship programs across the nation” and its facilities handle “five percent of all U.S. hospital services.”
Prior to her work at HCA, Butler pushed for DEI in presentations and speeches and even advocated for medical schools to adopt a sort of racial quota system to ensure their student body was directly proportional to the general population.  
“Diversity in health care cannot be a want, it is a must-have,” Butler <a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/discussion-to-examine-health-care-disparities-racial-empowerment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a 2020 speech. 
In 2021, she delivered the University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences keynote <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Y5s3JlP6I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">address</a>, in which she claimed: “race — as well as sex, gender, sexuality, age, social class and ability —  can adversely affect opportunities, access, care, treatment and the overall lived experiences of people of color, particularly black people.”
During that speech, Butler also called for medical schools across the United States to admit a directly proportional number of minority students into their programs. 
Butler said she was issuing a “call to action” to medical school leaders to “ensure that their student population reflects the population of the United States population,” noting that only 5% of medical school graduates were black despite making up 13% of the population. 
“We have some work to do,” she said. 
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She said that the lower number of black and minority medical school graduates was contributing to “health disparities” in the United States. 
In that same lecture, she pushed a now-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/study-saying-black-babies-more-likely-to-die-under-white-doctors-didnt-control-for-1-key-factor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debunked</a> study that claims that black babies are more likely to die under white doctors’ care. 
Butler also made numerous references to George Floyd, claiming that police brutality was a contributor to health &#8220;inequality.&#8221; She said that curriculum at medical schools across the country should be infused with implicit bias training. 
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In October 2020, Butler moderated a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c4zs13Esoo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> on what she called the “health equity crisis” in the United States. Butler said that governments should be held “responsible” for “neutralizing” the amount of money spent per school district. 
Later, in a 2023 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8as63qBruY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lecture</a>, she urged people to be “allies” and urged providers to “challenge” human resources departments to “ensure that there are metrics they are looking” at to ensure “at least” diverse candidates. 
Butler&#8217;s push for DEI in medicine was criticized by Do No Harm, a group devoted to getting politics out of medicine.
&#8220;Medical education, whether in the classroom or in hospital, must be focused on merit. Dr. Butler is advocating for the return of racial segregation in medicine, promoting the disproved hypothesis of racial concordance, eroding patient-physician trust and degrading the rigor of medical education,&#8221; Senior Do No Harm fellow Dr. Jared Ross told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The best physician for you is the most qualified, regardless of melanin content or sexual orientation.&#8221;
Butler has worked for a number of high-profile medical corporations throughout her career and has received numerous glowing profiles. Some of these profiles include DEI-related accomplishments.  
For example, an October 2022 University of Michigan School Of Kinesiology alumni <a href="https://www.kines.umich.edu/news-events/profiles/dr-monique-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> of Butler reveals that she created something called the Grant Foundation in order to “improve health equity.” One of the purported programs offered by the Grant Foundation is the Pathfinders Scholarship Award, which is given to first-generation and “underrepresented” University of Michigan kinesiology students to “pursue a career in health care.”
The foundation has a small online footprint and is not advertised by the University of Michigan aside from the alumni profile. It is unclear how many students have received the award or how students may apply for the opportunity. 
Another program with a scant track record that Butler is said to have created is the “Women Physicians Network,” which is mentioned in a number of Butler’s <a href="https://yourhub.denverpost.com/blog/2018/08/hcahealthones-swedish-medical-center-welcomes-new-chief-medical-officer/223519/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profiles</a> and again in the congressional <a href="https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2020/09/29/CREC-2020-09-29-pt1-PgE893.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record</a>. This network appears to have no online presence and is not registered as a non-profit in Michigan or Florida. 
Another profile of Butler <a href="https://umichpicsannouncements.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-global-health-symposium-brochure.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reveals</a> that she has “research experience” in health care “disparities” while there appears to be limited evidence of any scholarly articles widely available that Butler has contributed to on disparities. 
Her employer, HCA, has also publicly pushed adherence to DEI ideology until relatively recently. 
“Our Executive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council informs critical strategic decision making, monitors progress against goals and objectives, and serves as visible and vocal sponsors of diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the organization,” HCA posted on its website as of at least October 2024, according to an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20241008171042/https://hcahealthcare.com/about/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">archived</a> webpage. 
“Across HCA Healthcare, our Division Diversity, Equity and Inclusion councils support deployment of key DEI strategies and programs at a local level. These councils are comprised of division leaders and facility representatives who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve,” HCA added. 
That page now redirects to a general “mission” statement that doesn’t mention diversity or equity. 
When reached for comment about some of its deleted DEI pages, a spokeswoman gave a general comment on the mission of HCA. 
“Our focus has always been to foster a culture that exemplifies our company’s mission and values by promoting care and respect for all patients and colleagues, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age or other characteristics, and we will continue to do so,” the spokeswoman said. “Our Culture and Values team continues to lead and facilitate cross-department partnerships that seek to support the delivery of high-quality care for our patients, foster opportunities for colleagues and improve the health of our communities.”
The spokeswoman added that HCA was “continuously looking for ways to build on our longstanding commitment to promoting an environment where everyone feels valued, while also supporting a broader vision of teamwork, respect and shared purpose across all areas of our organization.”
In the past, HCA released reports highlighting its DEI initiatives. 
Its 2023 DEI “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240918105926/https:/hcahealthcare.com/util/documents/2023/2023-HCAH-DEI-Year-in-Review-a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">snapshot</a>” boasted  that the group adopted “Joint Commission equity standards to reduce health disparities&#8221; and investments in “health equity partnerships.” These investments included $7.42 million to historically black colleges and Hispanic “serving institutions” between 2021 and 2023.
In February 2024, HCA released a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240816160832/https:/hcahealthcare.com/util/documents/2023/508_DEI-EEO-1-Report-2023-a.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on all the ways the company has incorporated different layers of DEI councils throughout the company. 
“HCA Healthcare is focused on fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging for our colleagues through workplace programs, education, diverse talent acquisition, engagement and development,” the company reported. 
These efforts include the creation of a black leadership organization, implicit bias training, and “advancing equity for our LGBTQ+ communities.”
HCA also announced that it was working to develop more relationships with “diverse suppliers.”
“We are committed to expanding partnerships with a diverse range of businesses, including those owned and operated by people of color, women, veterans, members of the LGBTQ+ community and members of socially and economically disadvantaged groups,” the report said. 
However, many of the DEI-related materials appear to have been removed from the HCA’s website. 
Ross, of Do No Harm, said that HCA should completely abandon any DEI-related projects.
&#8220;Hospital Corporation of America should stop any DEI efforts and instead put resources into providing the best education for doctors,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire.
The apparent retreat comes amid increasing cultural pressure for companies and universities to abandon DEI principles and focus on merit. This shift comes after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in June 2023, and the executive orders from President Donald Trump cracking down on the federal government’s promotion of DEI.

