(LifeSiteNews) — The U.S. attorney tasked with prosecuting a Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) whistleblower was temporarily suspended by the State Bar of Texas but continued to work for the prosecution while her license to practice law was invalid in violation of the law.
Last year, Manhattan Institute journalist and New College of Florida board member Christopher Rufo interviewed a then-anonymous former TCH employee who said the hospital’s activist Dr. Richard Roberts did not hesitate to prescribe cross-sex hormones and mastectomies to gender-confused children whose medical records indicated “serious mental health issues” including autism.
That whistleblower, now known to be former TCH general surgeon Dr. Eithan Haim, was indicted in June by the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ), ostensibly for sharing confidential patient records in violation of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) – even though the materials he exposed were not patient charts and were redacted to preserve patients’ anonymity. Haim faces up to 10 years in prison.
“It’s my responsibility as a doctor, as a physician, to expose this to the public,” Haim said at the time. “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.”
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National Review reports that Tina Ansari, who has been leading the Haim prosecution, was actually suspended by the Texas Bar from September 1 to September 18 for failure to pay her dues. While the issue has been resolved and her eligibility to practice law in Texas is active again as of September 19, she continued to work on the case during her suspension, including signing and filing a September 9 brief and lending her signature to several other filings and communications, all without appearing to notify the court or her superiors.
This, NR legal analyst Ed Whelan notes, violates Rule 3.A of the Rules of Discipline of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, which requires any “lawyer who receives a suspension” to “immediately cease practicing before this court,” as well as DOJ’s own governing memo that requires attorneys to “take all necessary and appropriate steps to notify tribunals and temporarily reassign the employee from representational duties, counseling, and advisory work.”
“Ansari obviously did not ‘immediately cease practicing’ before the Southern District of Texas,” Whelan writes. “By not immediately informing the Southern District of Texas of her suspension (something that her duty of candor would seem to require), Ansari has also prevented it from suspending her.”
In response, Haim’s attorneys have filed a motion for the court to “enter a show cause order against Ms. Tina Ansari for engaging in the practice of law with a suspended law license,” as well as “strike all pleadings from the record containing her signature block during the time of suspension.”
A large body of evidence demonstrates that “affirming” gender confusion carries serious harms, especially when done with impressionable children who lack the mental development, emotional maturity, and life experience to consider the long-term ramifications of the decisions being pushed on them or full knowledge about the long-term effects of life-altering, physically transformative, and often irreversible surgical and chemical procedures.
Studies find that more than 80% of children suffering gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence and that “transition” procedures, including “reassignment” surgery, fail to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
Many oft-ignored “detransitioners,” individuals who attempted to live under a different “gender identity” before embracing their sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject, many of whom take an activist approach to their profession and begin cases with a predetermined conclusion in favor of “transitioning.”
So-called “gender-affirming” physicians have also been caught on video admitting to more old-fashioned motives for such procedures, as with an 2022 exposé about Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s “Clinic for Transgender Health,” where Dr. Shayne Sebold Taylor said outright that “these surgeries make a lot of money.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office has said it is investigating charges that Roberts and TCH’s Dr. David Paul were prescribing cross-sex hormones to children while enrolled in the state Medicaid program, in apparent violation of state law.