These doctors knew their research was bogus,

but that didn't stop them from saying publicly that this was legitimate research.

And as a doctor, that's a big deal, because that means it was done so knowingly.

Dr. Aiton Haim was working as a resident surgeon at the Texas Children's Hospital

when he discovered that doctors were secretly continuing and even expanding their program

of gender-affirming care for minors after publicly shutting it down.

Dr. Haim blew the whistle and ended up under federal investigation.

You had an entire team of prosecutors, FBI agents, HHS agents.

They had spent hundreds of hours.

I mean, I can't even imagine how many millions of dollars of taxpayer money to prosecute me for something that was fundamentally not a crime.

After three failed indictments in over 148 legal files, his case has now been dismissed.

They never thought that this was going to go very far, but they just knocked on the wrong door and they chose me as a target.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.

You may have noticed it's Shen Yun season again,

but I wanted to tell you a little bit personally about why I love this show and go see it every year.

Aside from being beautiful, it's actually a homegrown American dream success story. All things from traditional China were under attack during the Cultural Revolution and

have kind of really remained that way since. And traditional Chinese dance was almost destroyed,

but parts of it actually survived. So what the Shen Yun people did is in upstate

New York they brought together the people that actually remembered what it was all

about and kind of rekindled it put it back together rebirthed it in upstate New York

they started with one company in 2006 today there's eight of them touring the world. A million

people see it every year. I mean, just think about that. In under 20 years, pulling your boots up,

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