Nurse reveals why she blew whistle on America’s biggest children’s hospital pushing transgender surgeries on kids

A Texas nurse says she has sounded the alarm about the country’s largest children’s hospital encouraging gender transitions because she believes doctors are guided by their politics.

Vanessa Sivadge, 31, has claimed she was threatened by the FBI after revealing that progressive doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital broke state law by using Medicaid benefits to offer gender reassignment treatments to minors.

In an interview with the New York PostSivadge said doctors at the clinic often told parents that their children could commit suicide if they did not take the path of medical gender transition.

“These doctors are driven by a political agenda, some kind of ideological agenda,” she said, “and I really believe they think they’re doing the right thing.”

Sivadge added: “Parents were manipulated by doctors with an ideological agenda to pursue this path of medical transition for their child…

“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 that doctors at the hospital are miscategorizing gender-affirming treatments to get around Texas’s Medicaid ban on hormone treatments.

She said she saw doctors misdiagnose patients with hormone deficiencies in order to get Medicaid coverage for puberty blockers and hormones.

Sivadge claims she has seen doctors ‘manipulate’ parents into agreeing to sex changes for their children, before informing them of long-term side effects such as infertility.

She also said many patients had underlying problems, such as autism and depression, that were dismissed by doctors.

Vanessa Sivadge, a nurse who claimed Texas Children’s Hospital provided free gender reassignment surgery 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 could commit suicide if they did not take the path of medical gender transition.

“The doctor would do things based on what the patient wanted, not what was medically best for them,” she said.

‘There was just no discussion about what the risks are, what the long-term effects are…’

‘A lot of [the patients] have been to the emergency room before for a suicide attempt, 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 their sexual identity.’

Sivadge came forward with her claims against Texas Children’s Hospital in May 2023 — following Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon who leaked documents showing the hospital was continuing gender-affirming care in violation of the law.

Texas Children’s Hospital said it would halt 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 state law.

The nurse claims the FBI showed up at her door months after she said something in an interview with Christopher Rufo. She shared doorbell camera footage showing two plainclothes officers knocking on the door and asking for her.

As she approached the men, one of the officers began asking her about her work.

“I’m sure you’re aware of some things that have been happening at work lately,” he says in the video, which Rufo shared with X.

When she responds that it is, the officer asks if he can come in and “let me do my song and dance.”

From that point on, Sivadge claims the officers began threatening her.

“They threatened me,” she told Rufo. ‘They promised they would make my life difficult if I tried to protect the leak. They said I wasn’t safe at work and claimed 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 it said it had stopped.

Haim has since been indicted on four criminal charges as he is accused by the Department of Justice of three HIPAA violations. HIPAA rules protect an individual’s protected health information.

Haim responded to the accusations, saying, “They wanted to silence me using every technique the federal leviathan had at their disposal. But they failed.

‘The only way to lose is to submit to corruption. It’s time to fight back harder than ever!’

Haim released medical records in May 2023 showing that staff at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) had provided puberty blockers and other gender reassignment treatments to children, even after hospital officials said they had stopped doing so in March 2022.

He has repeatedly said that the leaked documents did not contain any patient’s personal information.

Donations have since flowed into Haim’s legal defense fund, with supporters praising him for “holding the line” and “standing up for children” despite the “corruption” at the hospital.

Meanwhile, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he is investigating the claims, and state Rep. Brian Harrison called for an emergency hearing into allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice intimidated the whistleblowers.

DailyMail.com has contacted Texas Children’s Hospital for comment on this story.