FBI agents appeared at the house of a nurse who blew the whistle on a child gender transition program at Texas Children’s Hospital, according to a report by Chris Rufo in the City Journal.
The nurse, Vanessa Sivadge, saw that children were increasingly being treated for gender dysphoria at the hospital in 2021. The “transgender children” treated at the hospital had underlying conditions such as depression, anxiety, and other psychological conditions. Rather than addressing these issues, doctors prescribed children with means of “gender-affirming care.”
Sivadge believed doctors participating in the gender program were “manipulating” patients into accepting the gender care, Rufo described, adding that the nurse was under the impression that families feared Child Protective Services would become involved if they refused the “gender-affirming care.”
After Sivadge voiced these concerns to the journalist, FBI agents made a visit to her house.
The agents asked the nurse about “some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately,” and requested to “sit down” with her.
Sivadge told Rufo that the FBI claimed she was a “person of interest” in an investigation targeting the whistleblower who exposed the hospital’s sex-change program. She said that the agents “threatened” her.
“They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker,” Sivadge said. “They said I was ‘not safe’ at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI.”
Some time after the FBI visitation, Sivadge noticed that doctors at the hospital were potentially violating the law. In the state of Texas, hospitals cannot bill Medicaid for transgender surgeries; Sivadge, however, believed there were a number of children receiving “gender-affirming care” through Medicaid programs.
The story comes as another Texas Children’s Hospital doctor, Eithan Haim, has been indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on four felony charges after similarly exposing the hospital’s transgender program.
He wrote on X that he had “three heavily armed agents at my door” to inform him that he was “indicted with four felonies…for blowing the whistle about the largest children’s hospital in the world lying to the public about their transgender program.”
Haim leaked sex change documents to Rufo last year, although he did not reveal private patient information.
According to a press release on the matter, Haim faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted and a a $250,000 maximum fine.
