A nurse, who is a dedicated follower of Jesus Christ, has come forward claiming that she was fired from her position at Texas Children’s Hospital, located in the city of Houston, for revealing alleged Medicaid fraud concerning transgender procedures for underage kids. Vanessa Sivadge then stated she believes her current situation is part of a much bigger spiritual conflict unfolding in the culture today. I’d say she’s right. Clearly, dark forces at work in this world and they seem to be gunning for our children and their destruction.
“I am a Christian, and my faith is the foundation of everything,” Sivadge said during an interview with The Christian Post. “That’s the reason why I’ve spoken out as I have.”
The nurse said that TCH, her former employer, handed her a pink slip on Aug. 16 after she exposed alleged Medicaid fraud happening at the biggest children’s hospital in the nation. Sivadge claims that the facility was spending federal funds to help pay for the cost of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers being used to help minors transition, which is a violation of state law in Texas, according to a statement that was given to the outlet from journalist Christopher Rufo.
Sivadge came forward to Rufo last year to claim TCH was pushing “gender-affirming care” on young patients while ignoring their underlying psychological problems. Sivadge approached Rufo following his May 2023 story about Dr. Eithan Haim, who leaked medical records suggesting that TCH continued to prescribe puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria despite claiming otherwise. The U.S. Department of Justice slapped Haim with four felony counts in June for obtaining “personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) electronic system without authorization,” according to a DOJ press release.
Both Haim and Rufo say the patient names were blocked out from the documents that were leaked. Sivadge told Rufo in her latest statement that she made a request for a religious accommodation at the hospital on May 1, which would have resulted in her being transferred out of the endocrinology clinic, where she says she was forced to directly participate in the “care of children on cross-sex hormones.”
The nurse asked her superiors to be sent back to her core competency in the cardiology unit, where this sort of ideology wasn’t as prevalent or pushed on others.
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“This past Friday on August 16, TCH fired me effective immediately,” Sivadge went on to write. “This is unlawful for two reasons: it is retaliation for my coming forward with information on TCH’s egregious pattern of deception and Medicaid fraud, and this action also illegally disregarded my request to transfer due to my belief that these procedures bring irreversible harm and lifelong regret to children confused about their sex.”
She then pointed out her situation is a lot different from Haim’s as she has yet to face any sort of federal charges. However, Sivadge did say that she has been visited by federal law enforcement officers at her home. Several weks after Rufo published the anonymous whistleblowing from Sivadge last year, two agents with the FBI showed up on her doorstep. Footage of the encounter was published on Rufo’s X account in June.
The video shows special agents Paul Nixon and David McBride showing up at Sivadge’s home while sporting blue jeans and telling her they wanted to speak about “some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately.” They quipped they hoped they were not “interrupting dinner.” Sivadge told CP she never could have imagined that the federal government would ever go after her, and she believes federal law enforcement has been politically weaponized.
“I never thought that [my identity] would come to light, and that I would be ultimately visited by the federal government, wanting to intimidate me into silence,” she explained. “And so I think that instead of investigating medical institutions and organizations — in my case, a hospital — for wrongdoing and for illegal activity, the federal government was weaponized to come after people exposing crime and whistleblowers like me.”
“And so that’s egregious. It’s something I never imagined in a million years would happen to me,” she continued. The nurses also stated she’s afraid that with federal agencies being used as political weapons against anyone who doesn’t get with the progressive agenda being pushed by extreme left-wingers within the government, Christians will continue to be targeted, especially if Vice President Kamala Harris gets elected to the White House.
“I believe that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against people of faith and people who expose wrongdoing and illegal activity — not just in my case, but in many others,” she told the outlet. “And so I am deeply concerned that if she gets elected, nothing will change in that regard.”
Sivadge believes that her case is an example of spiritual warfare.
“Ephesians 5 says to have nothing to do with the worthless deeds of evil and darkness but instead expose them, and that everything exposed by the light becomes visible,” Sivadge said in her conversation with CP. “So that was really the foundation and the motivation for me to do what I’ve done, to speak out like I have. Because we have, I believe, a responsibility as Christians to bring to light what’s been done in the darkness.”
Despite the trials and tribulations she’s currently facing, Sivadge has felt that God was with her every step of the way.
“Not just that, but I’ve felt tremendous support from the people of God,” she said, adding that “people in the community who have reached out, have sent so many messages, have donated to my GiveSendGo, have ultimately made me feel like I’m doing the right thing, no matter what comes down the pike.” “And that’s ultimately the greatest encouragement that I receive, is from people who have donated and who have prayed for me,” she added.
The GiveSendGo has managed to raise a whopping $50,000 of its goal of $500,000 goal as of Monday morning.