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Following President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order protecting children from irreversible gender procedures, hospitals across the country have started canceling appointments or ceasing their transgender programs for children.
&#8220;It’s already having its intended effect — preventing children from being maimed and sterilized by adults perpetuating a radical, false claim that they can somehow change a child’s sex,&#8221; the White House said in a Monday release. &#8220;Hospitals around the country are taking action to downsize or eliminate their so-called &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; programs.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump will always protect American children,&#8221; the White House added. &#8220;Promises made, promises kept – again.&#8221;
In New York, NYU Langone Health began canceling transgender appointments for children, including two 12-year-olds who were supposed to start puberty blockers — medication that can have irreversible impacts on a child&#8217;s development.
In Colorado, a spokesperson for Denver Health <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/hospitals-pause-gender-affirming-care-trump-transgender-order-rcna190164">told NBC that it had stopped</a> performing transgender surgeries on children and young people under the age of 19.
In Virginia, both VCU Health and the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Richmond confirmed to NBC that they have halted their transgender medication and surgeries on children and people under 19. UVA Health in Charlottesville <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/31/trans-children-trump-hormones-healthcare/">has suspended</a> all so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; while it reviews the guidance.
&#8220;Like many health systems across the country, the University of Virginia and UVA Health are working to analyze and interpret the federal order and related state guidance, as well as monitoring other potential policy changes and impacts to ensure we are always delivering care in accordance with the law,&#8221; the hospital wrote.
In the nation&#8217;s capital, Washington, D.C., Children’s National Hospital “paused prescriptions of puberty blockers and hormone therapy to comply with the directives while we assess the situation further,&#8221; according to NBC. The hospital has previously said it doesn&#8217;t perform transgender surgeries on children.
In Illinois, Lurie Children&#8217;s Hospital of Chicago said it is reviewing Trump&#8217;s order and “assessing any potential impact to the clinical services we offer to our patient families,&#8221; <a href="https://fox59.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-some-hospitals-pause-gender-affirming-care-to-evaluate-trumps-executive-order/">according to the local outlet Fox59</a>. The hospital statement added: “Our team will continue to advocate for access to medically necessary care, grounded in science and compassion for the patient-families we are so privileged to serve.&#8221;
In Pennsylvania, Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia <a href="https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/hospitals-halt-gender-care-for-minors-following-executive-order.html">also said it is</a> &#8220;closely reviewing recent government actions, including the executive order on Jan. 28, to understand how they might impact care for the children who rely on [it].&#8221;
Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/">executive order</a> during his second week in office protecting children from irreversible gender transition procedures, calling them a “stain on our Nation’s history.”
The order describes the transgender procedures that doctors and activists have pushed upon children in recent years, and states that the United States will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the attempted gender transition of a child, promising that it will “rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
“Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions,” the order states. “This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.”
“Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding,” the order continues. “Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.”
On Friday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-answers-questions-on-trump-actions-protecting-children-from-trans-procedures">told The Daily Wire</a> that Trump would &#8220;certainly&#8221; support congressional efforts to protect children from transgender procedures.
&#8220;The president has already taken a very strong stance on this issue this week with the signing of his executive order, a few executive orders in this space,&#8221; she told The Daily Wire during Friday&#8217;s press briefing.
“First, he made it the official policy of the federal government that there are only two sexes, male and female, and we have directed all federal agencies to comply with that policy,” Leavitt explained. “As for congressional legislation to support the president’s agenda in this space, and certainly ending the mutilation of young children, the chemical castration of young children, which is a barbaric practice that the vast majority of Americans do not support, for young, minor children, certainly, the president would support Congress’ efforts, as he has already made that very clear this week.”

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Several leaders of Gaza hospitals are high-ranking members of Hamas, while many others have terrorist ties, a Daily Wire review of Arab media reports and social media posts found.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/suspected-hamas-operative-hailed-as-a-humanitarian-after-arrest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously exposed</a> that Kamal Adwan Hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, whose recent detainment caused international uproar for his release, was characterized in Arab media as a Hamas colonel. His social media posts show his support for Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israeli civilians.
But Abu Safiya is not the only Gaza hospital leader with ties to Hamas. He is joined by current and former leaders of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, and Gaza European Hospital near Khan Yunis.
<h3>Dr. Saleh al-Hams, Nursing Director of Gaza European Hospital</h3>
Dr. Saleh al-Hams, the <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/middleeast/israeli-military-orders-evacuations-in-southern-gaza-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nursing director</a> of the Gaza European Hospital, has made several public posts on Facebook that indicate his strong ties to Hamas. In 2017, al-Hams <a href="https://archive.is/yptAR" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uploaded a photo</a> of himself wearing a military camouflage jacket and a hat adorned with the logo of Hamas&#8217;s military wing, the Qassam Brigades. <a href="https://archive.is/PIVIh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">He donned</a> the same outfit in a photo at a 2018 event with others wearing Hamas logos.
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In a 2020 post, al-Hams <a href="https://archive.is/Hdol0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared images</a> of Hamas members and a child holding a rifle, with a caption reading: “Our resistance is more than paying the price for the victory of the undermined and whoever stands with us in truth, we do not support him in unjustness and whoever doesn&#8217;t like it should prepare the preparation list for the next confrontation to be the alternative.”
Al-Hams <a href="https://archive.is/kRWHB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> Hamas’s October 7, 2024 attack on Israel the following day, calling it a “gift.”
“I did not imagine that I would enter the threshold of fifty years, that I would live to fill my eyes with moments of pride and dignity as I live them today, and to receive a gift as I received them yesterday and today,” he wrote.
In another post, Hams <a href="https://archive.is/WA4KG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a video</a> of victims of the California wildfires receiving medical treatment, where he states Gaza hospitals were bombarded by Americans’ missiles, adding “you tasted from the same cup, and the response was divine.” In <a href="https://archive.is/wG8hV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a second post</a> about the victims of the wildfires, he wrote, “I hope you’re having a reflective moment to review your attitudes.”
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<h3>Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, Head of Al Shifa Hospital</h3>
Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the head of Al Shifa Hospital —  who was <a href="https://archive.is/myyDd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded</a> the Arab Doctor of the Year Award in 2024 — has <a href="https://archive.is/Vh602" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in</a> Hamas events, including an event celebrating the terror group’s 32nd anniversary. <a href="https://archive.is/Vh602" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to a 2019 article</a> from Pal Times, Salmiya spoke at the event alongside Hamas officials, where he thanked Hamas and spoke about martyrs.
“During the speech of the martyrs&#8217; families, Dr. Muhammad Abu Salmiya thanked the Hamas movement and the family of the Sheikh Ahmed Yassin Mosque for this wonderful gesture, through which Hamas and the family of the mosque confirmed that they are loyal to the blood of the martyrs, the sons of the neighborhood from all factions,” the article read.
Salmiya, a pediatrician, was arrested in November 2023 and remained in Israeli detention for seven months on suspicion of allowing his hospital to serve as a Hamas command and control center that also held hostages. Tunnel networks <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-releases-footage-of-hamas-terrorist-tunnels-under-al-shifa-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were found</a> under Shifa Hospital, and hundreds of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen were killed in fights with the IDF at the complex. The body of 19-year-old Israeli hostage Noa Marciano was found in a building next to the hospital. In May, her parents claimed a doctor at the hospital killed Marciano, <a href="https://www.jns.org/idf-lookout-noa-marciano-killed-by-doctor-at-shifa-hospital/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish News Syndicate</a> reported.
Salmiya — <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz47w24dld0o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who claims</a> he was tortured in prison — sparked significant controversy in Israel, which followed a directive from the National Security Council directing Israeli security agency Shin Beit to create a list of prisoners to be freed due to lack of space in jails. The Shin Bet <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-said-to-reprimand-agent-who-signed-off-on-shifa-directors-release-to-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly reprimanded</a> the senior official who approved Salmiya’s release.
In 2014, Salmiya <a href="https://archive.is/slxSI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uploaded a photo</a> to Facebook of himself with a Qassam Brigades logo at the bottom. In 2013, he <a href="https://archive.is/JrzsH" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a photo</a> of a man in a Hamas headband, with the caption: “My enemy is coming to you, coming from every house, alley and street. Our hope is for tomorrow, God willing.” In 2014, he shared a graphic of the Al Qassam Brigades logo on an airplane. The next day, <a href="https://archive.is/qcGU8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he shared an image</a> with fighters of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad with the caption, “Brothers in blood, brothers in arms, this is the true unity.”
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Salmiya has also used his Facebook page <a href="https://archive.is/Rli8p" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to praise</a> a November 2022 terror attack at a Jerusalem bus stop where a 15-year-old boy was killed and 14 others were injured. Salmiya has also publicly mourned terrorists including <a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18UwEKEcdc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Udai Tamimi</a>, who killed an Israeli soldier when opening fire at the entrance of Ma’ale Adumim.
According to <a href="https://david-collier.com/doctors-shifa-hospital/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigator David Collier</a>, Salmiya’s brother, Khalid Abu Salmia, was a leader of  the al-Qassam Brigades before he was killed in a targeted strike in 2004.
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<h3>Atef al-Kahlout, Former Head of Indonesian Hospital</h3>
Atef al-Kahlout who served as head of the Indonesian Hospital until 2024, is also an alleged Hamas colonel. Al-Kahlout has been quoted in Western media including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and the New York Times.
A <a href="https://archive.is/DTy8F#selection-707.0-707.164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2011 article</a> from the Palestinian media outlet Al Ray features a photo of al-Kahlout in military uniform, reporting that he affirmed medical services are “fully prepared to confront the enemy&#8217;s crimes against our people.” When he was appointed as Hamas&#8217;s deputy director general of military medical services in 2010, he was referred to as a “colonel” <a href="https://archive.is/vfxYL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple times in an article</a>, a title that appeared again in a <a href="https://archive.is/IDGiq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2012 article</a>.
In 2015, he <a href="https://archive.is/Xs4cU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a photo</a> of himself with deceased Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hamas official Fathi Hamad on Facebook, and <a href="https://archive.is/55jTI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another</a> with just Hamad. Haniyeh was the leader of Hamas until his assassination in Iran in July 2024. Hamad came <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-distances-itself-from-official-who-urged-murder-of-jews-everywhere/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">under international scrutiny</a> in 2019 after calling on the Palestinian diaspora to “attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing,” though he later attempted to walk back his comments.
Al-Kahlout’s Facebook also includes <a href="https://archive.is/F5JtO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a picture of him</a> wearing the Hamas scarf and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.126412717441951&amp;type=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several pictures</a> of the Hamas logo.
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According to his Facebook page, he is currently working at other hospitals including Patient Friends Association Hospital, Public Aid Hospitals, and Al-Sahaba Medical Complex.
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<h3>Dr. Marwan Sultan, Director of Indonesian Hospital</h3>
Al-Kahlout&#8217;s replacement, while not appearing to be a member of Hamas, has shared posts on social media that use inflammatory rhetoric against Jews and their allies.
In a <a href="https://archive.is/1SzCE#selection-1363.0-1387.124" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2014 post</a>, Sultan called on Muslims to “rise up to help our brothers in Gaza” and “take revenge on the Jews and those who help them.” A few months later, he <a href="https://archive.is/bzfNf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a request</a> for Allah to save Al-Aqsa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount — Judaism’s most holy site —  to be saved “from the filth of the Jews.” <a href="https://archive.is/swNzB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In 2023</a>, he mourned the death of former Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesperson, Khader Adnan, who died after an 87-day hunger strike in an Israeli prison.
<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231110-gaza-doctor-at-indonesian-hospital-come-and-see-you-wont-find-tunnels-and-bombs-you-will-only-find-our-people-dying/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sultan downplayed</a> Hamas’s presence in Gaza’s hospitals in a 2023 interview, despite being a subordinate of al-Kahlout at the time. In December, the IDF killed five gunmen and detained others in an operation at the Indonesian Hospital, the Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-says-it-wraps-up-operation-at-north-gaza-hospital-killing-5-gunmen-and-arresting-others/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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<h3>Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital</h3>
Aby Safiya, who has been published twice by The New York Times and profiled by CNN, is believed to be a terrorist operative and has been referred to as a colonel in five Arabic news articles, from four different articles spanning from 2017 to 2021. These articles were published in <a href="https://archive.is/MSfVZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quds Net News Agency</a>, <a href="https://archive.is/4Ueb8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alray</a>, <a href="https://archive.is/1KsC7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pal Times</a>, and <a href="https://archive.is/6PiWN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Watan</a> <a href="https://archive.is/6PiWN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">twice</a>. A 2018 <a href="https://archive.is/WNcaC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> by the Hamas-run Medical Services in Gaza refers to Abu Safiya as “Director of the Children’s Hospital, Colonel Hussam Abu Safiya.”
“It’s clear these news articles are using the word ‘aqeed’ to describe Hussam Abu Safiya which means military colonel,” Yigal Carmon, the president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) previously told The Daily Wire. “This word would not be used to describe someone running a hospital as a civilian.”
Abu Safiya’s ties to Hamas were first reported by Israeli activist <a href="https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1872625254788722784">Eitan Fischberger.</a>
Safiya’s social media shows his support of the October 7 attack and hostility towards Jews, including <a href="https://archive.is/9M2H9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a graphic</a> of Palestinians breaching the Israeli border with the caption, “We are coming back to you, we are coming back, oh our country we are coming back.”
<div class="image"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-864361" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-23-at-1.27.49%E2%80%AFPM-430x576.png" alt="" width="430" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-23-at-1.27.49%E2%80%AFPM-430x576.png 430w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-23-at-1.27.49%E2%80%AFPM-224x300.png 224w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-23-at-1.27.49%E2%80%AFPM-768x1030.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-23-at-1.27.49%E2%80%AFPM-1146x1536.png 1146w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-23-at-1.27.49%E2%80%AFPM.png 1186w" sizes="(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px" /></div>
The next day, Abu Safiya <a href="https://x.com/EFischberger/status/1872625316205842530" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a now-deleted Facebook post: “And they thought their fortresses would protect them from Allah, but Allah came upon them from where they did not expect, and cast terror into their hearts.”
Abu Safiya was arrested last month along with 240 others during a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital. In the wake of his arrest, organizations including the World Health Organization, Amnesty International, and the Council on America-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have called for his release.
Al-Hams, Abu Salmiya, al-Kahlout, and Sultan did not respond to requests for comment.

