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BRETT DALTON as Mark Trent Found 2.19 “Missing While a Casualty”
Here’s the thing about moral panics: They don’t require accuracy. They require momentum.
As for what all of this means for CBS, I think it’s worth looking at what The Free Press accomplished with the Jamie Reed story. It didn’t matter that local journalists found parents contradicting her claims. It didn’t matter that a former patient described a completely different experience. It didn’t matter that Washington University found her allegations unsubstantiated, or that her story contained provable medical inaccuracies. What mattered was the political goal, and on that front, The Free Press succeeded spectacularly.
Bari Weiss's Free Press published a story full of holes that led to Missouri banning trans healthcare. Now she's editor-in-chief of CBS News
Reed’s claims, laundered through Weiss’s platform and amplified by right-wing media, gave Missouri Republicans exactly what they needed: a sympathetic whistleblower, sensational allegations, and the veneer of journalistic credibility. Attorney General Bailey used Reed’s affidavit to justify an “emergency rule” severely restricting gender-affirming care. Lawmakers cited her story while passing SB 49, which banned trans youth from accessing puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery. The legislation also prohibited Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care for people of any age. The Washington University Transgender Center, facing what it called “unsustainable liability,” stopped providing care to minors. Families who’d been receiving treatment for years suddenly had nowhere to go. Some left the state entirely. And The Free Press? Never issued a correction. Never followed up on the contradictory accounts from parents and patients. Never addressed the fact that their star whistleblower had serious credibility problems that were evident even at the time — like her choice of legal representation. ... This is the playbook. Find a sympathetic source making explosive claims. Publish them without meaningful verification. Let right-wing media amplify it. Watch as Republicans use it to justify legislation. Never acknowledge when the story falls apart. Rinse and repeat. The difference now is that Weiss won’t just be doing this for a subscription newsletter. She’ll be doing it with the full weight and credibility of CBS News behind her.
The liberal case for rethinking gender medicine
Directed by journalist Jennifer Block, produced with filmmaker Eric Vaughan, this doc short goes inside what is possibly the most heated and divisive issue of our time. We explore troubling revelations about how the medical guidelines for gender treatments in youth, which physicians trust and follow, which are presented to patients and families as vetted and sound, and which the media and wider public interpret as settled science, were not developed with scientific rigor or honesty. In fact there is hard evidence of direct political meddling—by the same physician leaders who have reassured the public over and over again that this life altering protocol is evidence based. While this topic is often presented as a right-left issue, we follow a broad coalition of activists who are calling out their concerns.
Podcast Episode · Beyond Gender · 22 November 2025 · 1hr 11min
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Dr. Eithan Haim, a former medical resident at Texas Children's Hospital, was indicted in May for allegedly illegally accessing trans patient
Alyssa Tirrell at MMFA:
Dr. Eithan Haim, a former medical resident at Texas Children's Hospital, was indicted in May for allegedly illegally accessing trans patients’ records, which he subsequently shared with Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo. Right-wing media figures have since defended Haim and brought him in for interviews, often equating the care allegedly provided at Texas Children's Hospital — such as the prescription of "puberty blockers" — with harm or mutilation and alleging that Haim is the target of political persecution. The campaign has successfully raised both Haim's profile and at least $888,865, which he claims will be used for both his legal defense and “offensive legal action against those who have abused their professional responsibility in service of radical transgender ideology.”
Haim allegedly illegally accessed trans patients’ records
On February 18, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion that qualified youth gender-affirming care as "child abuse", prompting Texas Children's Hospital to announce that it would stop proving such care. Although the opinion was not legally binding, the hospital released a statement announcing that it would stop prescribing gender-affirming hormone therapies. The statement, which also alluded to recent measures that Gov. Greg Abbott had taken against families of children receiving gender-affirming care, added that “this step was taken to safeguard our healthcare professionals and impacted families from potential legal ramifications.” [Office of the Attorney General of Texas, 2/18/22; American Civil Liberties Union, 2/23/22; The Washington Post, 3/8/22]
In late spring 2023, Dr. Eithan Haim allegedly accessed the records of trans patients at Texas Children's Hospital and shared them with Manhattan Institute senior fellow Chris Rufo. Haim, a resident at Baylor College of Medicine who had previously conducted rotations at Texas Children's Hospital, shared redacted files with Rufo that allegedly demonstrated that the hospital was continuing to provide gender-affirming services to minors. [Houston Public Media, 6/10/24; U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas, 6/17/24; United States District Court of the Southern District of Texas, 5/29/24]
On June 2, 2023, a Texas bill restricting gender-affirming care for children was signed into law. S.B. 14 prohibited “the provision to certain children of procedures and treatments for gender transitioning, gender reassignment, or gender dysphoria” as well as “the use of public money or public assistance to provide those procedures and treatments.” The law went into effect on September 1 of that year. [Texas legislature, 6/2/23]
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Right-wing media figures platformed Haim in solo interviews, where he defended himself
Since January 2024, with the revelation of his identity, Eithan Haim has appeared as a guest alongside many prominent right-wing media figures. In these interviews Haim neither claimed to have worked directly with trans patients nor disputed sharing the documents with Chris Rufo. Instead, Haim often alleged that he was being unfairly targeted and defended his case on the grounds that the care allegedly provided at Texas Children's Hospital was harmful to pediatric patients.
Right-wing media defend Dr. Eithan Haim’s HIPAA-violating ways of illegally accessing trans patients’ records while at Texas Children’s Hospital in which he shared those records with far-right anti-LGBTQ+ agitator Christopher Rufo.