The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is investigating “an important pediatric teaching hospital” about the alleged dismissal of a nurse who sought a religious exemption to avoid administering puberty blockers and intermediaries to children.
“The department will comply with robust and federal laws that protect the complainants of thesis values, including laws that protect health professionals from being forced to violate their religious beliefs or moral convictions,” HHS interim.
Although HHS has not confirmed the identity of the hospital, it is believed to be the Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), the largest children’s hospital in the United States, since the investigation follows the Whistlebower Vanessa Sivadge Hill nurse. Sivadge appeared publicly for the first time in June 2024 and was then fired in August 2024.
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Sivadge told legislators that he had witnessed “disturbing trends and practices related to the treatment of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria. He also said that” he observed the powerful and irreversible effects “of the treatments that patients were told that they were” saving lives. ”
“I was a first -hand witness of how doctors emotionally blackmailed the parents in telling them that if they do not claim the false identity of their son, their son would damage the issues. In particular, I was sad. The mental girls of the girls and the intention of and for an anxiety, many of whom had also suffered sexual abuse or traum hormone, which solves its gender.
Dr. Eithan Haim speaks with the media after requesting a position reading audience on Monday, June 17, 2024 in Houston. Haim, who calls him a complainant of transgender care for minors who has been accused of federal positions of illegally obtaining private information about patients who were not under his care, with the intention of causing harm to the largest pediatric hospital in the nation. He declared himself innocent. (Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle through Getty Images)
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Dr. Eithan Haim, accused of raping Hipa while he was in surgical training in Baylor College of Medicine, who is affiliated with TCH, also blew the whistle in the hospital for “lying about the existence of his transgender program.” The Biden Department of Justice presented charges against Haim for the alleged violations of Hipaa, but the case was withdrawn under the Trump administration.
Haim said the hospital was participating in fraudulent billing practices to hide the fact that it was carrying out transgender procedures on minors just even against Texas law. This included registering mastectomies such as “breast reduction” surgeries and task billing prescribed to a teenage girl under a male diagnosis.
The HHS memorandum reminds hospitals and suppliers about Trump policies that prohibit child mutilation. (Getty images)
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In his testimony, Sivadge said federal agents arrived at their home by investigating the complainant, now known for being Haim, due to their objections to transgender medicine. She described the interaction as intimidating and said that one of the special agents “effective asked me to compromise my Christian beliefs and made auctioned threats regarding my career and security if I did it fulfilling their demands.”
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According to the complaint, TCH “temporarily” stopped “services that affirm the genre” for minors after Texas Attorney Ken Paxton said in February 2022 that these treatments could constitute child abuse. The treatments were prohibited in the State after the approval of a bill in May 2023, which is customary to validity in September 2023. According to Sivadge’s lawyer, he asked to transfer it back to Cardiology in May 2024, citing his religious.
Sivadge publicly flew the whistle on TCH on June 18, 2024, and should not inform work the next day, according to the complaint. Only a few days later, on June 21, he was commissioned administrative and was officially fired in August 2024. TCH alleged that the termination of his employment was due to improper access to medical records.
On January 28, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the order to “protect children from chemical and surgical mutilation”, which prevents minors from undergoing transgender treatments. According to this order, HHS has issued guidelines for possible complainants.
Fox News has communicated with TCH and HHS to comment.