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These Gaza Hospital Leaders Are Also High-Ranking Hamas Members

Al-Shifa Hospital

Gaza

Hamas

Israel

In the face of those who have criticized the Israeli military for targeting hospitals where Hamas terrorists hide, on Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces released a video in which a member of the terrorist group Hamas admitted that Hamas and Islamic Jihad use hospitals to hide their terrorists and weapons specifically so that the Israeli military won’t target them.
The Israel Defense Forces released a video of Anas Muhammad Faiz Al-Sharif, 21, a Hamas terrorist who had been hiding out at Kamal Adwan Hospital, being questioned. Using a civilian or another protected person as a shield for military operations is a direct violation of International Humanitarian Law and is considered a war crime. That is clearly stated in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“I work at Kamal Adwan Hospital as a cleaning supervisor,” Al-Sharif stated. “I joined the Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas) in 2021 in the Nukhba forces in the Western Battalion.”
The “Nukhba forces” are an “elite unit within Hamas, which includes operatives chosen by senior Hamas leaders,” CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/israel-hamas-war-who-are-nukhba-force-military-unit-palestine-army-gaza-idf-18042121.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “Five Hamas leaders secretly planned the bloody invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, with 70 commandos from the terrorist group’s elite Nukhba Force leading the charge across the Gaza border, the London-based, pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Wednesday,” JNS <a href="https://www.jns.org/five-hamas-leaders-planned-oct-7-attack-70-nukhba-fighters-led-the-charge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in January 2024.
“Where were you arrested?” the interrogator asked.
“Inside Kamal Adwan Hospital,” he replied.
“When you were at Kamal Adwan Hospital, who else was there?” the interrogator continued.
“There were people there, the staff — the medical team I work with daily and directly. There were also operatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad from the Al-Nasser Division and other organizations in Northern Gaza,” Al-Sharif admitted.
“Why were you hiding in Kamal Adwan Hospital?” the interrogator queried.
“They believe it is a safe haven for them because the military cannot directly target it,” Al-Sharif said.
“What do you mean when you say it is a ‘safe haven’?” the interrogator pressed.
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“Because there are civilians and patients there,” Al-Sharif answered. “They think the military cannot bomb it, such as with a missile from an F-16 or by demolishing the building.”
“Now, when the operatives were in the hospital, what were they doing?” the interrogator wanted to know.
“The operatives were there transporting equipment and weapons like AK-47s &#8230; and pistols,” Al-Sharif revealed. “The weapons were transferred to and from the hospital from the outside in and from the inside out within the hospital. It was used for observation and patrols. They leave the hospital late at night; they arrive at the hospital in the morning. Inside the hospital, they distribute the grenades and mortars equipment for attacking tanks, for ambush positions and for tunnels underground to the command and control center, whether at Kamal Adwan, Faluja (Jabaliya Camp), or in new locations where the operatives are located.”
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Kamal Adwan Hospital after Israeli attacks on Gaza

WATCH: Hamas Member Admits Terrorists And Lethal Weapons Are In Hospitals So Israel Won’t Attack

