Vanessa Sivadge with Catherine Herridge (video clipping)

August 09, 2026 – Texas Children’s Hospital nurse and whistleblower Vanessa Sivadge speaks about Medicaid fraud linked to gender affirming treatment for minors

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Texas Children’s Hospital Nurse Vanessa Sivadge Speaks For The First Time Since Historic $10 Million Settlement After Blowing The Whistle on Alleged Medicaid Fraud Linked to “Gender-Affirming” Treatments on Minors @V_Sivadge was the principal government witness in the False Claims Act case that forced a landmark $10 million settlement.

In this exclusive, first interview, Sivadge details the alleged multi-layered Medicaid fraud used to fund gender-affirming treatments on minors, details the FBI showing up to her home under the Biden DOJ, and reacts to the hospital’s agreement to open America’s first hospital-funded detransition clinic.

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Vanessa’s attorney Marcella Burke calls it a “watershed” settlement that sets a national precedent. TX AG Ken Paxton: “This settlement sends an unmistakable message: if you put radical ideology over children’s health, my office will go after you. We will continue to lead the way in stopping the far-left’s radical gender agenda.”

Justice Department Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward: “The Department of Justice is committed to protecting America’s children. Today’s resolution furthers that commitment and puts providers of so-called ‘gender affirming care’ on notice that this Department will vigorously enforce federal law where children are put at risk.”

Texas Children’s Hospital: “Last week we finalized a settlement agreement with the Texas Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice bringing a close to this chapter to focus our resources on life-saving care and discoveries. We are grateful for and proud of our renowned physicians and nurses whose clinical excellence makes us the nation’s leading pediatric and women’s health system. Our focus remains on creating a healthier future for children and women across Texas and the world.”

02:05 Sivadge: “I was the government witness…In this this false claims act case against TX Children’s Hospital”
02:58 How alleged fraud with taxpayer dollars worked 03:30 Sivadge: “…a 15 year old girl had a testosterone deficiency and a boy had an estrogen deficiency…”
04:30 Vindicated: “I didn’t know if I would end up in jail …our faith carried us through..”
05:48 Lawyer Marcella Burke: “Monumental settlement,” detransitioners clinic, doctors fired 07:22 Sivadge: “…I would be facing prison under a Kamala Harris presidency.”
07:44 Sivadge: “FBI came to my door and they told me that if I did not collaborate with them, that they could not protect me and that my safety and my career were at risk.”
10:25 Lawyer: Texas Children’s claimed they were not performing gender affirming services
11:24 Sivadge: “I think the biggest risk of all is that children, their reproductive sexual health is utterly destroyed.”
12:10 What was driving this? Parents, Kids, Doctors…
13:10 Alleged fraud with Medicaid Dollars, low income families “suicide or treatment, suicide or surgery”
14:48 In the settlement, does Texas Children’s Hospital admit fault?
15:50 Did any doctors lose their licenses?
16:14 Sivadge: I was fired after going to journalist @christopherrufo17:12 Cost of coming forward
17:57 Sivadge: “The institution that once sanctioned the harm of these kids is now reversing course and offering them help.”
18:55 Sivadge: “I think this is the type of story only God can write…”
19:29 Sivadge: “I’m a nurse and I believe in biological truth…this is me trusting the science.
19:57 Burke: “It is setting a precedent within the Department of Justice as they move to settle these cases across the country.”

Texas Children’s Hospital nurse Vanessa Sivadge deserved justice. I remember the video of the FBI showing up at her door. It was horrific! I didn’t know what country I was living in.

AG Merrick Garland’s DOJ was the most lawless admin in history. This pattern—weaponizing federal law enforcement against parents and medical professionals who challenged the “official” view on gender ideology—was pure authoritarianism.

Garland directed the FBI to investigate parents who spoke out at school board meetings against the LGBT curriculum as “domestic terrorists.” And targeted Sivadge after she blew the whistle on Medicaid fraud connected to “gender-affirming” care for adolescents.

The DOJ’s clear objective was to chill dissent and FORCE acceptance of medicalized gender transitions for minors.

Both situations were a textbook ABUSE OF POWER. Democrats and their media sycophants still refuse to acknowledge it.

h/t Not the Bee, 8/11/2026