CV NEWS FEED // The Biden administration sent a pair of FBI agents to the home of a nurse who asserted that staff at her hospital were committing Medicaid fraud in order to subject children to illicit “transgender” procedures.
“According to a new whistleblower, doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital [TCH] were willing to falsify medical records and break the law to keep practicing ‘gender-affirming care,’” scholar Christopher Rufo wrote in City Journal Tuesday.
This whistleblower, Rufo noted, is Vanessa Sivadge, “a registered nurse at [TCH] who has worked extensively with the hospital’s ‘transgender’ patients.”
Sivadge told Rufo that TCH, America’s largest children’s hospital, “is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures.”
“It is evident that the hospital continues to believe it is above the law not just by concealing the existence of their transgender medicine program from the public, but by stealing from the federal government,” the nurse explained.
In a Tuesday post to X (formerly Twitter), Rufo called the story a “massive scandal.”
During her tenure at TCH, Sivadge “taught a child how to inject sex-change hormones,” Rufo wrote in a subsequent X post. “Then she realized she was participating in ‘deeds of evil and darkness.’”
Rufo clarified that Sivadge “was the anonymous whistleblower who denounced TCH’s child sex-change program in an interview with me last year.”
“After that, she says, the FBI sent two agents to her home to intimidate and threaten her,” he noted.
Rufo posted to X a 47-second video of the beginning of this encounter. The video appeared to be taken by the Sivadges’ doorbell camera.
The clip shows that when Sivadge came to the door, one of the FBI agents acknowledged that he was “interrupting dinner.”
“I’m sure you’re aware of some of the things that have been going on at your work,” the agent said to the nurse.
“With regards to?” Sivadge asked him.
The agent then asked to “sit down for a minute” and do his “song and dance.” At this point, the video cut out.
“This is where we are now,” Rufo said in response to the FBI’s visit to Sivadge’s family home. “The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes ‘transgender medicine.’”
Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian, noted on X that the office of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton determined the “transgender” procedures TCH staff performed on minors amounted to child abuse.
Harrison called on the Texas House to “immediately convene hearings, launch investigations, and issue subpoenas.”
Rufo agreed in a reply to Harrison: “We need immediate action. This is a scandal and the State of Texas needs to step in.”
The news of Sivadge’s encounter with the FBI broke one day after the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed its indictment against her former co-worker Dr. Eithan Haim.
Haim, a surgeon, was another whistleblower who helped expose TCH’s illicit “transgender clinic” for subjecting minors to so-called “gender-affirming care.”
Indicted earlier this month, Haim faces up to a decade in prison if convicted.
Rufo wrote in City Journal: “This is a story of fanaticism, hubris, and the murky business of transgender medicine.”
“It would have remained hidden, except for the courage of two people inside the hospital, a surgeon named Eithan Haim and a nurse [Sivadge] who has now decided to come forward,” Rufo added. “Both have risked much to alert the public to the barbarism that is occurring at the nation’s largest, and arguably most prestigious, children’s hospital.”
This is not the first time the Biden administration has been scrutinized for its use of the FBI and the DOJ against individuals who hold views on social issues such as “transgenderism” and abortion that contradict the administration’s.
Notably, Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck had faced a prison sentence of up to 11 years following an indictment by Biden’s DOJ. The FBI dramatically raided Houck’s home while his wife and seven children were asleep. Houck was eventually acquitted of all charges.