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World

The weaponization of the U.S. Department of Justice against purported enemies of the Biden-Harris administration is nothing new. The Department’s persecution of pro-life advocates, praying grandmothers, and fathers of young children under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (while routinely ignoring arson and vandalism at crisis pregnancy centers chargeable under the same law) is hard to deny.
But the Department’s meritless criminal prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim, a whistleblowing physician who exposed covert gender medicine procedures inflicted on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital — performed in violation of state law — is an outrageous abuse of its law enforcement authority.
The principal wrongdoer in Dr. Haim’s case — leading the charge in his criminal prosecution for alleged violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) — is Assistant United States Attorney Tina Ansari, a Democratic donor who targeted Haim in part during a time when her law license had been suspended by the Texas Bar for failure to pay her bar dues.
As legal scholar Ed Whelan has correctly <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/dojs-false-pretenses-prosecution-of-whistleblower-dr-eithan-haim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out, the only reason Haim was targeted was because “he ran afoul of the transgender ideology that dominates” the current presidential administration.
But now, in <a href="https://eppc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/179145791960.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleadings</a> filed by Dr. Haim’s lawyers and in separate complaints filed by a former DOJ lawyer with both the State Bar of Texas and the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, Ansari is accused of having “knowingly sponsored false information” to the federal grand jury that indicted Haim and of having “knowingly misled a tribunal and presented deliberately misleading information to a grand jury.”
In other words, she wasn’t just practicing law on a suspended license. She is charged with lying to the grand jury to get Haim indicted — itself a violation of federal law.
As journalist Christopher Rufo <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/sex-change-procedures-at-texas-childrens-hospital" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Dr. Haim knew the hospital “secretly continued to perform transgender medical interventions, including the use of implantable puberty blockers, on minor children” after it assured the public it was no longer engaging in such medically dangerous and risky actions. Haim did not disclose the name of any patients, or any personally identifiable medical information protected by federal law under HIPAA (<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1320d-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42 U.S.C. §§1320d-6</a>).
The Justice Department didn’t care. It charged Haim with criminally violating HIPAA anyway, arguing that he had disclosed “individually identifiable health information,” something explicitly prohibited by HIPAA.
The punishment for such a conviction? Up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The original grand jury indictment claimed he had obtained HIPAA-protected patient medical information through “false pretenses.” Haim had, allegedly, accessed the medical records after he completed his surgical rotation at Texas Children’s Hospital in January 2021 and had no more patients there. But, according to the ethics complaints and a motion for grand jury material filed by Haim’s lawyers, Haim did still have patients at the hospital, and Ansari and other government prosecutors knew it. That would have made his access of patient records entirely legal under HIPAA.
The hospital provided records to the government showing that Haim continued to treat patients at the hospital after his residency was over, during the time when the grand jury indictment claims he wasn’t treating any patients and had no legal right to access patient records. All of this is also apparent in a “<a href="https://eppc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/DOC.76.Superseding-Indictment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Superseding Indictment</a>” Ansari filed on Oct. 10 that, as the defense points out, deletes all references to Haim accessing patient records when he was supposedly no longer treating patients at the hospital. Yet the new indictment still claims he obtained those records under “false pretenses.”
As a result, Haim’s lawyers asked the court to provide them with access to all of the materials the grand jury considered when it issued the original indictment.
Why? Because the documents would likely show that the hospital told Ansari that Haim was continuing to treat patients at the hospital when she was making presentations to the grand jury claiming the opposite.
Grand jury materials are secret under <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">applicable</a> federal rules of criminal procedure. But the grand jury materials should be released in this case, says Haim’s lawyers, under the exceptions provided in the rules, to determine if the government “knowingly” sponsored “false information before the grand jury” and if that false information was “capable” of “influencing the grand jury’s decision.”
The lawyers are right when they tell the court that if “the government has made material misleading statements to the grand jury, the defense should be permitted to review the relevant grand jury material.”
Haim has also filed a “Show Cause” motion asking the court to issue an order against Ansari for “engaging in the practice of law with a suspended law license.” The motion says she was administratively suspended on Sept. 1 for not paying her bar dues. She responded that she remedied this problem as of Sept. 19.
But as Haim’s attorneys point out, Ansari was signing and filing pleadings in the case during her suspension, which violates the Texas Code of Professional Conduct, the court’s own rules, and the internal rules of the Justice Department that direct DOJ lawyers to immediately cease their representation of the government during such a lapse.
Not surprisingly, Ansari is a big donor to Democrat candidates, having contributed a total of $11,350, which is quite a bit of money for a career civil service employee. Mind you, there is nothing illegal about those donations, but as the complaint filed against her with the Office of Professional Responsibility at DOJ states, it raises serious questions on whether “her specific ideological or political view as it related to the highly controversial issues in this prosecution” biased her judgment and prompted her to mislead a federal grand jury.
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The pursuit of Dr. Haim is simply outrageous. As one of Haim’s principal lawyers, Marcella Burke, told us, “DOJ has charged Dr. Haim with a non-existent crime. At a charitable minimum, this is a reckless prosecution and at its extreme, it is malicious prosecution.”
The fact that the indictment hasn’t been dropped indicates what’s really going on here. Because Haim didn’t release any personal medical information about any patient, something HIPAA prevents, the new indictment now charges him with allegedly acting to “cause malicious harm” to the hospital and its physicians.
And what is the “malicious harm” Haim caused? Apparently, the Justice Department believes that he inflicted “malicious harm” by letting the public know that a children’s hospital was lying when it claimed it was no longer inflicting transgender medical abuse on its minor patients and that the hospital was violating Texas law.
That is a prosecution based on politics and ideology, not the law and the interests of justice or, for that matter, of the public at large. While the prosecution continues against Dr. Haim, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-announces-second-investigation-texas-hospital-potentially-unlawfully-performing-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> an investigation into Texas Children’s Hospital for performing gender “affirming” medicine in violation of state law.
The Lonestar State has outlawed hormone replacement therapy for minors and other forms of “gender-affirming care,” if that type of mistreatment can be called “care.” AG Paxton has <a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-sues-doctor-illegally-providing-harmful-gender-transition-treatments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that “doctors who continue to provide these harmful ‘gender transition’ drugs and treatments will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
If his claim is true, Dr. Haim should be praised for exposing wrongdoing at Texas Children’s Hospital. Instead, he faces a federal criminal indictment. Sadly, the U.S. Justice Department’s view of law enforcement now appears to be driven by politics, not justice.
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Hans von Spakovsky and Sarah Parshall Perry are senior legal fellows in The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Dr. Eithan Haim

