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In U.S. v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme court upheld Tennessee’s ban on transgender treatments for minors. Dr. Eithan Haim, who exposed a program at the Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) that would “manipulate, mutilate, and sterilize healthy young children,” called out the procedures, championed by dissenting justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The notion that children who “identify” as a different gender should be allowed to take puberty blockers, is “sheer medical lunacy,” Dr. Haim contended. “It is not real. It has no basis in objective, observable reality. . . It has as much legitimacy as your local Voodoo witch doctor – like using a rabbit’s foot to treat a hemorrhaging carotid artery.” It would also “be like saying a patient without cancer but ‘identifies as having cancer’ is being discriminated against because a doctor is refusing to give them chemotherapy.”
Instead of pursing the child-abusers, the Biden DOJ targeted the whistleblower, launching a case that could have landed Dr. Haim in prison for 10 years. The surgeon compared the action to “initiating a murder investigation without checking if the person is still alive.” In testimony to a House Judiciary Committee subcommittee in April, Dr. Haim provided more detail, calling out Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani as the “driving force” of the prosecution.
In February 2022, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote an opinion stating that transgender medical interventions on minors could constitute criminal child abuse. In March 2022, TCH claimed they had shut down their transgender program because of “potential criminal legal ramifications.” According to Dr. Haim, this was a “blatant lie” because days after the statement “TCH doctors surgically implanted a puberty blocker in an 11-year old child.”
Dr. Haim bypassed child protective services “because I never saw evidence that they actually protected children.” He sent information to Christopher Rufo of City Journal that the transgender program was still alive, taking care to redact all patient information. Within 24 hours of Rufo’s May 16, 2023 story, the Texas senate passed a measure making transgender measures on minors illegal.
On June 23, 2023, the day Haim graduated from surgical training, “two armed agents” showed up at his residence charging that he had violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Since he had not violated the act, Haim knew that the investigation was “misguided.”
Alamdar Hamdani assigned the case to Assistant U.S. Attorney Tina Ansari who, Haim testified, “explicitly admitted to not reviewing the evidence before sending armed agents to my home” and “had no idea what she was investigating.” As Haim learned, “Ansari was practicing without a valid bar license,” a possible felony. Ansari stepped down from the case, replaced by assistant U.S. attorney Jessica Feinstein, who moved for a gag order. The case dragged on and Haim rang up $1 million in legal fees.
After Trump took office, Haim testified, “Feinstein and the DOJ accelerated their prosecution against me. They made clear they intended to push this case to trial in February 2025 despite President Trump’s executive order ending the weaponization of the federal government.”
After Trump’s inauguration, Alamdar Hamdani resigned and on January 24, 2025, the Southern District of Texas dismissed the case. As it turned out the “driving force” of the bogus prosecution was ideally suited for the task.
Hamdani’s parents, Shia Muslims from the Indian state of Gujurat, moved to England where Alamdar was born in 1971 or 1972, according to Wikipedia. When Hamdani was 11 the family moved to Texas, where Alamdar earned a JD at the University of Houston. The attorney “rarely visited a mosque unless cajoled by his parents,” but the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, “clarified his professional goals.” A “backlash against South Asians, Arabs and Muslims,” moved him to undertake civil–rights work. Trouble is, that backlash has an existential problem.
After 9/11, President George Bush proclaimed “the face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is about. Islam is peace.” After the worst attack on American since Pearl Harbor, anyone less that worshipful of Muslims was smeared as “Islamophobic.” Hamdani joined the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) explaining that “just because I worship a god named Allah doesn’t mean the 1st, 4th, 5th amendment don’t apply.” As he had to know, nobody ever contended that they didn’t apply.
Hamdani’s clients included Kobie Diallo Williams, also known as Abdul Kabir, who plotted with Adnan Babar Mirza, a Pakistani national living illegally in the USA, to join the Taliban and fight against American forces. Hamdani contended that Williams “made a grave mistake,” which is not the same as a crime. That was in 2006 and two years later Hamdani hired on with the DOJ. From 2012 to 2014, he served as deputy chief of the Counterterrorism Section of the DOJ’s National Security Division.
It’s not clear which terrorist attacks, if any, Hamdani played a role in averting, or cases where he prosecuted those responsible. It’s also hard to find cases of Alamdar Hamdani openly condemning the Islamic terrorist attacks at Fort Hood (2009), the Boston Marathon (2013), San Bernardino (2015), and Orlando in 2016, with massive loss of innocent lives. So no surprise that the Biden appointee ignored the institutionalized manipulation, mutilation and sterilization of children.
Alamdar Hamdani preferred to target Dr. Eithan Haim, the brave physician who called out the “sheer medical lunacy” that was official policy under Joe Biden. See also the case of whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge, the TCH pediatric nurse who had the same FBI agents show up at her door.
Pam Bondi and Kash Patel need to focus on actual criminals and terrorists. In the wake of Midnight Hammer, Islamic terrorists are certain to be active in the USA and abroad.
