Whistleblower nurse who accused largest children's hospital in U.S of illegally using benefits to give kids free sex change operations says FBI issued threats on her doorstop

A whistleblower caregiver who accused the largest children's infirmary successful the US of illegally utilizing Medicaid to connection children escaped enactment alteration operations claims the FBI showed up astatine her doorstep and threatened her.

Vanessa Sivadge told writer Chris Rufo that her employer, the Texas Children's Hospital, was violating authorities instrumentality by utilizing the benefits to supply enactment alteration operations to minors. 

She further alleged that doctors astatine the infirmary were manipulating patients into accepting 'gender-affirming care, and said she believed that immoderate families feared the doctors would telephone Child Protective Services if they dissented.

But aft speaking with Rufo astir what she had seen, Sivadge claimed 2 FBI agents showed up astatine her doorway - sharing doorbell camera footage with him showing 2 plain-clothes agents knocking connected the doorway and asking for her.

As she approached the men, 1 of the agents began asking her astir her work.

'I'm definite you're alert of immoderate of the things that person been going connected astatine your enactment lately,' helium says successful the video, which Rufo shared to X.

When she replies that she is, the cause past asks if helium could travel wrong to 'let maine bash my opus and dance.'

From there, Sivadge claims the agents began to endanger her. 

'They threatened me,' she told Rufo. 'They promised they would marque beingness hard for maine if I was trying to support the leaker. They said I was 'not safe' astatine enactment and claimed that idiosyncratic astatine my workplace had fixed my sanction to the FBI.'

Sivadge is present the 2nd worker astatine Texas Children's Hospital to marque specified claims.

Last year, Dr. Ethan Haim - a surgeon who completed his residency astatine the hospital - leaked documents showing that TCH unit had provided puberty blockers and different sex-change treatments to children, adjacent aft infirmary officials said they had stopped the procedures successful March 2022.

Just 1 period aft leaking the documents, Haim said helium received a sound connected his doorway from FBI agents who handed him a missive identifying him arsenic a 'potential target' successful a national probe.' 

'I was fixed a people missive signed by a national authoritative that stated I was being criminally investigated for a lawsuit regarding aesculapian records,' helium said.

Haim present argues that specified tactics are a 'blatant effort astatine governmental intimidation,' claiming the prosecution is 'driven by a highly ideological part wrong the Department of Health and Human Services.'

Officials question to 'silence whistleblowers who exposure institutionalized aesculapian corruption and the dangers of these hormone-based interventions for confused, teen children,' helium said.

Haim has present been indicted connected 4 counts of violating HIPPA aesculapian privateness laws, but helium insists helium did thing wrong.

Though helium released backstage aesculapian files that elaborate trans aesculapian procedures connected children arsenic young arsenic 12, helium says the identities of patients had been redacted.

Donations person since poured into Haim's ineligible defence fund, with supporters praising him for 'holding the line' and 'standing up for children' successful the look of 'corruption' astatine the hospital.

Meanwhile, Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton said helium is investigating the claims, and State Rep. Brian Harrison called for an exigency proceeding implicit the allegations that the US Justice Department intimidated the whistleblowers.

'It is perfectly outrageous that [the] DOJ - alternatively of targeting the aesculapian professionals who were abusing Texas children - is seemingly protecting them by silencing those that would basal up against these abusive and amerciable practices,' Harrison, a Republican, wrote successful a missive to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan.

'The Texas House of Representatives indispensable not beryllium idly by and let this national overreach to occur,' helium continued.

'Texas indispensable pb the federation successful the defence of the adjacent procreation and authorities sovereignty.'

Harrison besides shared the missive connected X, writing: 'The [Texas] House indispensable not let the Biden Administration to assistance and abet CHILD ABUSE and MEDICAID FRAUD by prosecuting whistleblowers.' 

'I'm asking Dade Phelan to instantly clasp hearings to analyse national officials and infirmary leadership,' helium wrote.

'Inaction is complicity.' 

DailyMail.com has reached retired to the Department of Justice and Texas Children's Hospital for comment.