Biden-Harris DOJ Prosecutor Targets Trans Whistleblower Doctor Again

Attorney General

Doctors

Federal Government

gender ideology

Ken Paxton

Texas

As Joe Biden&#8217;s run for re-election was on the verge of collapsing this summer, an unnamed White House official briefly went off-script amid all the chaos that was unfolding in the West Wing. Speaking to a variety of news outlets, including the New York Times, the White House official announced that so-called &#8220;gender affirming surgeries&#8221; should never be conducted on children: &#8220;These surgeries should be limited to adults,&#8221; the spokesman <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/biden-administration-transgender-surgeries-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
At any other period in this country&#8217;s history, that answer would&#8217;ve been ridiculed for one simple reason: It doesn&#8217;t go nearly far enough. Doing that to someone’s body is wrong, whether the victim is an adult or not. But this summer, the White House found itself besieged by trans activists who believe that doctors should be able to mutilate childrens&#8217; bodies, without any interference from the government. There was &#8220;anxiety and concern through the trans community&#8221; over the anonymous White House official&#8217;s statement, <a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/17/biden-administration-transgender-surgeries-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Guardian.
This created a massive headache for the White House at a pretty inconvenient time. Biden was refusing to take the hint and step aside, and he was threatening to take the entire party down with him. Meanwhile, trans activists were doing their whole nails-on-a-chalkboard routine. So the White House quickly put out a new statement to shut these people up. This one was signed by Biden&#8217;s domestic policy adviser, Neera Tanden. And this time around, as the Guardian reported, the White House &#8220;reaffirmed support&#8221; for &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; surgeries on minors. At the same time, the White House claimed that these surgeries aren&#8217;t actually happening to any significant degree: “Gender-affirming surgeries are typically reserved for adults, and we believe they should be,&#8221; Tanden said.
This is a tactic we&#8217;re all very familiar with by now. The same approach was used to promote abortion, to great effect. In both cases, the Left understands that the policy they&#8217;re supporting is horrific. They also understand that sane people would throw them out of office if there was any honesty about what was actually happening. Therefore, instead of being honest, they lie about what they&#8217;re supporting — and what they&#8217;re funding. And eventually, inertia takes over. Clinton famously said abortion would be &#8220;rare.&#8221; For the Biden administration and trans activists, the claim has been that trans surgeries on children aren&#8217;t happening — and if they are happening, it&#8217;s only in the most extreme, rare cases.
Here, for example, is a &#8220;fact-check&#8221; by a CBS affiliate in Missouri, called KMOV St. Louis. This aired in May of 2023, several months before Missouri passed a law banning child butchery in hospitals. Watch as the news station declares, flatly, that no children are undergoing trans surgeries in the state:
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This is the kind of &#8220;reporting&#8221; we&#8217;ve all heard seemingly millions of times. You&#8217;re a bigot if you claim that kids are being surgically mutilated. You&#8217;re spreading &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;
Again and again, they&#8217;ll tell you it&#8217;s either not happening, or is only happening in the most rare cases. Harvard&#8217;s school of public health posted a study this summer, with <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/gender-affirming-surgeries-rarely-performed-on-transgender-youth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this headline</a>: &#8220;Gender-affirming surgeries rarely performed on transgender youth.&#8221;
The activist group called the Human Rights Campaign put out a <a href="https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/icymi-ap-debunks-extremist-claims-about-gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar lie</a>: &#8220;Surgery under the age of 18 is very rare and is decided on a case by case basis. &#8230; Gender affirming surgeries are NOT performed on children.&#8221;
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Over the past few years, there&#8217;s been some reporting showing that specific hospitals are, in fact, performing surgeries on minors in the name of &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221; Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital, for example, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9000168/pdf/jcm-11-01943.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">performed</a> at least 65 double mastectomies on children for that purpose, between 2017 and 2020. That&#8217;s documented in medical <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9000168/pdf/jcm-11-01943.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">literature</a>. And last year, The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/04/02/gender-clinic-puberty-blockers-chop-pennsylvania/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a gender clinic in Pennsylvania &#8220;offered puberty blockers to kids as young as 8, [and] surgery referrals at 14.&#8221;
The White House, trans activists, and medical associations have been able to maintain the fiction that these are extremely rare procedures — conducted by only a small handful of hospitals — because of a deliberate, large-scale media blackout on the truth. But yesterday, the group &#8220;Do No Harm,&#8221; which is an association of medical professionals, ended that blackout. They launched an online, publicly accessible database called <a href="https://stoptheharmdatabase.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Stop the Harm,&#8221;</a> which exposes the extent of child mutilation that&#8217;s occurring in hospitals across the United States.
Before I go any further, it&#8217;s important to keep in mind that this database relies on insurance claims information, which means that if anything, it&#8217;s substantially undercounting the actual number of trans surgeries that are taking place because it doesn&#8217;t capture operations that were paid for in cash. Additionally, the database doesn&#8217;t include claims paid out by Kaiser insurance — which is a huge insurer, but their data was unavailable. And on top of that, the database only captures children who received a formal gender related diagnosis.
Given those limitations, here&#8217;s what the group uncovered. Between 2019 and 2023, a minimum of 13,994 children underwent &#8220;sex change treatments.&#8221; Specifically, more than 5,700 minors had &#8220;sex change surgeries,&#8221; according to Do No Harm&#8217;s database. More than 8,500 received &#8220;hormones and puberty blockers.&#8221; And in all, more than 62,000 &#8220;sex change prescriptions&#8221; were written for minors. These procedures, in total, involved doctors billing insurance for roughly $120 million. And there&#8217;s evidence that a very small number of doctors are racking up huge bills.
A single doctor at New York&#8217;s Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, for example, billed nearly $5 million over the last four years for &#8220;sex change interventions&#8221; involving children, according to Do No Harm. A doctor at Stanford billed more than $4 million for the same purpose.
In Missouri alone, Do No Harm found that there were more than 194 minor &#8220;sex change patients&#8221; from 2019 to 2023, 44 of them received surgery, at places like St. Louis Children&#8217;s Hospital and Children&#8217;s Mercy Hospital. 151 received hormones and puberty blockers.
So that &#8220;fact-check&#8221; from the CBS affiliate KMOV that I played earlier was a straight-up lie. There wasn&#8217;t anything remotely accurate about it.
As striking as all of these numbers are, there&#8217;s another figure that&#8217;s even more astounding. If you look through the database, you&#8217;ll find that approximately 2,000 hospitals and medical facilities in this country performed some kind of gender transition, whether surgical or pharmaceutical, on a child between 2019 and 2023. Yes, thousands of hospitals and medical facilities — including some of the biggest children&#8217;s hospitals in the country — have been participating in this butchery. This is a practice that Left-wing activists say is &#8220;very rare,&#8221; if they don&#8217;t deny it&#8217;s happening entirely. But it is happening, all over the place.
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The perpetrators include the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Philadelphia, Boston&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital, the Children&#8217;s Hospital of Los Angeles, Seattle Children&#8217;s, New York University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and the Cincinnati Children&#8217;s Hospital. The list also includes smaller facilities like the University of Kentucky Children&#8217;s Hospital, the Children&#8217;s Hospital of New Orleans, and St. Luke&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital in Idaho.
Whatever you call this barbarism, there&#8217;s one word you can&#8217;t use to describe it. You can&#8217;t call it &#8220;very rare.&#8221; You also can&#8217;t deny it&#8217;s happening at all. At a minimum, thousands of hospitals and medical procedures are performing thousands of life-altering procedures on children. And some of the most powerful institutions in this country — from the government to the media — have been lying to our faces about it for years. That is now very clear. In fact, according to the American Hospital Association, there are a little more than 6,000 hospitals in the country in total. If about 2,000 have performed either surgical or pharmaceutical gender transition procedures on minors, that means a third of the hospitals in the country are involved. A third hardly qualifies as rare, much less very rare.
It&#8217;s also clear that if Kamala Harris somehow becomes the president of the United States in a couple of months, this evil is only going to accelerate. Previously on this show, I&#8217;ve played footage from the various segregated Zoom calls that have been organized independently to promote the Kamala Harris campaign. There&#8217;s White Dudes for Harris, Black Women for Harris, and so on. Now I&#8217;ve obtained footage from the &#8220;Trans Families for Harris&#8221; Zoom call. And in this call, several parents said that they support Kamala Harris because they want the ability to change their child&#8217;s gender, despite the fact that changing their child’s gender is medically impossible.
Here&#8217;s a parent named Jeff Bender, for example. He says that his 11-year-old son is now a girl who uses &#8220;she/her&#8221; pronouns, and it&#8217;s all because of the wisdom of his son&#8217;s second-grade teacher. And now Jeff is going to take his son across state lines to Illinois, which is more than three hours away — to begin so-called gender-affirming care. Watch:
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&quot;Trans Families For Harris&quot; had a Zoom call this week. This guy says that his 11 year old son started using female pronouns &quot;because of [his] second grade teacher.&quot; This is why we shouldn&#39;t &quot;limit our teachers access to our kids,&quot; he says. He&#39;s happy that his son was transed. <a href="https://t.co/9KwUVNqLDV">pic.twitter.com/9KwUVNqLDV</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1843781826575507915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So he just comes out and says that what teachers say is more important than what parents say. He&#8217;s fine with teachers telling children to disregard their parents — which is something that no teacher, much less a second-grade teacher, should be saying. 
You won&#8217;t be shocked to learn that this kind of sentiment was widely shared on this Zoom call. Another parent, a former Democrat congresswoman named Marie Newman, explained that her child was suicidal as a young teen. So she sent him to an intensive, 3-month group therapy program, with sessions lasting 12 hours per day. And just three days into this therapy camp, her son came home and realized he&#8217;s actually a girl named Evie. Watch:
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We&#8217;ve reached a point where the same people who claimed to oppose &#8220;conversion therapy&#8221; — whatever that was exactly — are now openly celebrating therapy sessions that supposedly &#8220;convert&#8221; their child into a different gender. Apparently that kind of conversion is completely fine. If you want to get indoctrinated into the LGBTQIA+ alphabet by your teacher, or your therapy camp, then that&#8217;s worth celebrating. But if anyone tells you that this is dangerous — that it puts you on the path to sterilization and life-destroying surgeries — then they&#8217;re engaging in &#8220;conversion therapy,&#8221; and they&#8217;re terrible people.
This is the kind of dishonesty and manipulation that underlies the entire gender ideology movement — and has since its inception. There&#8217;s no consistency whatsoever. It&#8217;s an ideology that can only survive by burying as much information as possible so that people don&#8217;t realize what&#8217;s actually happening. And what&#8217;s happening is that a massive industry has sprung up to monetize an unprecedented social contagion.
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The New York Times just <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/health/transgender-teenagers-cdc-survey.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that one out of every 33 high school kids now identifies as transgender. This is a massive increase in a very short period of time. As Robert Sterling <a href="https://x.com/RobertMSterling/status/1843801130666516773" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a>, the DSM-IV, which was in effect from 1994 until 2013, estimated that transsexualism affected 1 out of every 30,000 males and 100,000 females. In other words, just a decade ago, researchers were supposedly off by a factor of 1,000 about the number of people who are &#8220;transgender.&#8221; This is a social contagion. That&#8217;s clear to anyone who looks at the data. It&#8217;s also a booming industry. And a lot of so-called physicians are taking full advantage of it.
That&#8217;s why this week&#8217;s report from &#8220;Do No Harm&#8221; is so important. More Americans than ever are now aware of how widespread this agenda really is. And that is the first and most important step in achieving a goal that all sane people want, which is to protect children by shutting it all down.

