I HAD BEEN ASSURED THIS KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENED: Whistleblowers Risk Everything To Expose Shocking Practices At Texas Children’s Hospital.

Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston is the largest children’s hospital in the world. They treat more than four million patients under the age of 21 every year, most of them minors. And because of the hospital’s size and prestige, what happens at TCH doesn’t just affect those patients. What happens at TCH also influences how other major children’s hospitals all around the country conduct their operations.

That’s what makes the reporting out of Texas Children’s Hospital this year — most of it done by Chris Rufo — impossible to ignore. In the span of a little over a year, two whistleblowers have come forward to allege that TCH is systemically deceiving the public and potentially violating the law.

The first whistleblower, a general surgeon named Eithan Haim, provided records to Rufo which demonstrated that TCH had not, in fact, shut down its child sex-change program as promised. This was significant because the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, had just released a legal opinion stating that child sex-change surgeries — as well as cross-sex hormone treatments — constitutes child abuse under Texas law. So TCH claimed that they shut the program down in order to avoid prosecution.

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