A whistleblower 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 doorstep and threatened her.
Vanessa Sivadge told journalist Chris Rufo that her employer, the Texas Children's Hospital, was violating state law by using the benefits to provide sex change operations to minors.Â
She further alleged that doctors at the hospital were manipulating patients into accepting 'gender-affirming care, and said she believed that some families feared the doctors would call Child Protective Services if they dissented.
But after speaking with Rufo about what she had seen, Sivadge claimed two FBI agents showed up at her door - sharing doorbell camera footage with him showing two plain-clothes agents knocking on the door and asking for her.
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 hospital officials said they had stopped the procedures in March 2022.
Just one 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 probe.'Â
'I was given a target letter signed by a federal prosecutor that stated I was being criminally investigated for a case regarding medical records,' he said.
Haim now argues 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 that the hospital was violating state law by using Medicaid benefits to cover the gender-affirming surgeries.
Though he released private medical files that detailed trans medical procedures on children as young as 12, he says the identities of patients had been redacted.
Donations have since poured into Haim's legal defense fund, with supporters praising him for 'holding the line' and 'standing up for children' in the face of 'corruption' at the hospital.
Meanwhile, Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton said he is investigating the claims, and State Rep. Brian Harrison called for an emergency hearing over the allegations that the US Justice Department intimidated the whistleblowers.
'It is absolutely outrageous that [the] DOJ - instead of targeting the medical professionals who were abusing Texas children - is apparently protecting them by silencing those that would stand up against these abusive and illegal practices,' Harrison, a Republican, wrote in a letter to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan.
'The Texas House of Representatives must not sit idly by and allow this federal overreach to occur,' he continued.
'Texas must lead the nation in the defense of the next generation and state sovereignty.'
Harrison also shared the letter on X, writing: 'The [Texas] House must not allow the Biden Administration to aid and abet CHILD ABUSE and MEDICAID FRAUD by prosecuting whistleblowers.'Â
'I'm asking Dade Phelan to immediately hold hearings to investigate federal officials and hospital leadership,' he wrote. 'Inaction is complicity.'
DailyMail.com has reached out to the Department of Justice and Texas Children's Hospital for comment.Â
Federal officials, the Department of Justice, and Texas Children’s Hospital have some explaining to do. Instead of putting the FBI and other officials under scrutiny for Child Abuse, they focus on the Whistleblowers who are trying to stop it!
Unbelievable!
LET US PRAY
Father God, please protect our children. Help them to love and see themselves as You do, precious and made in Your image. Keep them under Your mighty wings. Show them Your lovingkindness. Lead them to Your Peace. We ask this in the Mighty Name of Jesus, the Name Above All Names. Amen.
Do NOT ever talk to the police. Nothing good can ever come of it.
No, I would not let them out unless they had a warrant or I had my lawyer the FBI has a bad reputation these days