A Dallas area doctor suggested that Dallas ISD officials be fired for their involvement in a school resource document that advised students on how to transition genders.
Eithan Haim, a general surgeon, went public last week as the doctor who leaked documents at Texas Children’s Hospital in May proving it administered transgender hormones after promising not to do so. He said Dallas ISD is similarly obsessed with promoting transgender procedures, noting a story in The Dallas Express that exposed how the district had published a resource guide that instructs how to transition genders.
“People need to be fired,” he said while speaking with The Dallas Express. “That’s what needs to happen. Whoever was in charge of sending those materials should be fired.”
The district’s “LGBTQ+ Resources for Dallas ISD & Surrounding Communities” also recommended books for elementary students on transgender children. It listed two local transgender clinics as resources for “gender-affirming care.”
“If there’s no accountability for the people who abuse their authority, then it’s just going to keep happening,” Haim told The Dallas Express.
Robyn Harris, the executive director of Dallas ISD’s communications team, initially told DX that the document was only available at the request of parents and school employees.
But further investigation revealed that the document was public and openly touted by the district as being for “parents, staff, and students alike.” The district then declined to give further comment and made the document private as it gained national attention, as DX reported.
Haim said this response draws similarities to the Texas Children’s Hospital’s handling of the debate over whether minors should have access to transgender procedures.
The hospital said in March that it would stop transgender procedures after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion that described them as child abuse. However, documents leaked by Haim showed they continued to administer hormone inhibitors and cross-gender hormones.
“The nature of the Dallas ISD response sheds light on the nature of the controversy,” Haim told DX. “Once it was made public, they immediately took down the resources and backtracked. They made no attempt to defend what they were doing.”
Haim worked at Texas Children’s Hospital last year as a resident doctor at Baylor College of Medicine. He now works in the Dallas area as a surgeon.
“It’s the same thing that happens in hospitals,” he continued. “If you’re not willing to defend to the public and take it down immediately, then there’s obviously a major problem.”
The Dallas ISD resource page was co-written by Devyn Box, a transgender social worker in Texas who provides reference letters for sex alteration surgeries. Haim said the decision to give such authority to Box is the result of a dangerous echo chamber in the district.
“To have someone who advertises a pipeline to surgery is insane,” Haim told DX.
Haim revealed last week that federal agents appeared at his house to inform him he was under investigation weeks after he anonymously leaked the hospital documents. Leading the crusade appears to be Tina Ansari, assistant U.S. attorney, who signed a letter sent to Haim stating he was the subject of an investigation into “federal law violations.”
Still, Haim emphasized that this pressure will not stop him from speaking out on the issue.
Parents, he said, need to similarly speak up on the transgender issue and demand transparency from their schools. He noted a similar instance of pushback from federal authorities when the FBI investigated parents who spoke up at school board meetings in 2021. The only way to get results, he said, is to dissent with truth.
“The people in leadership are so far gone that the expression of a dissenting point of view is met with such visceral anger and resistance that any light expression is destroyed outright,” he concluded.