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

The Media Lied About Child Gender Surgeries, And Here’s The Proof

Boston Children's Hospital

Gender Transition

WPATH

&#8220;Consensus&#8221; is a word you hear a lot these days. And when you hear it, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;re being told to keep quiet about something. For example, you might notice that celebrities are flying an awful lot for people who claim to be concerned about climate change. And you might find it odd that politicians like Barack Obama are buying up giant seaside properties if they think the oceans are about to rise and wipe entire continents off the face of the Earth. And then you might notice that average temperatures in your area haven&#8217;t changed much in the past century.
These kinds of observations might lead you to question whether man-made climate change is really a big deal, or even if it&#8217;s happening at all. And in response, you&#8217;ll be told that your questions are irrelevant. They&#8217;re an affront to science, in fact, because a consensus has already been reached among experts.
One of the effects of this kind of &#8220;consensus&#8221; is that it signals to everyone else in the field — the &#8220;experts&#8221; — that they need to fall in line immediately. Even if they disagree with the consensus view, they understand that they need to keep quiet or else they&#8217;ll face professional consequences. So a declaration of a &#8220;consensus&#8221; can quickly become self-reinforcing. To outsiders, it appears that an entire field is united when really it&#8217;s not.
That&#8217;s been the case with so-called gender-affirming care, which is the established euphemism for the sterilization and butchery of men, women and children in order to affirm their misguided conception of their own identity. Again and again, we&#8217;ve heard that there&#8217;s a &#8220;consensus&#8221; among professional medical associations that these procedures are medically necessary. Everyone from the HHS Secretary to the ACLU and the DOJ have made that claim repeatedly, in state and federal courts as well as the media. And with a handful of exceptions — virtually all of them overseas — no major professional medical association has stepped up to correct the record on this.
This week, that trend finally came to an end.
It turns out that all journalists needed to do was ask some professional medical associations about their views on gender surgeries for adolescents, and the facade of &#8220;consensus&#8221; would come crashing down. That&#8217;s exactly what <a href="https://twitter.com/LeorSapir/status/1823491617157713970" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leor Sapir</a>, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, decided to do. He reached out to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, or ASPS, which represents more than 11,000 members — and 90% of the field of plastic surgery across the U.S. and Canada. This is obviously a field that&#8217;s also deeply involved in gender-related surgeries on both adults and minors. Sapir wanted to know what ASPS thought about so-called &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; for minors.
Here&#8217;s what the society of plastic surgeons sent back.
<blockquote>ASPS has not endorsed any organization&#8217;s practice recommendations for the treatments of adolescents with gender dysphoria. ASPS currently understands that there is considerable uncertainty as to the long-term efficacy for the use of chest and genital surgical interventions for the treatment of adolescents with gender dysphoria, and the existing evidence base is viewed as low quality/low certainty.</blockquote>
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For those who asked to see the email from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons: <a href="https://t.co/QeXXmjn9rc">pic.twitter.com/QeXXmjn9rc</a>
&mdash; Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeorSapir/status/1823491617157713970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In other words, there is, in fact, no consensus among major medical organizations about any form of so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; for minors. That is a lie that&#8217;s been repeated by the Biden administration repeatedly, but it&#8217;s not true. And all it took to establish that it wasn&#8217;t true is for one fellow at the Manhattan Institute to ask the plastic surgeons&#8217; association about this. They apparently weren&#8217;t going to volunteer the information, but when asked, they&#8217;re willing to say in writing that they don&#8217;t endorse any of these alleged &#8220;treatments&#8221; for children. This is how flimsy the &#8220;consensus&#8221; on these gender experiments really is.
This admission from ASPS has massive ramifications for procedures that are underway right now in the United States. As City Journal notes, the WPATH standards — which pretty much all major hospitals follow — doesn&#8217;t specify any strict age minimum for gender surgeries. These are standards that the Biden administration has also defended in federal court. And these standards have been put into practice, apparently without the endorsement of a major medical association like ASPS.
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An analysis by the Manhattan Institute, using data from a national insurance database from 2017 to 2023, found evidence that roughly 5,000 to 6,000 double-mastectomies have been performed in this country on girls under the age of 18 in the name of so-called &#8220;gender-affirming care.&#8221; At least 50 of these girls were apparently under the age of 13. That last part bears repeating — In dozens of cases, girls under the age of THIRTEEN have had their breasts removed in order to “affirm” their gender.
These are numbers that both medical associations and politicians routinely lie about. But they&#8217;re verifiable and if anything, they&#8217;re undercounting the actual numbers of these procedures. The insurance database doesn&#8217;t capture out-of-pocket procedures at all, for example. And in some cases, there&#8217;s reason to believe that hospitals are coding these procedures to suggest that they&#8217;re not related to gender dysphoria, even when they clearly are.
For instance, as the Manhattan Institute notes, there&#8217;s been a nearly seven-fold increase in the number of so-called &#8220;nonbinary mastectomies&#8221; that have been performed on minors from 2017 to 2023. These are mastectomies that are intended to make the patient look nonbinary, whatever that means. Actually, we know what it means. It means that these are girls having their bodies permanently surgically altered to look more masculine, even though the girls do not actually even identify as boys. They identify as some other category with no clear definition at all.
The number of these procedures went from 70 in 2017, all the way up to 470 last year. And City Journal <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-consensus-no-longer#:~:text=The%20number%20of%20procedures%20grew,argue%20amounts%20to%20insurance%20fraud." target="_blank" rel="noopener">found that</a>:
<blockquote>Plastic surgeons who perform these procedures leverage the existing billing code for breast reduction &#8230; a practice some might argue amounts to insurance fraud.</blockquote>
Based on this new revelation from ASPS, insurance fraud might be the least of these doctors&#8217; problems. These procedures could also potentially amount to massive jury verdicts and settlements for medical malpractice and even intentional fraud, which isn&#8217;t covered by most provider&#8217;s insurance policies. That&#8217;s because consensus is a critical concept in medicine. If a doctor treats a patient and ends up harming the patient, it&#8217;s very hard to sue him if he can demonstrate that he was following an established standard of care that everyone agrees on. But if the doctor goes rogue, and disregards the view of major medical associations like ASPS, then there&#8217;s potentially a lot more liability at play.
As malpractice lawyer Kevin Keller told City Journal, medical providers could potentially be looking at more than $10 million in liability for individual cases involving these gender procedures — money they&#8217;d likely have to pay out of pocket.
This is an existential threat to this entire fraudulent industry. And it&#8217;s a threat that&#8217;s becoming much more pronounced lately. For several months now, there have been other signs that the house of cards that is &#8220;gender affirming care&#8221; is about to come crashing down. There was the Cass report to the National Health Service in England, which found that there&#8217;s “no good evidence” justifying any common “interventions” concerning gender identity. Then there was the ruling in the Sixth Circuit upholding Tennessee&#8217;s ban on the castration of children, over the objections of the Biden administration and the ACLU. There were also the leaked WPATH files, which exposed internal communications in which WPATH officials admitted that they didn&#8217;t know what they were doing in many cases. And there was the declaration from the American College of Pediatricians, a relatively small group which called on all major medical organizations to: 
<blockquote>&#8230; stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex.</blockquote>
All of those developments have taken place this year. That&#8217;s how quickly the alleged &#8220;consensus&#8221; in this field of &#8220;gender-affirming care&#8221; has broken down, even as the number of people who might seek to access these procedures is increasing.
Gallup just found that nearly 8% of adults currently identify as &#8220;LGBTQ+,&#8221; which is a significant jump from 5.6% just four years ago. And as the Post Millennial reports, many of these new additions to the alphabet umbrella are young people.
<blockquote>For each generation, a person is about twice as likely to identify as LGBTQ as opposed to the generation before.</blockquote>
And of course, many of these young people — particularly the ones who identify as transgender — are highly likely to seek out hormones, surgery, puberty blockers, or some combination of the three.
This is a trend that&#8217;s only possible because of a manufactured, artificial consensus of alleged experts. It&#8217;s a social contagion that has depended on the silence of people who know better. With the statement this week from the plastic surgeons&#8217; association, as unlikely as it was, any pretense of a consensus is now gone completely. It has been demolished as if it never existed — because it didn’t. For the sake of the millions of young people who are still eager to join the gender cult, this entire industry needs to meet the same fate.

