A whistleblowing nurse who accused America’s largest children’s hospital of illegally using Medicaid benefits to offer children free sex-change operations claims the FBI showed up at her door and threatened her.
Vanessa Sivadge told journalist Chris Rufo that her employer, Texas Children’s Hospital, was violating state law by using benefits to perform sex-change operations on minors.
Additionally, she alleged that doctors at the hospital were manipulating patients into accepting “gender-affirming care” and said she believed some families feared doctors would call Child Protective Services if they disagreed.
But after speaking with Rufo about what he had seen, Sivadge claimed that two FBI agents showed up at his door and shared doorbell camera footage with him that showed two plainclothes agents knocking on the door and asking for it.
Vanessa Sivadge, a nurse who alleged that Texas Children’s Hospital was offering free sex-change operations for minors, claimed FBI agents showed up at her door after she blew the whistle.
As he approached the men, one of the officers began to ask him about his job.
“I’m sure you’re aware of some of the things that have been happening at your job lately,” he says in the video, which Rufo shared with X.
When she says yes, the agent asks if he can come in to “let me sing and dance.”
From there, Sivadge claims the officers began threatening her.
“They threatened me,” he told Rufo. ‘They promised me they would make my life difficult if I tried to protect the leaker. They said I wasn’t safe at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI.’
Sivadge is now the second Texas Children’s Hospital employee to make such claims.
She shared doorbell camera footage showing plainclothes officers at her door.
Last year, Dr. Ethan Haim, a surgeon who completed his residency at the hospital, leaked documents showing that TCH staff had provided puberty blockers and other sex-change treatments to children, even after the Hospital officials said they had stopped procedures in March 2022.
Just a month after leaking the documents, Haim said he received a knock on his door from FBI agents who handed him a letter identifying him as a “potential target” in a federal investigation.
“I was given a target letter signed by a federal prosecutor that said I was being criminally investigated for a case involving medical records,” he said.
Haim now maintains that such tactics are a “blatant attempt at political intimidation,” claiming the prosecution is “driven by a highly ideological division within the Department of Health and Human Services.”
Officials seek to “silence whistleblowers who expose institutionalized medical corruption and the dangers of these hormone-based interventions for confused adolescent children,” he said.
Sivadge claimed the hospital was violating state law by using Medicaid benefits to cover gender-affirming surgeries.
She further alleged that doctors were bullying parents into allowing their children to undergo gender affirmation surgery.
Haim has now been charged with four counts of violating HIPPA medical privacy laws, but insists he did nothing wrong.
Although he released private medical records detailing trans medical procedures on children as young as 12, he says the patients’ identities had been redacted.
Donations have since poured into Haim’s legal defense fund, and his supporters praise him for “holding the line” and “defending the children” against “corruption” at the hospital.
Meanwhile, Texas state Attorney General Ken Paxton said he is investigating the allegations, and state Rep. Brian Harrison called for an emergency hearing into allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice intimidated whistleblowers.
Dr. Eithan Haim also claimed that FBI agents approached him at his door after he leaked documents showing that the hospital continued to perform sex-change operations after he said he had stopped performing them.
State Rep. Brian Harrison Calls on Texas House to Investigate Allegations
“It is absolutely outrageous that (the) Department of Justice – instead of attacking medical professionals who abused Texas children – is apparently protecting them by silencing those who oppose these abusive and illegal practices,” wrote Harrison, a Republican , in a letter to the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Dade Phelan.
“The Texas House of Representatives should not stand by and allow this federal overreach to occur,” he continued.
“Texas must lead the nation in defending the next generation and state sovereignty.”
Harrison also shared the letter about
“I call on Dade Phelan to immediately hold hearings to investigate federal officials and hospital leadership,” he wrote. “Inaction is complicity.”
DailyMail.com has contacted the Department of Justice and Texas Children’s Hospital for comment.
