A Texas nurse says she raised the alarm about the nation’s largest children’s hospital supposedly pushing gender transitions because she believes doctors are being guided by its policy.
Vanessa Sivadge, 31, claimed she was threatened by the FBI after she revealed that progressive doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital are violating state law by using Medicaid benefits to provide sex-change treatments to minors.
In an interview with New York PostSivadge said doctors at the clinic often told parents that their children might commit suicide if they did not transition.
“These doctors are driven by a political agenda, like an ideological agenda,” he said, “and I really think they think they’re doing the right thing.”
Sivadge added: “Parents were manipulated by doctors with an ideological agenda to follow this path of medical transition for their children…
Vanessa Sivadge, 31, claimed she was threatened by the FBI after revealing that progressive doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital are violating state law by using Medicaid benefits to perform sex-change operations on minors.
“And I think doctors would use manipulative language to suggest that if they didn’t do this, their child would commit suicide or harm themselves.”
Sivadge believes doctors at the hospital misclassify gender-affirming treatments to get around Texas’ ban on Medicaid covering hormone treatments.
He said he saw doctors misdiagnosing patients with hormone deficiencies to get Medicaid coverage for puberty blockers and hormones.
Sivadge claims to have seen doctors “manipulating” parents into accepting gender transitions for their children before telling them about the long-term side effects, such as infertility.
He also said many patients had underlying problems such as autism and depression that doctors ruled out.
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.
Sivadge said doctors at the clinic often told parents that their children might commit suicide if they did not follow the path of medical gender transition.
“The doctor did things based on what the patient wanted and not what was medically best for him,” he said.
“There was just no discussion about what the risks are, what the long-term effects are…
“Many of (the patients) had previously visited the emergency room for attempted suicide, many of them are autistic, many of them are depressed and anxious, and that’s really devastating because it’s very clear that there’s something else going on besides the confusion about his sexuality. identity.’
Sivadge filed her claims in May 2023 against Texas Children’s Hospital, after Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who leaked documents showing the hospital continued to provide gender-affirming care against the law.
Texas Children’s Hospital said it would stop gender-affirming care procedures after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled in February 2022 that gender-affirming care for children could be a form of child abuse under the state law.
The nurse claims the FBI showed up at her door months after she spoke in an interview with Christopher Rufo. She shared doorbell camera footage that showed two plainclothes officers knocking on the door and asking for her.
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.
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.
Haim has since been charged with four criminal counts, as the Department of Justice accuses him of three HIPAA violations. HIPAA rules protect a person’s protected health information.
Haim responded to the charges by saying, “They wanted to intimidate me into silence using every technique the federal leviathan had at its disposal.” But they failed.
‘The only way to lose is to submit to corruption. It’s time to fight harder than ever!’
In May 2023, Haim released medical records showing that staff at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) had provided puberty blockers and other sex-change treatments to children, even after hospital officials said they had stopped do it in March 2022.
He has repeatedly said that the leaked documents did not include any personal patient information.
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.
DailyMail.com has contacted Texas Children’s Hospital for comment on this story.