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The ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ Racket Is Collapsing In Front Of Our Eyes

The 'Gender-Affirming Care' Racket Is Collapsing In Front Of Our Eyes

Gender Identity

Readers Pass

When I enlisted in the Army in 2001, I recall the part of in-processing that had me lying naked on an exam table with only a big, white sheet covering my body, tented by my knees. I was told that the physician was going to walk in, lift the sheet to observe my genitalia, and walk out. That’s exactly what he did. The U.S. Army found that my anatomy was commensurate with what is defined as “female.” In other words, sex was defined by anatomy.
Fast forward about 20 years, and I attended the September 2022 Contraceptive Technology Virtual Conference in an attempt to stay informed in my role as the clinical consultant for the Title X Family Planning Program in Kansas.
As an experienced registered nurse and public health professional trained in the fundamental truths of anatomy and biology, I was surprised when conference speakers gave preemptive apologies for using the word “woman.” When they used the word “woman,” they explained it was only to mirror the older, less politically correct research they referenced. They even made it a point to say they were aware of the offense it may cause because it did not include members of the “trans” community.
Each time I heard this, I wondered: Why are medical professionals apologizing for using the lexicon firmly established in every sphere of life—social, cultural, academic, philosophical, scientific? I realized there was a social construct to “woman,” but that didn’t contradict basic anatomy and genetics, which are visually observable.
One presenter suggested we stop using the term “women’s clinic” and begin asking patients if they are comfortable with using anatomical terms like “vagina” or if they prefer made-up terms like “front-hole.”
This is the salient point of gender ideology — the truth is irrelevant. I would go one step further and say the truth is being undermined at the behest of proclaimed authorities of inclusion and diversity.
I know I am not alone, professionally. Where are all my fellow nurses, providers, and researchers who stand on eternal truth?
More recently, I have seen guides put forth by local breastfeeding coalitions on the implementation of vocabulary that is more “inclusive,” such as “chestfeeding” in lieu of breastfeeding. All of this is to assuage a small but ever-growing percentage of people who reject biological reality and want to be something other than their actual sex.
In 2017, I was 41 years old and at a pinnacle point in my career. I was Assistant Director of Clinical Operations in a local health department and the President of the Association of Public Health Nurses (APHN). I served both of these roles while finishing my RWJF Health Policy Fellowship and working on my master’s in public health.
In the eyes of today’s high-performing culture, I was successful, but my husband’s health propelled me to a role that could accommodate the needs of my family. His health issues were unexpected, so I needed to be working closer to home.
So, that same year, I transitioned into my current role as a <a href="https://www.nationalfamilyplanning.org/title-x_title-x-key-facts#:~:text=Everyone%20who%20accesses%20family%20planning,status%2C%20or%20any%20other%20characteristic." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Title X</a> Family Planning Clinical Consultant. But I am now at a point in my life where I can no longer reconcile my values and professional role in this program.
Title X, a federal grant program to provide sexual health and family planning services, is available for all adolescents without regard to age. With this program, minors are legally allowed to access contraception, for example, without a parent or guardian. That’s right, Title X providers must keep patient information confidential from parents.
Providing education and counseling on contraceptive methods and how to prevent exposure to sexually transmitted infections is one thing. This is factual information, and it’s very straightforward. However, the services go well beyond that. Affirming an adolescent’s identity that is inconsistent with their anatomy is a dangerous treachery of the highest order because confusion and lies are being affirmed.
It doesn’t just stop with “social transitioning” for minors. Surgical and other forms of medical transitioning lead to permanent health complications and a life-long patient status. All of this sells lies to our youth. No amount of surgery or hormones will ever make a male a female or vice versa.
When big organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists release guidance on providing “gender-affirming care,” they’re giving pseudoscience a stamp of legitimacy. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it — and struggling. My job was to measure practice against nationally recognized “gold standards,” and those are changing before my eyes.
As caretakers for those struggling with dementia know, you never affirm the “worms they see crawling on the wall,” but you respond with compassion and reorient them to reality and the truth. Affirming lies only furthers their confusion and does more harm than good.
Treating people with dignity and respect because they are human beings is no longer sufficient in so-called health care. Validating and legitimizing gender identities that contradict basic anatomy and genetics are now ubiquitously suggested and, at times, outright demanded. How do they demand it? The medical establishment demands the world cede the established terms of male and female.
What happens in the medical establishment trickles down into mass culture, too. After I shared my thoughts on changing culture with a writing group, the leader suggested I look into the story of Riley Gaines. After all, the issue is the same, but it manifests differently in college sports versus health care.
Upon Googling Riley Gaines, I found Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and knew I needed to tell them about my experience. IWF isn’t just documenting the stories of female athletes like Gaines, they are providing a platform for individuals to make their voices heard on a wide range of women’s issues.
Then I discovered IWF’s <a href="https://www.iwf.org/identity-crisis-stories/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Identity Crisis</a> documentary series where detransitioners Prisha Mosley, Isabelle Ayala, and Soren Aldaco completely exposed the dangerous sequelae of gender ideology. I was angry. I remember asking myself: Where are all the sane, ethical health professionals? Why aren’t these young ladies’ parents being told the truth?
Where does this insanity end? At best, it feels like an arrogant attempt to erase the experience of half the population. At worst, it serves girls and women up as an all-you-can-eat prey buffet for men who will claim to be women — not because they truly suffer from gender dysphoria, but because they are predators seeking access to female-only spaces.
Emboldened voices scream about the injustice of appropriation when it comes to racial and ethnic groups, but where is the outcry in defense of the appropriation of women, as if dresses and makeup are the sum of the female experience? To undermine women — those who gave birth to every group, every nation, indeed the world — through imitation is a great injustice.
Yes, men plant their seed, but women are the ones who labor to grow that new human life in their womb and give birth to a human baby. It is a beautiful and elegantly simple design that honors both men and women. The medical industry I’ve been a part of for several decades used to recognize this.
I will not play the pronoun game or any gender-neutralizing tactic to mock a perfect design. I will not apologize for using the word woman. I am a woman.
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Ivonne Rivera-Newberry is a Title X Clinical Consultant for the Kansas Department of Health &amp; Environment and an experienced Registered Nurse with four decades of service to the healthcare industry.
The view expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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I’m A Registered Nurse And I’m Sounding The Alarm On Gender Ideology Deception In Medicine

