The decision by federal prosecutors came at a time when President Trump was rolling back protections for transgender people.

Eithan Haim was accused of leaking health records of patients at Texas Children’s Hospital. Haim, who calls himself a whistleblower, had pleaded not guilty.

Dr. Eithan Haim of Dallas had faced four counts for wrongfully disclosing the individually identifiable health information of underage patients at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston.

Federal prosecutors have dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren’t under his care.

The federal case against a Texas doctor accused of illegally leaking that a Houston hospital was secretly performing transgender surgeries on kids was dropped Friday — weeks before trial was set to begin.

U.S. prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against a Texas doctor and self-described whistleblower on transgender care for minors, who was accused of illegally gaining access to records about patients not under his care at Texas Children's Hospital.