Registered Nurse Vanessa Sivadge has been fired from the Texas Children's Hospital (TCH) after claiming to expose Medicaid fraud associated to a program providing transition-related care to minors.
Sivadge had previously backed the testimony of Dr. Eithan Haim who had, according to the National Review, exposed a program giving minors puberty blockers and hormone treatment. The revelation caused outrage in conservative circles, with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opening an investigation and the tate Legislature passing a related ban within days.
Sivadge came forward in May 2023 as an anonymous whistleblower in a story published on Christopher F. Rufo's Substack.
"I knew what Dr. Haim reported to be true because I worked in the endocrine clinic, and had first-hand knowledge of patients being prescribed puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones despite the hospital repeatedly and publicly denying the program's existence," Sivadge wrote on GiveSendGo, a website she's using to raise money for her legal defense.
According to the Texas attorney general's website, days after Sivadge's whistleblower story was published on Substack, Paxton began investigating the hospital's gender-affirming care program to see if any laws were broken.
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