American Academy of Pediatrics

Women

The doctor targeted by the Biden administration for blowing the whistle on transgender surgeries that were secretly being performed by Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital was formally indicted with federal charges this week.
Eithan Haim, who revealed himself as the whistleblower earlier this year in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-doctor-blew-the-whistle-on-his-hospitals-transgender-clinic-now-the-feds-are-trying-to-ruin-his-life">interview with The Daily Wire</a>, says three armed agents arrived at his door early Tuesday to inform him that he&#8217;s been charged with four felonies. The charges are related to alleged HIPAA violations from when Haim, as a resident of Texas Children&#8217;s Hospital, was performing so-called &#8220;gender-affirming&#8221; procedures on minors even as it publicly declared that all such activity had been halted.
Haim says there is still uncertainty about what exactly he&#8217;s being charged with — he&#8217;s been ordered to appear in court next Monday where his legal team expects to learn the extent of the charges. He has long maintained that he committed no crimes, and is being politically targeted.
&#8220;I refuse to back down or to be silenced,&#8221; Haim, a practicing surgeon in Texas, <a href="https://x.com/EithanHaim/status/1798843426731114969">posted</a> on social media Thursday night. &#8220;But to win, we enter the arena. For us that&#8217;s federal court.&#8221;
READ HAIM&#8217;S FULL STORY HERE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-doctor-blew-the-whistle-on-his-hospitals-transgender-clinic-now-the-feds-are-trying-to-ruin-his-life">A Doctor Blew The Whistle On His Hospital’s Transgender Clinic. Now The Feds Are Trying To Ruin His Life.</a>
In January, Haim told The Daily Wire that he had no regrets about coming forward to expose the transgender surgeries, saying it was his &#8220;responsibility as a doctor.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s my responsibility as a doctor, as a physician, to expose this to the public,&#8221; Haim said. &#8220;If I don’t, then this abuse can continue. I knew that future generations, like my children, would never be able to forgive me if they knew I had the chance to do something and I decided to stay silent.”
“It requires average, everyday doctors to stand up and speak out against things like this,” he said.
The indictment was <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/doj-indicts-doctor-who-exposed-the?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1248321&amp;post_id=145380307&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=30rzmr&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">first reported</a> by journalist Christopher Rufo, who was also the journalist who reported on Haim&#8217;s initial whistleblower claims. Rufo says nothing shared with him would have constituted a HIPAA violation.
&#8220;For my own part, I can confirm that nothing in the information provided to me identified any individual; all the documents were, in fact, carefully redacted,&#8221; Rufo said.
Haim initially alerted last June, on the day of his graduation from his residency, that he was the target of an investigation by Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice, according to a target letter obtained by The Daily Wire.
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Haim in January said the federal prosecution of him is political, and was determined not to back down to the federal government.
“Why should I be intimidated into silence when what we exposed was voted to become illegal, and I had not violated any privacy laws?” Haim said. “For me, it’s obvious that this is a political investigation in order to prevent this from happening at other hospitals that might be lying to the public about the existence of their programs.”
Since coming forward, Haim has <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/texas_whistleblower">raised more than $289,000</a> for his legal defense.

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It’s never a good time to be a baby who’s been exposed to drugs. But the brilliant antiracist minds at Mass General Brigham have somehow found a way to make that situation even more risky. Early this month, the Massachusetts healthcare network announced its latest gambit in the fight against racial disparity in medicine: no longer reporting instances of abuse in cases of fetal drug exposure.
The rationale for this baffling new policy? The DEI-rich language of ‘health equity.’ As per Mass General’s <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing">announcement</a>, “Black pregnant people are more likely to be drug tested and to be reported to child welfare systems than white pregnant people.” The decision was further portrayed as “the latest step in our efforts to address long-standing inequities in substance use disorder care.” But will it?
As the <a href="https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/newsroom/press-releases/updating-system-policies-perinatal-testing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">updated policy</a> reads:
<blockquote>First, the new policy requires written consent for toxicology testing of any pregnant individual or infant outside of emergent situations. At the same time, it limits toxicology testing to circumstances where results will change the medical management of the pregnant person or infant.
The policy also notes that an abuse/neglect report to state child welfare agencies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire after delivery should be filed only if there is reasonable cause to believe that the infant is suffering or at imminent risk of suffering physical or emotional injury and that ‘substance exposure’ alone, including treatment with methadone or buprenorphine for opioid use disorder, does not require a report of abuse or neglect in the absence of protective concerns for the infant.</blockquote>
Under Brigham’s no-report policies, black babies exposed to drugs can be passed over for potentially life-saving care if their mothers refuse help. How is erecting new barriers to treatment for these children a step toward any serious concept of justice?
As psychiatrist Sally Satel <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/mass-general-brigham-antiracism-maternity">notes</a>, the new policy would reduce not only the amount of reporting involved in the Boston system, but strip healthcare providers of the ability to meaningfully intervene in cases where a baby’s health appears compromised.
This is hardly the first time Brigham’s chosen to mix racial politicking with its patient care. The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as part of its United Against Racism campaign, <a href="https://www.brighamandwomens.org/about-bwh/newsroom/addressing-heart-admission-disparities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently introduced</a> a program where patient admissions to cardiac units would weigh the race of the patient, as a supposed ‘righting of the scale’ against historic health disparities.
Let’s be clear here: these practices, while perhaps palatable to the modern advocates of equity, cannot be conscionable to modern advocates of justice. Brigham has made its stand: prioritizing marginalized patient populations in a bid to right historical wrongs. Yet the obvious problem remains: Such policies attempt to right historical wrongs by risking modern ones.
The system may purport to advance ‘health equity,’ but it runs a real risk of hurting innocent children. We must evaluate these systems based on what they do, not merely on what they purport to do. To do otherwise is to adopt an uncritical perspective on equity that cedes legitimacy to unserious and dangerous solutions.
We are sometimes asked, in the name of charity and good faith, to pretend that arguments over DEI and equity-based policies are low-stakes questions. We’re told that the real diversity argument is between “validating the feelings and lived experience of people of color” or “propping up white supremacy with our complicit silence.” I’ve <a href="https://rlo.acton.org/archives/124960-the-strange-death-of-dei.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written</a> <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/14/willour-dei-oklahoma-universities-nikole-hannah-jones-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3-things-my-future-children-need-to-know-about-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">length</a> about how this isn’t the case, but the actions and results of the DEI movement speak far louder than its critics’ most pointed words.
For a further example, let’s take a closer look at Brigham’s cardiology policy. Brigham alerted physicians when a black or “Latinx” patient presented with heart failure to “educate the clinician about the fact that, historically, this population has had inequitable access to specialized cardiology care and offer a recommendation to consider changing admission.” It’s not an override of a clinician’s judgment or even a treatment prescription, meaning that it’s actually a relatively impotent policy in the aggregate. By any modern standard of DEI, it doesn’t even qualify as intersectional. But that’s actually the point — the policies that work aren’t the ones being dreamed up for ‘health equity’ brownie points.
Intersectionality, particularly in medicine, only works at the most basic level: the differentiation of the individual patient. The only morally serious option is for healthcare providers to evaluate patients based on individual history and symptoms — and avoid the kind of DEI-esque language of ‘health equity’ that makes observers and patients alike start raising questions about what forces are actually driving the boat over at Mass General Brigham.
That practical and rhetorical vision isn’t what modern DEI proponents want you to sign up for. Accepting their view of equity, in this case, means systems that risk passing over treatment for innocent children. Is that equity? It’s certainly not equality, it’s certainly not justice, and it’s not what anyone really wants for the future of American healthcare: we can’t validate people’s lived experiences if they die as babies in a maternity ward.
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Isaac Willour is an award-winning journalist focusing on race, culture, and American conservatism, as well as a corporate relations analyst at Bowyer Research. His work on race &amp; DEI has been featured at outlets including National Review, USA Today, C-SPAN, and the Daily Wire. He is a member of the Young Voices contributor program, and can be found on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/IsaacWillour">@IsaacWillour</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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